ADR and collaborative contracting practitioner advocating for anti-corruption, integrity management and modern slavery mitigation and prevention and in addition to cybercrime awareness

Andrew Read (BE (Hons) Electrical, FEngNZ, CMEngNZ, CPEng, Int PE)

Andrew is a Director of Pedersen Read Ltd, a consulting electrical engineering firm based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Andrew is Chair of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC)’s Business Practice Committee and is a Board Member of CEAS, a risk and liability advisor to the consulting engineering sector.

He is a past board member, past president, and an Honorary Life Member of the Association of Consulting and Engineering New Zealand (ACE NZ)); ACE NZ Awards judge and past convenor of judges; past member and past Deputy Chair of the Chartered Professional Engineers’ Council of New Zealand; and past board member and past President of Engineering New Zealand. Andrew is a Fellow and Chartered Member of Engineering New Zealand, a New Zealand Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) and has been a consulting engineer for 35 years.

International professional engineer (IntPE), chartered engineer (CEng, CMarEng, and CMEngNZ) and European engineer (EUR ING) with 40 years experience in international engineering, project and contract management, project troubleshooting and technical audit. Experience is predominantly in emergency relief, remote locations, fragile states, emerging markets (in particular South, South East, Central Asia and Middle East, also Europe and Africa).

SPCastro, Inc. (SPCI), a 36 years old project management company, continually adapts to the changing times and strives to be a relevant player in the global engineering and infrastructure community. Now ready for the “next reality” post-pandemic, as it advocates and supports endeavors on climate change.

MEP Consulting Engineers is a Building Services (Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health) Consulting Engineering firm. The MEP brand is synonymous with the successful delivery, quality and reliability of building services engineering design, specification, construction, contract administration and project management. Underpinning our Business Strategy is the drive to offer Sustainable Low Energy building services with a view to playing our part towards global moves to curb the production of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide largely responsible for the adverse effects of climate change.

I am working as senior project Quantity Surveyor in a water treatment and supply project in Sri Lanka. I have 25 years total experience in Gulf GCC Country Sultanate of Oman and Sri Lanka. I am 57 years married person & father of two children and my is a Government school graduate teacher. Currently we live in Sri Lanka.

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