Congratulations to Terry Kayes for his Queens’s Birthday award for services to the engineering industry.

Kayes has been involved in New Zealand’s infrastructure and built environment sector for more than 40 years.

He was the managing director of Tonkin and Taylor from 1989 to 2006, where he grew the company’s revenue from NZD4 million to NZD40 million, and quintupled staff numbers. The company was one of the first consultancies in New Zealand to recognise the importance of environmental issues, and Kayes transformed it from a specialist geotechnical consultancy into an environmental and engineering consultancy. He was a Board member of the Consulting Engineers Advancement Society (CEAS) from 1982 until 2019 and the director of the Auckland Waterfront Development Agency Ltd. for five years, where he helped to guide the sustainable urban regeneration of the Wynyard Quarter. He was also a member of the University of Auckland’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Advisory Board for eighteen years. He is an Honorary Life Member of the Consulting Engineers Advancement Society and received the Turner Award from Engineering New Zealand for extraordinary commitment to the engineering profession and the community in 2007. Kayes was also the Honorary Consul for Malaysia in New Zealand between 1997 and 2006.