Programme (PDF copy available here)
| 0845 | Registration |
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| 0930 | Introduction and opening |
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| 0940 | Keynote Address – Dam Safety Regulations – policy issues and way forward |
Craig Hill Department of Building and Housing |
| Morning tea | ||
| Morning Sessions | ||
| 1045 | RMA Developments – new and evolving legal challenges for dam proponents and designers |
Jason Welsh & Alana Lampitt ChanceryGreen |
| Dam the policy makers |
Hugh Ritchie Federated Farmers NZ |
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| 1125 | Implementing the new dam safety regulatory regime | Gavin Palmer Otago Regional Council |
| A new era of legislative challenge for owners in the construction and operation of dams | Peter Lilley TrustPower |
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| Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Sessions | ||
| 1300 | Who wants to be a 'Recognized Engineer' |
Jeff Wastney IPENZ |
| Dam Safety Assurance Programme and Annual Dam Compliance Certificate – meeting the Building Act requirements |
Peter Foster MWH Global |
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| 1340 | Dam surveillance – why, how and where to next? | Rebecca Nicholson & Peter Amos Damwatch Services |
| Lessons from the warning system ERLAWS and management of Ruapehu’s Crater Lake break out, 18 March 2007 | Harry Keys Department of Conservation |
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| 1420 | Facilitating the upstream and downstream passage of eels at large dams | Jacques Boubée & Don Jellyman Freshwater Fisheries, NIWA |
| Impacts on dams and slopes from the May 12 2008 Sichuan earthquake, China | Stuart Read GNS Science |
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| Afternoon tea | ||
| Concluding Session | ||
| 1530 | Revisions for the NZSOLD Dam Safety Guidelines |
Peter Amos NZSOLD / Damwatch Services |
| Implications of a regulated environment – ‘at last somebody to blame’ |
Peter Mulvihill Pioneer Generation |
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| 1615 | Summary overview | Jeff Jones JARMAC Partnership |
| 1630 | Social Hour | |