Wellington Bridge Design Team

Donald Kirkcaldie, Principal, Bridges & Earthquake Engineering and Dejan Novakov, Senior Structural Engineer of Wellington and their team have developed displacement based analysis and design tools for the analysis and design of bridge seismic strengthening projects.  This has been used successfully on a range Transit and local authority projects, and has resulted in more cost effective solutions than traditional force based analysis methods for both retrofitting and new construction projects.

Rossett Bridge Design Team

Rossett Bridge Design Team: Bob Hodges, Project Director; Anthony Williams, Assistant Engineer; Norman Fuller, Principal Engineer and Adrian Pountney, Senior Technician. Project: Watergate Road and Webster Hill Underbridge Reconstruction, Dewsbury.
As part of a design and build contract with GallifordTry, the Rossett bridges team provided the detailed design for two Network Rail steel ‘U-Type’ bridge deck replacements that were installed during a 52 hour possession over the Christmas 2007 bank holiday period, with Bob Hodges (Director Bridge Engineering) and Anthony Williams (Assistant Engineer) on site on Christmas Day to oversee the deck installations.
We were part of a team that undertook careful design and complex planning that included design of the new structures, demolition of the existing decks and installation of the new decks. This led to the bridge decks being installed successfully and on time, resulting in no delays to rail traffic following the Christmas possession.

Wanganui Prison “Alternative Fire System” Team, New Zealand

Eric Moroney (right) and the Wanganui Prison Team’s performance in innovatively developing a prototype new cell sprinkler system has been outstanding. As a result of problems with existing traditional systems, they were asked by the client (Corrections) to investigate alternative systems. The system that Eric and his team developed uses smoke detection to activate valves that release water into a normally “dry” system. This avoids malicious or accidental activation as well as providing a much earlier response time to fire minimising potential of risk to life and damage.  This is an excellent achievement of innovation and quality.

WETA Workshop Team, New Zealand

This project undertaken by Murray Dickinson (right) from Auckland and his team was clearly a project that was extremely high profile in the world of High-tech Data Centres. Initially this project commenced as a result of the need to carry out the final digital processing necessary to complete the Lord of the Rings Trilogy in time for its world release. Not only was the project delivered on time, but it resulted in some significant technical innovations.  All data centres create significant quantities of heat which must be removed to avoid the computers “cooking”.  Most data centres struggle to cope with heat loads of 8 to 10 kW per row metre. Your team’s leading-edge design allows WETA to operate high tech blade servers with average outputs of 24kW per row metre. WETA have been delighted with their ability to add equipment, virtually of any capacity, and the system the Team designed is able to cope without modification.  This is an excellent achievement of innovation and quality.