The Special Interest Group for Engineering General Practitioners (EGP) invite you to join this webinar that will focus on the software workflow for a simple problem suitable for EGP-type work. This webinar will demonstrate how the Space Gass structural analysis software program can be used to assess a structural problem, and how it can provide useful results. The identical problem shall be the topic of our July webinar, using SAP2000 software. Our presenter in Ben James who has around 15 years of experience as a consulting engineer with the last 3 years spent as the CEO of Space Gass. Prior to joining Space Gass Ben ran his own consultancy focused on high end architectural housing projects following stints at a range of Australian consultancies including AECOM. Ben has a Bachelor of Engineering Civil degree, as well as an Masters of Business Administration, both obtained in Australia.

This webinar brought to you by the Special Interest Group for Engineering General Practitioners (EGP) introduces some of the key challenges with access and boundary conditions for the design and construction of retaining structures, which include: - Where is the boundary and whose land does it retain? - How will the retaining wall affect ground movements in the future (above and below the retaining wall)? - How do we assess the stability of temporary slopes and batters required for retaining wall construction? - Geotechnical Investigations - how much do we need? - what is the correct surcharge for temporary and permanent cases?

This webinar delves into the specifics of soil testing methods and their practical applications in structural and foundation engineering. Our speaker, Andrew Holland, a Principal Geotechnical Engineer from HD Geo will guide you through the key techniques used in the field, including: - Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) Testing: Why use it, where it fits into practice - Shear Vane Testing: Best-suited soils and interpreting results. - Interpreting Soil Parameters: Estimating values for cohesion (c’) and friction angle (φ’) without a triaxial test. - Correlations between DCP and Shear Vane: Practical insights for foundations and retaining walls. - Terzaghi’s Influence: Where classical soil mechanics principles apply. - Dos and don’ts of testing in real-world situations. This session is perfect for general practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of soil testing and its implications for design and safety. Bring your questions! There will be time for live Q&A with Andrew at the end of the webinar. Andrew Holland is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer and Owner of HD Geo. Andrew has 22 years of experience in geotechnical engineering New Zealand and the UK. He has worked extensively on projects involving foundations, retaining walls, and geotechnical design.

The Special Interest Group for Engineering General Practitioners bring you this webinar presented by Mark Moppett. Small project's design can have loaded areas that can easily be missed. Have you folllowed through with each of the load types to and locations ensure all loads are transferred to the foundations? Even a house design can have some traps to watch out for. Find out more.

Part 2 of the webinar addressed basic design concepts and some typical construction challenges are highlighted. In addition, the proposed NZGS guidance document for Stepped Retaining Walls (currently under development) is briefly introduced and discussed after Martin's presentation.

The webinar discussed some of the key risks and pitfalls related to cantilevered Embedded Pole Retaining Walls of up to about 2m retaining height. Basic design concepts and minimum site investigation requirements will be discussed and some typical construction challenges will be highlighted. Martin Larisch is a Fellow with Engineering New Zealand and works as an Independent Geotechnical Consultant and Independent Expert for defective retaining walls and deep foundations. He has over 25 years of experience in the design and construction of retaining structures, ranging from small residential timber pole retaining walls, to block walls and deep basements, MSE walls and tunnel access shafts. Martin has delivered more than 50 full-day courses covering the design and construction of gravity and embedded retaining walls for Engineering New Zealand over the past few years. This short webinar will only focus on the key aspects of embedded timber pile retaining walls.

Our speaker for this Webinar is Peter Van Grinsven (past president of the EGP group) who will lead a discussion on general aspects of On Site systems as they apply to General Practice Engineers. Peter is Joined on a panel by Andrew Daker and Ian Watson. See Bio’s below. Pete van Grinsven ( CPEng and Fellow) has been designing wastewater treatment and disposal systems for almost 50 years. He has seen the growth of regulation and innovation in the discipline and watched successes and failures and the birth of systematic approaches to design and implementation of on-site wastewater control. He drove the process of getting approval for the proprietary Natural Flow Treatment System where grey and black water are treated separately. This meant finding innovative ways of verifying that the system worked. It gained acceptance from AC as an advanced primary system in 2008. Pete is also a structural engineer with considerable understanding of geotechnical issues around foundation and retaining structures. Andrew Dakers is a semi-retired professional engineer (BE, ME) based in Christchurch. After more than 20 years on the Natural Resources Engineering academic staff at Lincoln University, in 1999 Andrew set his own consulting company (ecoEng Ltd), retiring in 2022. Focusing primarily on engineering design of more than 1000 on-site wastewater systems, with the majority of his projects being in the South Island, but also village sanitation projects in a number of islands in the South Pacific. He was a member of the industry committee to develop on-site wastewater training unit standards for the Water Industry Training of the Agriculture ITO (2006). He has provided in-servicing training courses on on-site wastewater engineering in Australia, New Zealand the Cook Islands and Fiji. From 2009 to 2020, he has been an appointed member of the Management Audit Group for the On-site Effluent Treatment (OSET) National Testing Programme based in Rotorua. He is a member of Water NZ and a committee member of On-site Wastewater Management Systems SIG and is a past Board Member of the International Ecological Engineering Society (IEES). Ian Watson ME CPEng studied under Ian Gunn for his Masters in Public Health completing in 1981. Initially working with large water and wastewater treatment systems with Portals Water Treatment Ltd he subsequently worked on water projects in Papua New Guinea working for Beca. Ian established his own practice in 1982 providing mainly Structural engineering services , but he maintained Public Health involvement with On Site systems, and subdivision infrastructure.

Fire Engineer Michael James, Managing Director of Origin Fire Consultants will share with us projects he has worked on an in particular multi unit development projects and basic fire design principles for GP engineers. Learn how to design fire walls and when to call in the specialists! There will be time at the end for questions

All the projects that Martin handles have direct and real impact on General Practice Engineers, so this is an opportunity to learn about current issues facing you, and to ask questions of Martin. Some of the topics to be covered will include: P21 Mixed bracing systems guidance update Guideline to residential waffle floor slab design (2023) Load path diagramming Stage 3 - the warehouse review project Timber Sheer wall design Checklist for fees for jobs - built into QA process

In May 2023 the Government and New Zealand Steel announced a co-investment for the installation of an Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) at Glenbrook steel mill to secure the long-term future of steel making in New Zealand by shifting to this lower carbon emissions technology. In early September the BlueScope Board approved the move to execution and the government funding agreement went unconditional. Underpinning this project is the significant gross emissions reductions of 800,000 tonnes of C02 per annum, representing the country’s largest industrial decarbonisation project to date. Grant Huggins from New Zealand Steel will present an overview of this significant milestone in the context of New Zealand Steel’s history. Grant is a member of the New Zealand Steel Senior Leadership Team, and works as Project Director of the Electric Arc Furnace and General Manager of Mining and Minerals.

Professor James Lim of Waikato University will describe his research paper on Portal Frames. A link to James' website will be available on the day. The Waikato is our new 3rd Engineering University with about 50 students and James is keen to engage with the EGP group to share learnings. John O'Hagan from Compusoft Engineering is an experienced designer using Cold Formed Steel and is with us today representing Sesoc. John will explain the work that Compusoft carry out and be available to answer questions. Ian Watson CPEng and EGP committee member will share his experiences in designing Sheds which include a "Habitable" area, and the effects of building stiffness on load distribution.

The Engineering General Practitioners provide an opportunity for members and all engineers to hear from the EGP President and Secretary, what the committee has been working on.