Speakers
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Mayor of Christchurch, Hon. Lianne Dalziel
Title: Resilience
– a powerful legacy for generations to come
Hon Lianne Dalziel is serving her third term as Mayor of Christchurch after serving for 23 years in the New Zealand Parliament, (1990-2013), the last four terms as MP for Christchurch East. Lianne served as a Cabinet Minister in the fifth Labour Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Helen Clark, holding a number of portfolios, including Commerce and Small Business. Lianne chaired the Commerce Select Committee from 2008-2011.
As a result of representing an electorate that was hard hit by the earthquakes and developing a strong understanding of past-disaster environments and opportunities, Lianne was invited to serve as a representative on the UNISDR Parliamentarians Advisory Group on Disaster Risk Reduction. Lianne has become a champion of resilience, and has spoken at a number of national and international conferences on lessons learned from the experience of the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence.
Dave Brunsdon
Title: Post-earthquake Response: Are We Ready for the Next Big One?
Dave Brunsdon is a director of Kestrel Group, a consultancy that provides strategic advice on the resilience of buildings and infrastructure, and on crisis and emergency management planning. He has provided operational leadership in the responses to the Canterbury and Hurunui/ Kaikoura earthquakes and other events.
He has chaired the Ministry of Education’s Engineering Strategy Group since being involved in its establishment in 2012, and works with MBIE in providing advice to local authorities on the implementation of the new earthquake prone buildings regime. He is also Principal Adviser to the New Zealand Lifelines Council. He represents Engineering New Zealand on the World Federation of Engineering Organisation’s Committee on Disaster Risk Management.
Dave is a Distinguished Fellow of Engineering New Zealand and Life Member of both the NZ Society for Earthquake Engineering and the Structural Engineering Society of New Zealand. In 2012 he received the Minister of Civil Defence’s Silver Award in recognition of his important contribution to Civil Defence Emergency Management in the years prior to and following the Canterbury Earthquakes.
Rob Jury
Title: Designing for Uncertainty
Rob holds the position of Chief Structural Engineer at Beca and has over 40 years of experience in the assessment and design of buildings in New Zealand and internationally. His advice is often sought on all aspects of structural and earthquake engineering and he is currently advising the Government on several issues including changes to seismic design standards for New Zealand. Rob acted as a key specialist in the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission of Enquiry and was the Project Technical Group Chair for the preparation of New Zealand’s seismic assessment guidelines.
Paul Campbell
Title: NZ Low Damage Seismic Design Guidance Information
Paul is a National Technical Leader with WSP Opus based in Auckland. He has over two decades of experience. Paul is a fellow of Engineering NZ, an ex-president and life member of the Structural Engineering Society and recipient of the Maclean citation for exceptional and distinguished service to the engineering profession. Paul has spent the last decade helping implement the lessons from our recent earthquakes through projects such as this the Low Damage Seismic Design document, NZS1170.5 amendment 2 committee member and the “Economic Benefits of Code Compliant Non-Structural Elements in New Buildings” report.
Misko Cubrinovski
Title: Evaluation of seismic performance of buildings and infrastructure
Misko is a Professor of Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering at the University of Canterbury. He holds a BSc degree in Civil Engineering, MSc degree in Earthquake Engineering, and a PhD degree in Geotechnical Engineering (University of Tokyo,1993). His career involves 37 years of work in the academia and the profession including seven years in Macedonia, 15 years in Japan, and 15 years in New Zealand.
His research interests and expertise are in geotechnical earthquake engineering and in particular problems associated with liquefaction, seismic response of earth structures and soil-structure interaction. Misko is the lead author of two modules of the guidelines for Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Practice in New Zealand. He is a Faculty Member of the Rose School, Pavia, Italy, and Fellow of the University of Tokyo. Misko is the current chair of the International Technical Committee on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (TC203 of ISSMGE).
Ken Elwood
Ken received his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995, and BASc from the University of British Columbia in 1993. He is a registered Professsional Engineer in British Columbia, Canada.
Ken is a member of several national and international code committees including the American Concrete Instititute Building Code (ACI 318). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) and a member of the Management Committee of New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering.
Matt Gerstenberger
Matt is a Principal Scientist and Seismologist at GNS Science. He has been at GNS Science since 1996 and currently leads the 2022 National Seismic Hazard Model Revision Project. His research interests have centred on developing improved methods for modelling seismic hazard. He has a particular interest in understanding how to better quantify and reduce the uncertainty in seismic hazard source models; this includes developing methods for testing the skill of the models. In the last decade has led the earthquake forecasting efforts and the development of time-dependent hazard models in response to the Canterbury and Kaikoura Earthquake Sequences. He obtained his PhD in seismology from ETH-Zurich in 2003.
Tim Grafton
He is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors and holds several governance roles. He is on the Executive Committee of the Global Federation of Insurance Associations, Chairs the Code Compliance Committee of the Fair Insurance Code, is the former Chair of the Representative Users Group of the Deep South Science Challenge which focuses on research to adapt to climate change, and is on the New Zealand Advisory Board of the Australia and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance and the Advisory Board of Victoria University, Wellington’s Chair in the Economics of Disasters.
Rick Henry
Rick is a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland where he teaches the design of concrete structures. His research interests include the seismic design and assessment of reinforced concrete structures and in particular precast concrete construction and low-damage design. Rick is co-lead for the ‘Whole-of-building seismic performacne disipline theme in QuakeCoRE. Rick is also a council member of the Concrete NZ – Learned Society, has served as a member of the technical committee for the NZ Concrete Structures Standard (NZS 3101:2006), and is a peer reviewer for the low-damage seismic design guidelines currently under development.
Lucas Hogan
Lucas Hogan is a lecturer at the University of Auckland Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. His research is focused primarily on the seismic performance of existing buildings and bridges. He has extensive experience with in situ testing of large scale structures including buildings, bridges, and pile foundations. He also has experience with post-earthquake reconnaissance following both the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence and the Kaikōura Earthquake.
Mark Homewood
Mark Homewood is the Manager Asset Planning and Delivery, Facilities Management for the University of Canterbury. Capital Works contributes to the well-being and development of the University of Canterbury by planning, designing, and managing projects for its buildings and infrastructure. Mark has been with the University since 2013, where he oversaw the earthquake remediation of existing building and new building projects, including the Regional Science and Innovation Centre.
Nick Horspool
Nick Horspool is a Senior Risk Scientist at GNS Science. Nick joined GNS in 2014 and works on developing natural hazard risk models to quantify the impact natural hazards have on communities. He has a background in seismology and prior to joining GNS, Nick worked for Geoscience Australia, an Australian Government agency, on disaster risk management projects across the Asia-Pacific region. Nick has previously held positions on the NZSEE Management Committee and the QuakeCoRE Leadership Team.
David Johnston
David Johnston is the Professor of Disaster Management and Director of the Joint Centre for Disaster Research, in the School of Psychology at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. Formerly a Principal Scientist at GNS Science, where he worked for 25 years (1993-2018). Currently he is the Deputy Director of the multi-institutional QuakeCoRE research programme in New Zealand. His research has developed as part of multi-disciplinary theoretical and applied research programme, involving the collaboration of physical and social scientists from several organisations and countries. His research focuses on human responses to earthquake, tsunami, and weather warnings, crisis decision-making and the role of public education and participation in building community resilience and recovery.
Anna Kaiser
Anna is a Senior Seismologist at GNS Science. Her science activities are focussed on earthquake ground motions, in particular local ground motion effects. Over the past decade, she has also been heavily involved in earthquake response to damaging events. She is currently co-leading the Wellington Basin project under the National Seismic Hazard Model programme and is representing the NSHM team.
Mike Mendonca
Mike Mendonça MBE is Wellington City’s Head of Resilience.
In his role, Mike is responsible for Wellington City’s civil defence, resilient buildings and infrastructure systems, as well as leading the City’s delivery of the Resilience Strategy. In his role, Mike leads the City’s efforts to reduce risk, and to respond to and recover from disruptions.
A graduate of Canterbury and Massey Universities, with a background in local and national government, experience at Deloitte and in the New Zealand Army, Mike brings a broad range of experience to the role.
Mike is married with two adult sons, and in his spare time he can be found fishing off Wellington’s west coast.
Stuart Oliver
Stuart is a Technical Development Director at Holmes Consulting in Christchurch. He has over 20 years of structural engineering experience working in New Zealand, Europe and California. Stuart was a lead author of the MBIE technical guidelines on Seismic assessment of existing buildings and has assisted with the development of similar documents in North America and Europe. Stuart’s professional interests include performance-based seismic design, the use of digital technology in the AEC industry and promoting community resilience and functional recovery.
Geoff Rodgers
Geoff is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury, where he teaches solid mechanics, dynamics, and finite element analysis. He has particular research interests in energy dissipation devices and damping, low-damage seismic design, and experimental testing. Geoff was the recipient of the 2014 EQC/NZSEE Ivan Skinner Award and a recipient of a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2015. He is also an Associate Investigator in QuakeCoRE, where he is involved in Low-Damage Seismic Design and Functional Recovery/Repairable Buildings.
Mike Stannard
Mike is a civil engineer with extensive national and international experience in building regulation, construction and risk management. He was formerly Chief Engineer for the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment, leading the Ministry’s technical work relating to the response and recovery from the Canterbury earthquakes, including responding to Royal Commission recommendations and implementing lessons across New Zealand. He led the development of the earthquake geotechnical engineering practice series of modules for MBIE and NZGS and was reappointed by NZGS and Engineering New Zealand as editor for the current project to update them.
Mike is a Fellow of Engineering New Zealand and a Life Member of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, the New Zealand Geotechnical Society, and the Structural Engineering Society New Zealand.
Te Ari Prendergast
Ko Maukatere te maunga
Ko Uruao te waka
Ko waimakariri te awa
Ko Ngai Tuahuriri te hapu
Ko Ngai Tahu te iwi.
Following the Christchurch earthquakes Te Ari was a part of a Ngai Tahu group mandated to support the Ngai Tahu aspirations for the rebuild. Alongside Maori architects Bill and Perry Royal Te Ari worked on key projects in the rebuild such as the "Central City Blueprint", the Avon River Precinct, the Regional Sciences Building at UCAN and a number of other projects. Through this experience he developed an understanding for the role that architecture can play for the healing of communities and establishing connection and a sense of identity. Key to this is the creation of narratives in the design which are informed by, and express a connection to the landscape.
Te Ari is currently an associate at TOA Architects based in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. He works predominantly on significant iwi based projects and as a kaupapa Maori design specialist in the health sector, currently working on a number of mental health hospital facilities and utilising key learnings from his post earthquake experience, to help people find connection in spaces of healing.
Rick Wentz
Rick Wentz is a CPEng Geotechnical Engineer (NZ) and Registered Geotechnical Engineer (California) with 30 years of experience in professional practice internationally and in NZ. Much of Rick’s work focuses on geotechnical earthquake engineering for buildings and major civil works both as a designer and as a peer / project reviewer.
Rick is a member of the expert panel developing the NZGS earthquake geotechnical engineering guidance modules and is a member of the Technical Advisory Group for the update of the National Seismic Hazard Model. He was a member of the Government panel that investigated the performance of the Statistics House building during the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake. Rick also provides engineering and forensic review for the Australasian insurance industry on a variety of projects including the repair of the Kaikoura rail corridor after the Kaikoura earthquake, and the reinstatement of a major petroleum facility after the 2018 M7.5 PNG earthquake.
One of Rick’s particular areas of interest is helping to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between research and practice to achieve positive outcomes for clients and the public at-large.
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