The Auckland Structural Group (ASG) seeks to create and foster "a community of like-minded individuals sharing their structural engineering experiences and showcasing their engineering structures in and around the Auckland area".
When: 5.30pm Monday 17 September 2012 & 5.30pm Monday 24 September 2012 Abstract: The Fletcher Reo Team will take you on a tour of the manufacturing workshop and demonstrate the processes involved in manufacture of reinforcing mesh and the cut…
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When: 4.30pm Tuesday 21st August 2012 & 4.30pm Tuesday 28th August 2012 Who: Ash Arya, Operations Manager, CSP Coating Systems, Auckland Branch Abstract: This is a presentation and site tour and we will be running two sessions in August. Please…
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Who: Bing Li – Ph.D CEng MIStructE MIPENZ Dr Li is Director of Natural Hazard Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. When: Tuesday 29th May 2012; 5:30pm, Room 3.404 at the School of Engineering, University of Auckland, Abstract: The vulnerability…
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When: Thursday 19th April 2012 The presentation discussed the linked column frame (LCF), which has been developed in the USA as an option for a braced-free structural steel framing system intended for rapid return to occupancy earthquake performance level. This…
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When: March 2012 TALK #1: The Manukau Harbour Crossing Alliance Bridges – Bridge Design and Construction in a Successful Alliance Environment Abstract: NZTA’s Manukau Harbour Crossing project on Auckland’s South-Western motorway was delivered by the MHX Alliance in late 2010…
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ASB North-wharf is the new $150M headquarters for the ASB bank being developed by Kiwi Income Property Trust as the building owner and ASB Bank as the head tenant (approximately 18,500m squared of state of the art office space), with…
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We are always keen to hear about interesting projects. Please contact dan.crocker@beca.com to let us know about an exciting project you would like to showcase to the ASG community or let us know about an interesting presentation you might like…
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This month’s presentation was about “Soil-Foundation -Structure-Interaction: Recent Research and Initial Observations from Christchurch”. The discussion was presented by Prof. M J Pender and Dr. L Wotherspoon. The talk was preceded by a brief Annual General Meeting (AGM) to confirm the…
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A walk-over of the recently competed Queen’s Wharf, Shed 10 and the Cloud that was used as the main fanzone foe the Rugby World Cup 2011 (dubbed “Party Central”). The tour was led by Aaron Beer of Beca, who was…
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Alistair Fussell (Steel Construction New Zealand) discussed observations and preliminary lessons learnt from the performance of structural steel buildings during the devastating Christchurch earthquake. In the aftermath of February’s event, Alistair spent time with steel researchers inspecting a number of…
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