SESOC Conference 2019 - Icebreaker Function Sunday 18 August 2019
Time		SkyCity Convention Centre
17.00-18.00		Registration
18.00-19.30		Icebreaker- Meet and Greet
SESOC Conference 2019 - Day 1 - 19 August 2019
Time	Session
8.00 - 9.00	Registration/Coffee/Light Breakfast
9.00 - 9.10	Carl Ashby - 'Conference Welcome'
9.10 - 9.20	SESOC President Address' – Hamish McKenzie
9.20 - 10.20	Opening Kenote Address - 10 Things about the Industry Des Bull - Holmes Consulting / Alistair Cattanach - Dunning Thornton Consultants Ltd
10.20 - 10.45	Morning Tea
10.45 - 12.30	Session 1A - Seismic Retrofit Chair: Namir Amso	Session 1B - Industry Topics Chair: Jaden Whirinui	10.45 - 12.30	Session 1C ESE Lessons Learned Chair: Laura Schwass
10.45 - 11.10	Taranaki Cathedral, Church of St Mary Seismic Retrofit, New Plymouth Panos Aramos - Holmes Consulting	The Emergence of Elevated Post Tensioned (EPT) Buildings in New Zealand - Design and Construction Considerations in the NZ Context Paul Wymer - BBR Contech	10.45 - 11.00	Learning on the Job - Detailed Seismic Assessments and Seismic Strengthening David Tisdall - Beca Ltd
11.10 - 11.35	Seismic Strengthening of Wellington East Girls' College Main Block - Cat 1 Heritage Building Carl Ashby - WSP Opus Ltd	Fixing a Leaning Bridge – Lessons from the Kaikoura Earthquake and a Challenge Zeinab Chegini - WSP Opus	11.00 - 11.15	Proactive Decision Making as a Graduate Engineer Michael Simcock - Calibre Consulting Ltd
11.35 - 12.00	ReCast Floors - Progress Towards Retrofit of Precast Floors Nicolas Brooke - Compusoft Engineering Ltd	Understanding Construction Methodology Damian McBride - Robert Bird	11.15 - 11.30	The Workings of a Project Team - The Seismic Strengthening of the Former Chief Post Office Building, Christchurch Charlotte Corston - Batchelar McDougall Consulting
12.00 - 12.25	URM Seismic Retrofitting - A Different Perspective Marta Giaretton - University of Auckland	SESOC Software Overview Geoff Bird - Beca	11.30 - 11.45	Lessons Learnt During the Design and Construction of Two Residential Developments Jess Orpwood - WSP Opus
			11.45 - 12.00	Design and Construction of the Wellington Airport Hotel Building Michael Geddes - WSP Opus
			12.00 - 12.15	Rankine Brown Earthquake Repairs - 50 African Elephants and Large Cracks in the Capital Levi Grady - Beca Structural
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
13:30 - 14.30	Challenging our Views of Seismic Risk – Are our established practise still fit for purpose? John Hare - Holmes Consulting Chair: Jason Ingham
14.30 - 15.30	Lightening Talks - Hosted By Jason Ingham 9 presenters 60 minutes
	This One Weird Trick Will Revolutionise How You Design BRBs Laura Whitehurst - Holmes Consulting, Wellington	What’s the big idea? Why art school is good training for an engineer Hamish Tocher - University of Auckland	Will Geopolymers Replace OPC Based Concrete Mark W. Kurtovich – BBR Contech
	Engineers need heroes too George Gregory – Cheshire Architects	What are the odds that engineers will begin communicating seismic risk appropriately? Tim Sullivan - University of Canterbury	You’ve been novated to a D&C Contractor! Tip on Serving two masters Rob Harris – Greenwood Roche
	Unforeseen Complications: Earthquake-Prone Buildings that are not being profiled Patrick Cummuskey - Auckland Council	Should you hire a PhD student? Here are the honest pros and cons Francisco (Paco) Galvez - University of Auckland	Better learning from mistakes Gordon Hughes – G A Hughes
	Questions
15.30 - 16.00	Afternoon Tea
16:00 - 17:30	Session 2 - Equity & Inclusion Chair: Charlotte Toma
16.00 - 16:30	Diversity and Inclusion – The Why What and When Graeme Fletcher - AECOM
16.30 - 17.00	Structural Engineering Engagement and Equity in the United States: Findings from US Nationwide Studies of Structural Engineers Dani Paxson – Holmes Consulting
17.00 - 17:30	Discussion Panel Graeme Fletcher – AECOM / Dani Paxson – Holmes Consulting / Michelle Grant – LGE Consulting / Lauren Joyce – Precinct Properties / Tania Williams – Engineering NZ
17.30	Day 1 Close
17.30 - 18.00	SE3 Launch
18.00 - 19.00	Pre-dinner Drinks and Networking
19.00 - Late	Conference Dinner

SESOC Conference 2019 - Day 2 - 20 August 2019
Time	Session
8.00 - 9.00	Coffee/Light Breakfast
9.00 - 9.05	Day 2 Welcome
9.05 - 10.05	The Professional Challenges of Rapid Change – How recent events have shaped the discussion Paul Campbell - WSP Opus Chair: Carl Ashby
10.05 - 10.30	Methodologies to Assess and Quantify Earthquake Damage: A Damage Assessment Case Study of the BNZ Building in Wellington Following the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake Umair Siddiqui - WSP Opus
10.30 - 11.00	Morning Tea
11.00 - 12.30	Session 3A Seismic Analysis Chair: Carl Ashby	Session 3B Structural Steel Chair: Michelle Grant	Session 3C Structural Analysis Chair: Quincy Ma
11.00 - 11.25	Response of BNZ Building in Wellington to the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake - Findings from Observations, Instrumented Records and Numerical Simulation Will Parker - WSP Opus	Engineers Risk Mitigation - Key Elements to Managing the Compliance of Fabricated Structural Steel Kevin Cowie - Steel Construction NZ Inc	Wellington Electricity Resilience Project: A Structural and Geotechnical Approach for Three Representative Sub-stations Arno Percival - Jacobs
11.25 - 11.50	Reviewing Expected Margins to Collapse in the Assessment of Existing Buildings in NZ Andrew Thompson - Holmes Consulting LP	Experimental Testing Results of Commercially Available Buckling Restrained Braces Dan Court-Patience - University of Canterbury	University of Canterbury Students’ Association Building – A Case Study for Design of a Geometrically Complex Building Will Parker - WSP Opus
11.50 - 12.15	Simplified Peak Floor Acceleration Estimation for Existing Buildings: A Response History Based Approach Arun Puthanpurayil - Beca	Structural Fire Design of Concrete Filled Steel Tubular Columns and a Proposal of a new method to AS/NZS 2327 Kingsley Ukanawa - Aurecon	Technical Challenges Involved in Structural Design & Construction of Dixon Street Underground Pump Station in Wellington Mehdi Nikhah - GHD Ltd
12.15 - 12.40		The Resilient Slip Friction Joint (RSFJ) Technology: Recent Developments and Completed Projects Ashkan Hashemi - University of Auckland	Lessons Learned from the Automation of Seismic Assessment of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings Benjamin Westeneng - Beca Ltd
12.40 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 14.10	Melissa Clark-Reynolds Chair: Hamish McKenzie
14.10 - 15.25	Session 4 A Chair: Hamish McKenzie	Session 4 B Chair: Stewart Hobbs
14.10 - 14.35	Seismic Strengthening and Uplift of the 1904 Wellington Town Hall Laura Whitehurst - Holmes Consulting	Performance of Partial Penetration Welds in Seismic Moment Connection Hafez Taheri - University of Auckland
14.35 - 15.00	Integrating Engineering Systems for Design Documentation Ewan Opie - Holmes Consulting	Practical uses of FRP Anchors in New Zealand Enrique del Rey Castillo - University of Auckland
15.00 - 15.25	Trends and Observations from Regulatory Reviews in Wellington Stanley Chung - WSP Opus
15.25 - 15.55	Afternoon Tea
15:55 - 16:25	Perry Bridge, Waikato - Designing New Zealand's Longest Span Network Arch Tim Brook - Holmes Consulting Chair: Hamish McKenzie
16.25 - 16:55	Structural Design - Challenges, Obligations and Responsibilities Helen Ferner
16.55 - 17.15	Innovative Seismic Upgrade Programmes for US Naval Hospitals and Medical Facilities – Case Studies SEAOC Representative: Jennifer Ciofolo – Reid Middleton USA
17.15 - 17.30	Conference Close