The Learned Society has a range of seminar videos, including Precast Walls & Connections, Industrial Floors, Prestressed Concrete 101, Strut & Tie, C5 Guidelines, Concrete Materials, Assessment and Retrofit of Precast Floors and the recent Low Carbon Concrete Specification and Design, available
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The seminars are presented by experts from across academia, the concrete industry and wider construction sector, who offer up-to-date technical guidance on critical engineering issues.
LOW CARBON SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN
This seminar covers:
- Situational Context
- Cement & concrete in construction and emissions
- NZ’s carbon reduction goals and emissions budgets
- NZ concrete industry’s decarbonisation roadmap, including pathways
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCAs) and the different stages
- Materials
- Cements, Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs), pozzolans and mineral additions:
- Types, availability and other considerations
- Performance of low carbon concrete
- Recycling concrete and understanding carbonation
- Specification
- What makes a good specification?
- How to specify low carbon concrete and Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs)
- Examples of low carbon and SCM specifications
- How to use Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
- Design
- The role of designers in reducing embodied carbon
- Structural implications of low carbon concrete
- Designing Clever
- Circular design – end-of-life strategy
- Extending a structure’s design life
PRESENTERS
- Alistair Bennett, Firth Industries
- Harry Riley-Smith, Aurecon NZ
COST & ACCESS
- $196 (GST inclusive) for 3-months
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ASSESSMENT AND RETROFIT OF PRECAST FLOORS
This seminar covers:
- Key aspects of assessment of precast floors, including recent advances in understanding
- Floor performance observations from large scale testing and real-world situations
- Performance objectives for retrofit of precast floors
- Overview of retrofit techniques for precast floors
- Issues with existing retrofits
- Detailed discussion of:
- Supplementary seating
- Strongback retrofit
- Cable catch system
- Retrofits for double tee floors
PRESENTERS
- Dr Nic Brooke, Compusoft Engineering
- Dr Lucas Hogan, University of Auckland
- Frank Büker, University of Auckland
COST & ACCESS
- $196 (GST inclusive) for 3-months
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PRECAST WALLS AND CONNECTIONS
This seminar covers:
- Applications and design requirements of precast concrete structural walls
- Types of connections and design considerations
- Precast panel construction requirements, specification, and quality assurance
- Design of wall base connections in low-rise buildings
- Design of grouted connection in multi-storey buildings
- Connection worked design examples
PRESENTERS
- Dr Rick Henry, University of Auckland
- Dr Lucas Hogan, University of Auckland
- Dave McGuigan, Concrete NZ
COST & ACCESS
- $196 (GST inclusive) for 3-months
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CONCRETE MATERIALS
This seminar covers:
PRESENTERS
- Dene Cook - Firth Industries
- Dr James Mackechnie - Concrete NZ
COST & ACCESS
- $196 (GST inclusive) for 3-months
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PRESTRESSED CONCRETE 101
This seminar covers:
- Materials and prestressing technology
- Fundamentals of pre- and post-tensioned concrete members, including load balancing concepts
- Design and checks for SLS including stresses, deformation and short/long term losses
- Design and checks for ULS flexure and shear
- Worked example
PRESENTERS
- Dr Alessandro Palermo - University of Canterbury
- Dr Moustafa Al-Ani - Compusoft Engineering
COST & ACCESS
- $196 (GST inclusive) for 3-months
SEMINAR SUPPORTER
BBR Contech
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INDUSTRIAL FLOORS
This seminar covers:
- The evolution of, and latest developments in, industrial floor construction
- Common issues with the design and construction of industrial and suspended concrete floors
- Contemporary methods for assessing surface
- Demonstrations and examples of how to measure and assess surface regularity
The Concrete NZ publication, Technical Specification 01:2021 - Surface Regularity Requirements for Concrete Floors, complements the seminar.
PRESENTERS
- Martin Lincoln - Certus Consulting
- Alan Ross - Conset Construction
- Tim Walker - Conslab
COST & ACCESS
- $196 (GST inclusive) for 3-months
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STRUT & TIE
This seminar covers:
- Strut and tie modelling theory and its use to design complex regions of concrete structures
- Concepts for simple and practical strut and tie models for different concrete members
- Use of strut and tie as a tool to observed performance including failures in concrete structures
- Strut and tie design compliant with NZS 3101
- Examples of the use of strut and tie for real scenarios
PRESENTERS
- Des Bull - Holmes Consulting Group
- Dr Rick Henry – University of Auckland
COST & ACCESS
- $196 (GST inclusive) for 3-months
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ASSESSMENT OF EXISTING CONCRETE BUILDINGS USING THE REVISED C5 GUIDELINES
This seminar covers:
- Assessment philosophy and material properties/ detailing
- Approaches to determining deformation capacity
- Deformation capacity of columns, column shear strength and deformation capacity of walls
- Loss of gravity support for columns, slab-column connections and walls
- Elements containing plain round reinforcement
- Elements with deformation at a single crack
- Assessing diaphragms containing mesh reinforcement
PRESENTERS
- Dr Ken Elwood - University of Auckland
- Dr Nicholas Brooke - Compusoft Engineering
COST & ACCESS
- $294 (GST inclusive) for 3-months
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