As featured in the September issue of Inside Strata SCA Magazine:

Author: Joanne Barreto, SCA (NZ) President

In February 2016 SCA went international! We are proud to have founded the NZ chapter of SCA (NZ) and feel privileged to have been welcomed into the SCA family!

Having experienced firsthand the advantages of SCA across the states of Australia and attended the annual conferences for the past 3 years, with valuable guidance from the Australian parent body, I facilitated the establishment of our chapter. The aim is for SCA (NZ) to be seen as a professional body acting as an independent voice in the industry.

Having worked alongside some of the industry leaders in New Zealand and Australia for the past 18 years, I believed it was time to increase the education and professionalism across all elements of the industry. The various disciplines involved in this sector as a whole needed to evolve with the times through government lobbying, consistent practices and standards, codes of conduct, education and regulation and what better way to do it than to learn from Australia’s $1.2 trillion sector! While the New Zealand Sector is smaller, the issues we face mirror those of Oz pre-SCA.

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