Life Cycle Association of New Zealand

The Committee consists of nine members who look after the day-to-day affairs of LCANZ. These are:

Dr Barbara Nebel (President)

Barbara is the Managing Director of PE Australasia. Barbara’s expertise is in Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management and works with industry and the regulatory environment to the implementation of sustainability strategies. She is experienced in working with industry in materials and product development projects. Prior to joining PE Australasia she worked for Scion, a Crown Research Institute, where she was heading the LCA team and worked for industry and government clients.
 

Peter Garrett (Secretary)

Peter Garrett is a Senior Consultant at the international consultancy firm ERM. He has a background in LCA since 1997 and practiced full-time since 2003, specialising in LCA, carbon footprinting, environmental product stewardship and verification. Peter has a broad range of sector experience, including: manufacturing; energy; waste management; construction; packaging; food & drink; automotive; and electrical. Prior to consultancy he worked for several years as a mechanical design engineer in the UK.
 

John McArthur (Treasurer)

John spent a number of years in the Pulp and Paper Industry here and in Scotland before a short career in the Public Service. With some relief he has returned to manufacturing - in composite wood panel products and decorative surfaces. His career started in Quality Control and Process Engineering, moved into Quality Management, then to Environmental Management and managing "Climate Change" response.

Alistair Mowat

An Innovation Leader at Zespri International Limited for the past 8 years, focused on a range of projects relating to fruit quality, productivity and sustainability. Previously, a scientist at HortResearch for 16 years, working on persimmon and kiwifruit physiology; including supply chain dynamics and the use of spectroscopic techniques to assess product quality.
 

Andrew Alcorn

Andrew has been engaged in LCA work since 1994. He has collected data for and developed a database of energy and CO2 for mostly building-related materials over the last 15 years. His current work is LCA of New Zealand houses, to find what a “sustainable” house is. His interests include carbon footprinting of buildings, LCA methodology, consequential LCA, weighting environmental impacts, and sustainability assessment beyond LCA.
 

Andrew Barber

Andrew Barber is director of AgriLINK NZ an engineering consultancy company. Project work includes national and sector specific energy and resource use benchmarking, optimisation and analysis studies. These projects are used by industry and government clients to develop and deliver energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) optimisation strategies, and to understand potential trade, economic, marketing, and environmental impacts. Recent projects include GHG footprinting for the shipping, wine, kiwifruit, pipfruit, onion, sheep and beef and dairy sectors.
 

Gael Ogilvie

Gael Ogilvie is a Senior Principal with URS New Zealand and has more than 25 years’ experience in environmental investigations and reporting. Gael has a M.Sc in zoology from the University of Alberta and has been carrying out Life Cycle Assessments since the early 1990s.This has included work in the pharmaceuticals, building, manufacturing, construction and transport sectors. Over recent years Gael has been involved in development of government policy (for example product stewardship) based on LCA evaluations.
 

Jake McLaren

Jake is an environmental management consultant with 15 yrs experience in the areas of Life Cycle Management, Life Cycle Assessment and Design for Environment. He has conducted LCA and energy studies in sectors including; electronics, manufacturing and building materials. Recently in New Zealand he has worked with Formway Furniture, Locus Research, Landcare Research and for central Government agencies. His background includes several years leading the implementation of environmental technology programmes at Nokia Multimedia.
 

Dr Sarah McLaren

Sarah works with businesses and government to integrate life cycle thinking into company management practices, product design, and policymaking. She was previously Director of the postgraduate Environmental Life Cycle Management Programme, University of Surrey, UK; and Chair of the SETAC Europe LCA Steering Group. More recently, as Research Leader at Landcare Research, Sarah has led the Life Cycle Management Project for the manufacturing sector in New Zealand, and carbon footprinting projects for the horticultural sector.
 

The Committee is elected at every second Annual General Meeting from and by the members of the Association. In addition to these, Tim Strange from the Ministry for Economic Development attends Committee meetings in order to assist communication between the New Zealand Government and LCANZ.