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Stacey Victoria Mendonca MNZM is a New Zealand quantity surveyor and estimator. Mendonca co-founded the New Zealand chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction in 1996. In 2023 Mendonca was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to women.
Mendonca is a quantity surveyor and estimator at Newcrest Construction. [1] She has previously worked for Fletcher Construction. [2]
Mendonca was one of three founders of the New Zealand chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), which provides support to women in the construction sector. [3] They established NAWIC in 1996 as a single branch in Wellington, and expanded it to eight branches with more than 1600 members. [3] [4] Mendonca was the inaugural president of the organisation, and took up the role again in 2019. [5] After stepping down as president in 2021, she continues to run the annual NAWIC Annual Excellence Awards. [3] [6] Mendonca also established a mentoring programme for women called Connecting-in-Construction, to combat isolation, and ran webinars during the COVID-19 lockdowns. [4]
In 2001 Mendonca was awarded the NAWIC Lifetime Award. [3] In the 2023 King's Birthday and Coronation Honours Mendonca was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to women. [3] [7] Mendonca was awarded the 2023 Diversity Champion Award by Diversity Works NZ, a national organisation promoting workplace diversity, equity and inclusion. [4]
Mendonca is married to Mike Mendonca, who was chief resilience officer and acting chief infrastructure officer at Wellington City Council until his resignation in 2021. [8]
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