Congratulations to Andy Buchanan, elected Distinguished Fellow of IPENZ at the recent Fellows and Achievers Dinner in March 2011.
Andrew Buchanan is already a Fellow of SFPE and was elected a Distinguished Fellow of IPENZ for his eminent contribution to the advancement of engineering knowledge and education. Andrew has made outstanding achievements in moving research into practice in the fields of fire engineering and timber engineering. Throughout his career he has worked on problems of direct interest to building practitioners, improving the quality of construction in New Zealand. He was responsible for introducing fire engineering to New Zealand as a formal qualification and serves on the editorial boards of three fire engineering publications. He was awarded the Queens Service Medal for Public Service in 2002 recognising this work.
He is currently the Research Director of the research consortium for timber engineering, which is developing new methods for multi-storey buildings using pre-stressed timber frames and walls.