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When L’Rey Renata was 15, she was inspired by a humanitarian engineer on YouTube who took technology and innovation back to their village in India to improve the lives of their community.
When L’Rey Renata was 15, she was inspired by a humanitarian engineer on YouTube who took technology and innovation back to their village in India to improve the lives of their community.
“I realised that’s what I wanted to do, to serve people with innovation, strive to make things better,” says the Emerging Professional Member of Engineering New Zealand. “None of my family had been to university at the time. I wondered, what would it take to become that, and what was the pathway.”
Now a water engineer at GHD, she says she realised at university that there was very little recognition of Te Ao Māori.
“There are dedicated papers in law, medicine and education regarding Māoritanga and Treaty obligations, but it’s absent in engineering studies.”
In an effort to right this, she’s completing a PhD in reevaluating engineering best practice through an indigenous Te Ao Māori lens.
“I realised that’s what I wanted to do, to serve people with innovation, strive to make things better,” says the Emerging Professional Member of Engineering New Zealand. “None of my family had been to university at the time. I wondered, what would it take to become that, and what was the pathway.”
Now a water engineer at GHD, she says she realised at university that there was very little recognition of Te Ao Māori.
“There are dedicated papers in law, medicine and education regarding Māoritanga and Treaty obligations, but it’s absent in engineering studies.”
In an effort to right this, she’s completing a PhD in reevaluating engineering best practice through an indigenous Te Ao Māori lens.
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GHD es una empresa líder en servicios profesionales que opera en los mercados mundiales de agua, energía y recursos, medio ambiente, infraestructura y edificaciones, y transporte. Comprometidos con la visión de garantizar que el agua, la energía y las comunidades sean sostenibles para las futuras generaciones, GHD ofrece soluciones en consultoría, servicios digitales, ingeniería, arquitectura, medio ambiente y construcción a clientes del sector público y privado. Fundada en 1928 y propiedad de sus trabajadores, GHD cuenta con una red de más de 12.000 profesionales en más de 160 oficinas en cinco continentes.