Wellington 2017

Te Papa, Wellington
12 – 14 October 2017

Session 1:
Chairman: James Mackechnie

1       KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
         'Tuning the Structural Engineering Mind in Creative Ways '
         Peter Laursen — California Polytechnic State University, USA 

2       KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
         ‘Challenges and Progress toward the Assessment of Residual Capacity for Earthquake-Damaged Concrete Buildings’
         Kenneth Elwood / Kai Marder/ Charles Clifton — University of Auckland

3       ‘Wellington International Airport Multi-Level Carpark — Concrete Raft Slab Construction’
         Carl Ashby / Andrew Davidson — Opus international Consultants; Callum Sutherland / Rob Taggart — Fletcher Construction Company

Session 2: 
Chairman: Rod Fulford

1       ‘Damage to Buildings with Precast Concrete Floors During the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake and Implications to Design and Seismic Assessment’
         Richard Henry / S Convey / D Dizhur/ Ken Elwood — University of Auckland; Dave Brunsdon — Kestrel Group

2       'Damage Assessment of Concrete Road Bridges during the Kaikoura Earthquake 2016'
         Adnan Rais / Royce Liu /Alessandro Palermo — University of Canterbury 

3       'Christchurch Town Hall — Post-earthquake Repair and Strengthening Project'
         Mark Browne / Gareth Morris /John Hare Holmes Consulting 

4       'The Textile Centre Seismic Strengthening — Innovative Techniques to Minimise the Impacts on an Historic Structure'
         Niraj Ranjit / Rhys Rogers / Smith — BBR Contech; S Khatiwada - PRENDOS

Session 2A:  NZRMCA Session
Chairman: Paul Donoghue

1       'Structural Application of Steel Fibres Reinforced Concrete with and without Conventional Reinforcement'
         Tian Sing Ng — BOSFA Pty Ltd; Trevor Nyan Soe Htut — Curtin University Australia

Session 3:
Chairman:  Rick Henry

1      Keynote Presentation: ‘Aesthetic Evaluation of Concrete Structures on the Mackays to Peka Peka Expressway’
        Andrew Charleson - Victoria University of Wellington

2       ‘Effective Use of Concrete to Achieve the Desired High Quality Urban Design Outcomes for the Mackays to Peka Peka Expressway Project’
         Jamil Khan/Geoff Brown — Beca Ltd; Frazer Baggaley— Boffa Miskell; Craig Service — Fletcher Construction; Alistair Bennett — Firth Concrete Ltd

3       ‘Concrete in Passive Houses — A Holistic Approach to Residential Living’
         Ralf Kessel — Concrete New Zealand Inc

4       ‘University of Waikato — Law and Management Faculty’
         Hendrik Vermeulen; Bruce Curtain — Opus International Consultants

Session 4:
Chairman:  Alessandro Palermo

1       ‘Reinforced Concrete Wall Boundary Element Prism Testing’
         Holly Wright— University of Auckland

2       ‘Experimental Testing of the Next Generation of Low Damage Rocking Bridge Piers’
         Royce Liu / Alessandro Palermo — University of Canterbury

3       ‘Fibre Optic Relative Humidity Sensors for Use in Concrete Structures’
         Sebastiampillai Raymond / Yaodong Jia / A J Swanson / S Janssens / D Carder / D Bogunovic / J Schuyt — Callaghan Innovation

4       ‘Use of Toothed Anchor Channels in seismic regions’
         Andreas Boomkamp Ancon Building Products

5       ‘Towards an Electronic Ephemera: Exploring atmosphere and architectural space in virtual engines’
         Eliot Blenkame — Victoria University of Wellington


Session 4A:  NZRMCA Session
Chairman:  Paul Donoghue

1       ‘Workforce Diversity in the Concrete Sector: Challenge or Opportunity? The Choice is Yours’
         Jenny Connor/ Mark Williams / Greg Durkin — BCITO

2       ‘A Case Study Of Alkali-Silica Reaction in Concrete (involving very reactive siliceous glass) using Petrographic Techniques’
         Ken Spring / Heather Spring / Thomas Spring — Geo:thempet Services

3       ‘Playing with Concrete’
         Brenda Vale /Robert Vale — Victoria University of Wellington

4       ‘3D Printing of Concrete: Opportunities and Challenges’
         Yaodong Jia / Conrad Lendrum — Callaghan Innovation

5       'NZRMCA Health & Safety Forum: The Outcomes'
         Brian Godfrey / Kyle Earpshaw — Allied Concrete Ltd

Session 5:
Chairman:  Rhys Rogers

1       ‘Auckland's Big Push’
         Edward Ayre — McConnell Dowell Constructors Ltd / Dane Cook — Firth Humes Group

2       ‘Joint Design and Management in Industrial Floors’
         Andrew Coumaros - RamsetReid

3       ‘Examples of Creative Solutions in Recent Concrete Bridge Construction’
         Peter Laursen — California Polytechnic State University USA

4       ‘Wigram-Magdala Link Bridge — the First New Zealand Bridge with Low-Damage Ductile-Jointed Bridge Piers’
         Peter Routledge / Michael Cowan / Victoria „Womer Opus International ,Consultants; Alessandro Palermo — University of Canterbury

Session 5A:
Chairman:  Joe Gamman

1       ‘To the Next Level: New Cement Finally Brings the Advantages of Pozzolans to the NZ Construction Industry’
         Cameron Greig — HR Cement Limited

2       ‘The Design and Construction of the Rototuna Reservoir Post Tensioned Floor Slab on Grade’
         David Sharp — Grouting Services; Dave Godfrey — Hawkins Infrastructure; Tim Peters — EDGE Consulting Engineers

3       ‘The Kirkbride Road Interchange’
         Sheena Chen / Ron King — Beca Ltd 

4       ‘Investigation on the Properties of Magnesium-based Cement as for Concrete Repairing’
         Nan Yang /Allan Scott / Matthew Watson / Rajesh Dhaka' / Hung Tran University of Canterbury; Caijun Shi - Hunan University China

Session 6:
Chairman:  Jeff Matthews

1       ‘Watercare Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant BNR Upgrade’
         Blair Davidson / Chris Lenssen — Holmes Consulting LP; Colin Newbold— MCD-HEB Joint Venture; Sven Harfos Watercare

2       ‘KiwiRail Southdown Project — Replacement of Road 35’
         Andrew Dallas — Conslab / Benjamin Browne - Novare Design

3       ‘Hardened Concrete Performance Guidelines for Construction Projects in New Zealand’
         James Mackechnie — Allied Concrete

4       ‘Recent Testing and Design Recommendations for Precast Concrete Panel-to-Foundation Connections’
         Lucas Hogan / Rick Henry / Jason Ingham — University of Auckland

5       'Strengthening of the Majestic Centre, Wellington'
         Rob Preland / Hamish McKenzie - Holmes Consulting Group

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