Auckland 1995
 
The Sheraton Hotel, Auckland
30 August - 1 September 1995

Session 1: Keynote Address
Chairman:  Graham Rowe

‘Recent Bridging Achievements’
Michel Virlogeux, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France

Session 2:  New Zealand Bridges
Chairman:  Rob Irwin

1     ‘The Otira Viaduct Design Concepts’
       Ian Billings – Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner

2     ‘Design and Construction of the Pukaki Creek Bridge’
       Peter Lipscombe – Woodward-Clyde (NZ) Ltd; Andrei Vadnjal – Fletcher Construction Ltd

3     ‘Thorndon Overbridge Seismic Retrofit’
       Alan Powell – Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner Ltd

Session 3:  Design & Retrofit Innovations
Chairman:  Gavin Cormack

1     ‘Composites for Civil Structures and their Application Internationally’
       Edward Fyfe – Hexel Fyfe Co, USA; Rob Irwin – Contech Group Ltd; Ronald Watson – R J Watson INC, USA

2     ‘Case Histories of a Sliding Isolation System’
       Ronald J Watson / Paul F Bradford – R J Watson Inc, USA

3     ‘External Prestressing’
       Michel Virlogeux – Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France

Session 4: Concrete Briefs
Chairman: Des Bull

1     ‘Innovative Precast Flooring Systems for the Museum of New Zealand’
       Brian Griffin – Firth Industries

2     ‘The Use of Precast Concrete in the Mangere SH20/20A Motorway Extensions’
       Chris Mackenzie – Holmes Consulting Group Ltd

3     ‘The Use of Prestressed Concrete in Building Structures in Japan’
       Minehiro Nishiyama / Fumio Watanabe / Hiroshi Muguruma – Kyoto University, Japan

Session 5: Feature Session
Chairman:  Ernst Sansom

1     ‘Behaviour of Buildings during the Great Hanshin Earthquake’
       Fumio Watanabe – Kyoto University, Japan

2     ‘Behaviour of Bridges during the Kobe Earthquake’
       Bob Park – University of Canterbury
      
Session 6: New Zealand Buildings
Chairman:  Wayne Raymond

1     ‘Design of Sky Tower – New Zealand’s Tallest Structure’
       Rob Jury / Dale Turkington – Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner Ltd

2     ‘Construction of the Sky Tower’
       Warren Hollings – Fletcher Construction South Pacific & NZ Ltd

3     ‘Observatory Hotel – Queenstown – Precast Concrete as Far as the Eye can See’
       Adrian Jones – Holmes Consulting Group

Session 7: High Strength Materials
Chairman:  Len McSaveney

1     ‘High Strength Concrete in Buildings’
       Des Bull – University of Canterbury / Cement & Concrete Association

2a    ‘Use of High Strength Reinforcing Steel in Japan’
       Hiroshi Muguruma / Fumio Watanabe / Minehiro Nishiyama – Kyoto University, Japan

2b    ‘Opportunities in New Zealand for High Strength Reinforcing Steel’
       Bob Park – University of Canterbury

3     ‘Application of High Strength Concrete in Cantilever Bridge Construction’
       Eddie Koenders / Cornelis van der Veen / Niek Kaptijn – Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Session 8: Concrete Briefs
Chairman:  Bob Park

1     ‘Cracking in Hardening Concrete due to Temperature Effects’
       Eddie Koenders / Sander Lokhorst / K van Breugel – Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

2     ‘Dynamic Visualisation of Reinforced Concrete Structures under Severe Earthquake Motions’
       Shoji Ikeda / Takahiro Yamaguchi – Yokohama National University, Japan

3     ‘Precast Concrete – Simple Connections’
       Grant Wilkinson – Holmes Consulting Group Ltd

DISCLAIMER:  Please note conference papers are checked by the Conference Organising Committee for overt commercialism only, the papers have not been peer reviewed. Technical accuracy is the responsibility of the authors involved.