Taupo 2014
 
Wairakei Resort, Taupo
9 - 11 October 2014

Session 1:
Chairman:  Jeff Matthews

1       KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
         ‘The History and Achievements of the NZ Concrete Society’
         Gavin Cormack – Beca Group

2       KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
         ‘Conceptual Design and Innovative Structural Concepts to Produce Sound Concrete Structures’
         Hugo Corres Peiretti – Technical University of Madrid (Spain)

3       ‘Manufacture of Precast Components for the Waterview Connection Project’
         Bob Mawdsley / Andrew Bould – McConnell Dowell Constructors Ltd; Daniel Wilson – Wilson Tunnelling Ltd

Session 2: 
Chairman: Nic Brooke

1       ‘Precast Concrete Connections for Accelerated Bridge Construction in Regions of High Seismicity’
         Samuel White – Opus International Consultants; Mustafa Mashal / Alessandro Palermo – University of Canterbury

2       ‘History of Concrete Bridges in New Zealand’
         Jamil Khan / Geoff Brown – Beca Group

3       ‘Testing Support Connections of 400 Deep Hollow-Core Precast Concrete Floors’
         Samuel Corney / Richard Henry / Jason Ingham – University of Auckland

4       ‘Construction of the New Rangitoto Island Wharf’
         Brendon Pickerill – Downer NZ Ltd

Session 2A:  NZRMCA Session
Chairman: Jeff Burgess

1       ‘Marsden Refinery Mass Pour – Failure is Not an Option’
         Blair Macfarlane – Allied Concrete

Session 3:
Chairman:  Jason Ingham

1     KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
       ‘The Exciting First Day in the Life of Concrete: Chemical and Physical Processes at the Micro-Level Drive Macro-Level Construction Operations’ OR ‘Wild Things are Happening’
       Kenneth Hover / J Abel – Cornell University USA; R Pinto – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

2     ‘Preliminary Assessment of the Influence of Accelerated Curing on Concrete Quality’
       Allan Scott / Samia Ali – University of Canterbury; Jeff Matthews / Des Bull – Holmes Consulting Group; James Mackechnie – Allied Concrete; Dene Cook – Fletcher Building Concrete Division

3     ‘An Aggregation of Associations, Or Six Into One Does Go’
       Rob Gaimster – CCANZ; Bob Officer – Allied Concrete Ltd; Carl Ashby – Opus International Consultants

4     ‘South Rangitikei Railway Bridge: Construction Engineering’
       Graham Frost – Fletcher Construction Company; Clive Tilby – Spartan Construction Group

Session 4:
Chairman:  Rod Fulford

1     ‘The Memorial Park Alliance: A Roading Project to Remember Those Who Served at War’
       James Lake – HEB Construction

2     ‘The Effects of Axial Restraint in Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams’
       Richard Malcolm / Richard Henry / Jason Ingham – University of Auckland; Des Bull – Holmes Consulting Group

3     ‘Designing for Construction in a Third-World Nation: Kookaburra Street Viaduct, Papua New Guinea’
       Charanjit Singh / Moustafa Al-Ani / Peter Wiles – Opus International Consultants 

4     ‘Use of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) Reinforcing Bars for Concrete Bridge Decks’
       Victoria Worner – Opus International Consultants/University of Canterbury; Alessandro Palermo – University of Canterbury

5     ‘The Fox and Ngakawau River Bridges: Are 1980s Pre-Stressed Beams Capable of Fulfilling their Design Life under Aggressive Marine Environments?’
       Neil Lee – Opus International Consultants

Session 4A:  NZRMCA Session
Chairman:  Scott Williams

1     ‘Architectural Concrete Finishes’
       Ralf Kessel - CCANZ

2     ‘The Concrete Houses of James Thomas Douce’
       Morten Gjerde / Jennifer Gainsford – Victoria University of Wellington

3     ‘Colour for Concrete – A Rich History and an Exciting Future’
       Cameron Greig – Peter Fell Ltd; Grant Wakefield – Lanxess Australia

4     ‘Pinto – What We Know and What We Don’t’
       Cameron Greig – Peter Fell Ltd, Chris Munn – Allied Concrete Ltd

5     ‘The Design and Construction of the Clyde Quay Wharf Basement’
       Ryan Clarke / Adam Thornton – Dunning Thornton Consultants; Sean McGuiness – LT McGuiness

Session 5: 
Chairman:  Rhys Rogers

1     ‘Compatibility Forces in Floor Diaphragms of High Rise Buildings’
       John Scarry – John Scarry Engineering

2     ‘Precast Insulated Sandwich Panels using Self Consolidating Lightweight Pumice Concrete’
       Jamal Almulla – Wilco Precast Ltd

3     ‘Victoria Wharf Repair'
       Murray Ford – Downer NZ Ltd; Duncan Peters – Novare Design Ltd; Peter Sansom – Resolve Group Ltd; Mark Kurtovich – BBR Contech Ltd

4     ‘Out-of-Plane Behaviour of Connections Between Precast Concrete Panels and Their Foundations’
       James Burley / Richard Henry / Jason Ingham / Tautua Faitotoa / Pouya Seifi – University of Auckland

Session 5A:  NZRMCA Session
Chairman:  Brian Godfrey

1     ‘Water – Regional Councils and Water Issues’
       Rex Williams – H W Richardson Group Ltd

2     ‘Maintaining Required Workability of Self Compacting Concrete in Time’
       Michael Khrapko – CBE Consultancy Ltd

3     ‘Product Development, Appraisal and Testing of a New and Improved Drying Shrinkage Reducing Admixture for Concrete’
       Paul Macreath – BASF NZ; Hairul Sarwono / Takumi Sugamata – BASF Australia

4     ‘2700 Reasons to Confirm Tests of Fresh or Hardened Concrete’
       Kenneth Hover – Cornell University USA

Session 6:
Chairman:  Carl Ashby

1     ‘NZCS Enduring Concrete Award’
       Alex Gray – Impact Project Management; Morten Gjerde – Victoria University of Wellington; Tim Jones – Seismic Technologies Ltd

2     ‘Reducing the Maintenance Costs and Extending the Life of Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Hybrid Corrosion Protection Systems – Examples From United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand’
       Paul Tanner – Sika (NZ) Ltd; Jeff Pritchard – Duoguard Australia Pty Ltd; Nigel Davison – Concrete Preservation Technologies UK; Rob Kilgour – AECOM Australia

3     ‘Experimental Evaluation of Minimum Vertical Reinforcement Requirements for Reinforced Concrete Walls’
       Yiqiu Lu / R Gultom / Richard Henry / Quincy Ma – University of Auckland

4     ‘Christchurch’s Heroic Period:  Discussing the City’s Important Concrete Crchitecture of the 1950s to 1980s’
       Morten Gjerde – Victoria University of Wellington

5     ‘Amendment 3 to NZS 3101’
       Dene Cook – Fletcher Building Infrastructure Division; Richard Fenwick – University of Canterbury; Alistair Russell – Cement & Concrete Association of NZ

6     ‘Strategies Used to Strengthen Several Older Concrete Buildings in Wellington Using Techniques Used on Huddart Parker, Xero and Shed 39 Buildings’
       Adam Thornton / Alistair Cattanach / Nicki Vance / Heshan Dantanarayana – Dunning Thornton Consultants

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