Sponsored by
| Time | ||
| 9.00 AM – 9.15 AM | Mihi whakatau | |
| 9.15 AM – 9.30 AM | Chair’s Welcome Andrew Balme, Genesis | |
| 9.30 AM – 9.35 AM | Day 1 Sponsor Rebecca Polvere, Damwatch Engineering | |
| 9.35 AM – 10.20 AM | Keynote Presentation Systems approaches to dam safety to build resilience Dr Lianne Lefsurd, University of Alberta, Canada | |
| 10.20 AM – 10.40 AM | Managing Dams Legacy Risks in New Zealand Brian Benson, Damwatch Engineering | |
| 10.40 AM – 11.10 AM | Morning Tea Sponsored by Genesis | |
| 11.10 AM – 12.10 PM | Flood hazard, adaptation, and resilience | |
| 11.10 AM – 11.30 AM | Te Wai Takamori o Te Awa Kairangi – Stopbank Design Challenges Sharyn Westlake, GWRC Bill Veale & Margela Andrews, Damwatch Engineering | |
| 11.30 AM – 11.50 AM | Back to the Future for Probable Maximum Precipitation David Payne, Mercury | |
| 11.50 AM – 12.10 PM | The Importance of Stopbank Breach Modelling for Assessing Legacy Flood Risk in the Hawkes Bay Cameron Paintin & Thomas Wallace, Tonkin & Taylor | |
| 12.10 PM – 1.10 PM | Lunch Sponsored by Genesis | |
| 1.10 PM – 2.45 PM | Concurrent session 1a: Seismic hazard assessment | Concurrent session 1b: Surveillance and monitoring |
| 1.10 PM – 1.30 PM | Seismic Stability Assessment of the Mangamahoe Dams Dave Heard, Riley Consultants | Managing a dam from construction through to operations Andrew Kilby, Damwatch Engineering |
| 1.35 PM – 1.55 PM | Comparing on-fault seismicity and probabilistic seismic hazard from inversion Govinda Niroula, Damwatch Engineering | From Uplift Risk to Resilience: Drain Rehabilitation and Smart Monitoring at Moawhango Dam Andrew Balme, Genesis & Daniel Bardsley, Damwatch Engineering |
| 2.00 PM – 2.20 PM | Enhancing Seismic Risk Understanding for High-Impact Dams through Site-Specific Investigations Vis Chen, Engineering Geology Shreesh Basnyat , Watercare | Using InSAR to monitor landslides Joe Wheeler, Contact Energy |
| 2.25 PM – 2.45 PM | Managing Legacy Risk in Existing Concrete Dams Using Advanced Seismic Assessment Methods Mojtaba Farrokh, Abuild | Do you know your limits Tim Mills, Meridian |
| 2.45 PM – 3.25 PM | Afternoon tea Sponsored by Genesis | |
| 3.25 PM – 3.45 PM | Built to Yesterday’s Knowledge, Managed to Today’s Standards: The Growing Challenge of Legacy Dam Safety Deficiencies Imteaz Bhuiyan, Mercury | |
| 3.45 PM – 4.35 PM | Panel discussion: The Growing Challenge of Legacy Dam Safety Deficiencies | |
| Facilitator: Imteaz Bhuiyan, Mercury | ||
| 4.35 PM – 4.50 PM | Social Function details, summary of the day, and closing | |
| 6.00 PM – 10.00 PM | Social Function – Terrace Kitchen Sponsored by Riley Consultancy | |
Sponsored by
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| 9.00 AM – 9.15 AM | Day 2 Welcome Dewi Knappstein, Tonkin & Taylor | |
| 9.15 AM – 9.20 AM | Day 2 Sponsor Dan Forster, Dam Safety Intelligence | |
| 9.20 AM – 10.05 AM | Keynote Presentation Ten Tenets of Legacy Risk Reduction: Resilience through Prioritisation Chris Topham, GHD | |
| 10.05 AM – 10.35 AM | Morning Tea | |
| 10.35 AM – 11.45 AM | Concurrent session 2a: Risk-Informed Decision–Making | Concurrent session 2b: Broader considerations for legacy risk – governance, contractual, and infrastructure |
| 10.35 AM – 10.55 AM | Semi-Quantitative Risk Assessment: First Time Learnings Peter Fox & Jim Walker, Meridian, Miguel Rocha, Dam Safety Intelligence | Monitoring and Maintenance Matter: contractual arrangements that reduce legacy risk Steve O’Dea, Anderson Lloyd |
| 11.00 AM – 11.20 AM | Managing Legacy Spillway Gate Risk: A System Level Functional Safety Approach to Optimising Safety Upgrades Chris Bonner, Mercury | Building Consents and existing dams Danielle Hooper, Waikato Regional Council |
| 11.25 AM – 11.45 AM | New South Wales Risk Assessment Process – a tool for managing legacy risk in NZ? Joanna Petheram, Beca | Towards a Unified Language for Risk: A Proposal for a National New Zealand Potential Failure Mode (PFM) Schema Miguel Rocha, Dam Safety Intelligence |
| 11.45 AM – 1.00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1.00 PM – 2.35 PM | Concurrent session 3a: Compliance with the Building (Dam Safety) Regulations 2022 for legacy assets | Concurrent session 3b: Rehabilitation and upgrade projects |
| 1.00 PM – 1.20 PM | Inherited Risk, Deliberate Action: Lessons from Managing a Legacy Dam Portfolio at Scale Kevin Ng, Xavier Bradley Tonkin & Taylor Jessan Revalde, Jayesh Solanki Auckland Council | KPO Intake Gate – Go to Whoa Joselito Villena & Bede Geoghegan, Mercury |
| 1.25 PM – 1.45 PM | Speed, Rigour and Scale: Implementing and Managing Dam Safety Programmes Across a Diverse Portfolio of Dams in Wellington Water Alexi Duque & Tung Hoang, Tonkin & Taylor | Evaluation of Jet Grouting Trials for treating erodible sediments at Arapuni Dam: Design and Dam Safety Implications Etaoin Friel, Damwatch Engineering |
| 1.50 PM – 2.10 PM | Implementing the Building (Dam Safety) Regulations 2022: Dual Perspectives from Practice and Ownership Rebecca Polvere, Damwatch Engineering & Brendan Sheehan, Mt Arum Engineering | Restoring a Resilient Future: The Journey from an Incomplete Construction to A Functional Dam Kurt Davies, Engineering Geology |
| 2.15 PM – 2.35 PM | The journey to compliance for existing medium PIC water supply dams Rebecca Polvere, Damwatch Engineering & Judith Robertson, Gisborne District Council | Managing Legacy Risk in an Ageing Dam Appurtenant Structure: Lessons from the Senanayake Samudraya Reservoir Sluice Tower Crack Repair Project, Sri Lanka Sanath Gunasena |
| 2.35 PM – 3.05 PM | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3.05 PM – 3.25 PM | Large Scale Laboratory Testing of Cobb Dam materials Don Tate, Riley Consultants & Kaley Crawford Flett | |
| 3.25 PM – 3.45 PM | Managing Legacy Risk through People: Growing the pipeline of capability for our future Katy Cottingham, Dam Safety Intelligence | |
| 3.45 PM – 4.30PM | Panel discussion: Building next generation of dam engineers Facilitator: Katy Cottingham, Dam Safety Intelligence | |
| 4.30 PM – 4.45 PM | Reflection, summary of the day, and closing | |
| 4.45 PM – 6.00 PM | Network – drinks and nibbles | |
The final programme may differ from the above and can be amended by the Organising Committee before final programme announcement.