Stacey Victoria Mendonca is a New Zealand

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and estimator. Mendonca co-founded the New Zealand chapter of the

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in 1996. In 2023 Mendonca was appointed a Member of the

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for services to women.

Career

Mendonca is a quantity surveyor and estimator at Newcrest Construction. She has previously worked for

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. Mendonca was one of three founders of the New Zealand chapter of the

(NAWIC), which provides support to women in the construction sector. They established NAWIC in 1996 as a single branch in Wellington, and expanded it to eight branches with more than 1600 members. Mendonca was the inaugural president of the organisation, and took up the role again in 2019. After stepping down as president in 2021, she continues to run the annual NAWIC Annual Excellence Awards. Mendonca also established a mentoring programme for women called Connecting-in-Construction, to combat isolation, and ran webinars during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

Honours and awards

In 2001 Mendonca was awarded the NAWIC Lifetime Award. 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. Mendonca was awarded the 2023 Diversity Champion Award by Diversity Works NZ, a national organisation promoting workplace diversity, equity and inclusion.

Personal life

Mendonca is married to Mike Mendonca, who was chief resilience officer and acting chief infrastructure officer at

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until his resignation in 2021.

References

External links

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Light Lunch Webinar: Stacey Mendonça & Parke Englebretsen
', New Zealand Institute of Building, 2 November 2022, via YouTube
Bridging the Diversity Gap
podcast from New Zealand Infrastructure Commission {{DEFAULTSORT:Mendonca, Stacey Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit Construction trades workers Year of birth missing (living people) Building estimators Living people