Norman R. Stannard
Honorary Patron
He was Chairman of the Waikato branch is the Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand. His professional activity working on industry development support for HERA, a business organisation supporting the metals industries of New Zealand.
He brought his long professional, environmental and social responsibility experience to CHEC at the 1995 CHOGM in Auckland, becoming a member of the Governing Board and Co-Convenor of CHEC New Zealand. He has a special concern for the island Commonwealth Nations of the South-West Pacific and particularly for their students at Waikato University in his hometown, Hamilton. Now in his mid-eighties he has been appointed a Patron of CHEC and he contributes as much as he can to CHEC’s activities.
Norman Stannard grew up in north-east London and trained as a mechanical engineer. After industrial experience with a major UK engineering company, he migrated to New Zealand where he quickly became increasingly involved in professional activities in the engineering community. At a time of growing awareness of the need for working towards living within the limits of the earth’s ecosystem services in the 1980s and 90s, he was writing in engineering journals about both the need for total quality management in engineering work and the way we all had to work towards a framework for sustainability. He has been active in Engineers for Social Responsibility Inc., an independent group of engineers who consider that being knowledgeable in the field of technology means that they also have a special obligation to the public at large.