2006/07 Management Committee
 Graeme
Beattie
Principal Engineer, BRANZ , Porirua City
Elected to the Management Committee in 2002
Graeme is a structural engineer in the Fire and Structural Engineering Services
group at BRANZ. He has worked as research engineer in the earthquake engineering
field for 18 years, having had 6 previous years experience in the structural
design offices of the NZ Ministry of Works. The early part of his research
experience was as head of the Structures section at Works Central Laboratories
where he was involved with a wide variety of research and testing of reinforced
concrete structures. His recent and current research projects have been on
the seismic response of slender precast concrete panels and the design of
high level supermarket/home handyman store racking systems for earthquake
resistance, both culminating in the production of a Design Guide. He is the
leader of the NZSEE research initiative on the racking systems.
Graeme was a member of the NZSEE reconnaissance team to Seattle following
the 2001 Nisqually earthquake. He is also a member of the Structural
Engineering Society (Sesoc) Management Committee and chairman of the
Wellington Structural Group.
 P
Brabhaharan
Principal, Geotechnical Engineering & Risk, Partner
Opus International Consultants, Wellington
Elected to Management Committee in 2002
Brabhaharan is a Principal with Opus International Consultants in Wellington
and a partner in the company. He leads a team of geotechnical engineers /
engineering geologists / risk specialists. Brabha is involved in geotechnical
engineering for a variety of engineering projects throughout New Zealand
and hazard assessment and risk management for a variety of organisations.
He also leads research into earthquake engineering and risk management issues.
Brabhaharan's recent interests include earthquake performance reviews and retrofit
for infrastructure, geotechnical design for major infrastructure projects,
regional natural and technological hazard studies and lifeline risk management.
He has recently developed approaches for the risk management of lifeline networks.
Research interests include earthquake performance of retaining walls and integrated
risk management.
Brabha previously was a member of the New Zealand Geotechnical Society
management committee.
Contact: Opus International Consultants
Majestic Centre, 100 Willis St
P O Box 12-003, Wellington
Telephone +64-4-471 7842
Email p.brabhaharan@opus.co.nz
 Hans
Brounts
Hans is an Emergency Management Planner within the Ministry of Civil
Defence & Emergency Management and the Minsitry's representative
to the NZSEE. As an engineer by training (BE, NZCE) his background
includes work with the New Zealand Defence Force, a variety of international
defence and aerospace engineering organisations, and New Zealand Government
sectors.
Diverse experience ranges from project and risk management, engineering maintenance
management, personnel and budget supervision, development and conduct of
training programmes, contract specification and negotiation, through to Parliamentary
liaison. Hans joined the Ministry to assist its operational Y2K activity,
and was part of the original teams that developed the CDEM Act 2002 and the
National CDEM Strategy, and has been responsible for publishing a range of
sector-developed guidelines including CDEM Group Formation, Planning and
Lifeline Utility involvement.
He has an operational role as a Logistics coordinator in the National
Crisis Management
Centre, and during 2004 assisted the nation of Nuie to develop a national recovery
plan following a devastating cyclone. Hans is currently assisting in development
of the new National CDEM Plan and supports regional CDEM Group planning.
Contact: Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management
P.O. Box 5010, Wellington, New Zealand
Ph (64) 4 495 6849, Fax (64) 4 473 7363, cell 0274 395 573
Email: hans.brounts@dia.govt.nz
 Hugh
Cowan
Hugh Cowan is Research Manager for the New Zealand Earthquake Commission.
His background includes geology, engineering geology, geophysics and
experience of research and consulting in northern Europe, the Middle
East and Latin America. Hugh returned to New Zealand in 1998 to lead
the renewal of hazard monitoring networks, and from 2001-2005 was project
director of “GeoNet” at GNS Science.
Hugh has been a member of the NZSEE since 1990 and led the Society's
post-earthquake reconnaissance mission to Colombia (Armenia) in 1999
and its reconnaissance mission to Thailand following the December
26, 2004, Sumatran earthquake and tsunami.
Research Manager
Earthquake Commission
Level 20, Majestic Centre,
100 Willis Street
P.O. Box 790, Wellington New
Zealand
Tel: +64 4 978 6425
Fax: +64 4 978 6431
email: hacowan@eqc.govt.nz
 Bruce
Deam
Leicester Steven EQC Earthquake Engineering Lecturer
Civil Engineering Dept University of Canterbury
Elected to Management Committee 2001
Bruce is the Leicester Steven EQC Earthquake Engineering Lecturer
at the University of Canterbury, teaching earthquake engineering to
both graduates and undergraduates. He is a specialist in the seismic
response of timber-framed buildings, an area he studied at Canterbury
and developed further at BRANZ during the 1990's. He has considerable
experience with both static and dynamic testing of structural components
and is currently working on building instrumentation for the EQC/GNS
GeoNet project. A member of the management committee since March 2000,
he has convened the organising committee for the 2003 Pacific Conference,
co-ordinated the printing of the Society's Bulletin, and contributed
to the development and maintenance of the Society's web site.
Contact: University of Canterbury
Department of Civil Engineering
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, NZ
Phone: +64 3 364 2601
 Warwick
Kellaway
Architect and Heritage Consultant, Hamilton
Elected to Management Committee 1996
Warwick is an Architect and Heritage consultant of Hamilton. He is
the Architect Member of the Society Management Committee.
Formerly with the Education Service, he spent from 1989 Æ 1999 as
a Director of Five Plus One Architects Ltd. He carried out a photographic
survey and report on the effects on Educational Buildings and sites,
following the 1987 Edgecumbe Earthquake. He has also served as a Civil
Defence Post Warden.
His position is to represent the views of Architects towards Earthquake
design, to assist with Study Groups as required, to encourage greater
interest and involvement in Earthquake philosophy and in recovery work,
and to liase with the New Zealand Institute of Architects.
Contact: J W Kellaway Architect and Heritage Consultant
121 Maeroa Road
Hamilton, New Zealand
Phone +64 7 827 7790
Fax +64 7 846 1175
Les
Megget
Senior Lecturer University of Auckland
Bulletin Editor since 1997
Les has been Editor of the Society's quarterly Bulletin since 1997,
after two earlier periods as Editor. He was convenor of all publications
for the 12th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering held in Auckland
in 2000.
Les has been a senior lecturer in structural design at Auckland UniversityÍs
Department of Civil and Resource Engineering since 1987. His specialisations
are the seismic design of buildings in reinforced concrete and structural
steel and seismic isolation of structures.
Contact: Dept of Civil & Resource Engineering
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92 019
Auckland, New Zealand
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 8167
Fax: +64 9 373 7462
 Dean
Saunders
Structural Engineer, Beca Carter Hollings and Ferner Ltd, Wellington
Elected to Management Committee 2006.
Dean is a structural engineer
in the Wellington office of Beca, for whom he has worked since submitting
his PhD in 2004. His work has included being the full time resident
site engineer for a large retail development in Lower Hutt, steel tank
design, and drafting revisions to the NZSEE Redbook: Seismic Design
of Storage Tanks.
Dean completed his BE Hons (Civil) at the University of Canterbury
in 1998, and received his PhD in 2005 from the same University. His
thesis involved research into the seismic performance of pre 1970's
non-ductile reinforced concrete waffle slab frame structures with plain
round reinforcement.
Contact: Beca
Phone +64-4-473 7551 Fax + 64-4-496 2536
Mobile 027-488 4120 dean.saunders@beca.com www.beca.com
 Mark
W Stirling
Scientist Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Lower Hutt
Elected Society President 2004
Elected to Management Committee 2001
Mark is a scientist with the Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences
(GNS). He specialises in earthquake frequency statistics and seismic hazard
modelling, and also modelling of other geological hazards (volcano, landslide
and tsunami). He has a dual background in geology and seismology, which enables
him to undertake "multidisciplinary" seismic hazard analyses (i.e.
requiring a detailed working knowledge of geological and seismological datasets
and methods). His prime research objective at GNS is to direct the development
of a combined probabilistic model for all New Zealand geological hazards. He
also maintains a heavy workload in seismic hazard consulting at GNS. He also
works on collaborative international seismic hazard projects.
Mark completed his BSc (Geography & Geology) at the University
of Otago in 1983, and after a 2 year period of employment as a geomorphologist
obtained his MSc (Hons _ Geology ) at the same University in 1988.
He then worked briefly for the New Zealand Geological Survey on contract,
followed by nearly 5 years as a consulting geologist with Ian R Brown
Associates Ltd. He received his PhD in 1998 from the Centre for Neotectonic
Studies, University of Nevada Reno, and has been employed at GNS
since August 1998.
Contact: Inst. Geological & Nuclear Sciences
PO Box 30 368
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Phone: +64 4 570 4794
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