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      • Strategic Review of Procurement of Three-Waters
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Integrating Building Information Modelling and Health and Safety Design Phase

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Greg.Preston

  Building Information Modelling (BIM) has an established role for health and safety (H&S) in the design stage. Safety in Design and Prevention through Design approaches can be adapted to

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BIMSAFE

Integrating Building Information Modelling and Health and Safety Construction Phase

Posted on March 15, 2023March 15, 2023 by Greg.Preston

  Building Information Modelling (BIM) has many applications for health and safety during the construction process, and can support a range of activities. Four key areas have been addressed in

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BIMSAFE

Seismic Demands on Sprinkler Piping Systems: Findings from a Shake Table Testing Program & Relevance to NZ Standards

Posted on January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 by Greg.Preston

Fire sprinkler piping systems have intricate layouts on building floors that lead to complex distribution of demands in various segments of the system under seismic floor excitation. The New Zealand

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Non-structural Elements Experimental Testing

Seismic Performance of ‘Rocking’ Dual-slot Track Internal Partition Walls with Concealed Joints Under Lateral Cyclic Drift Demands

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Greg.Preston

This paper reports the seismic performance of two ‘rocking’ internal plasterboard partition wall specimens comprising dual-slot tracks (DST) with a) sacrificial L-trim (SLT) joints and b) boxed end-studs and standard

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Non-structural Elements Experimental Testing

Non-structural Elements Need Seismic Standards

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Greg.Preston

Engineers have come a long way in ensuring that the skeleton of a building does not fracture in an earthquake. However, work is now needed for our buildings to also

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Strategic Review of Design and Construction of Non-Structural Elements Earthquake, non-structural

Seismic Performance Characterization of Fire Sprinkler Piping Systems Through Shake Table Testing

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Greg.Preston

Fire sprinkler systems damaged during earthquakes can compromise the functionality of a building facility either by loss of fire protection and/or by damage due to flooding. Shake table tests were

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Non-structural Elements Experimental Testing

DATA601 Photogrammetry and Semantic Machine Learning for Construction Site Monitoring

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Greg.Preston

Each year, there are around 6000 injuries on the New Zealand construction site that have resulted in more than a week away from work [1]. It is critical for the

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Artificial Intelligence Processes to Code Compliance Checking COP

Defect Level Condition Modelling of Sewer Pipes

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Greg.Preston

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of various factors, including age, diameter, and slope on the prevenance of eight defect categories in the transmission sewer network

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Classifying Sewer Pipe Deterioration

Defect Assessment of Sewer Pipes

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Greg.Preston

Eight categories of defects were identified in 2817 sewer pipes in Auckland, New Zealand based on recent CCTV inspection reports. The correlation between eight defect categories and several physical and

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Classifying Sewer Pipe Deterioration

Consistent Classification System for Sewer Pipe Deterioration and Asset Management

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Greg.Preston

Sewer pipe deterioration is driven by a finite number of root causes and processes. Thus, it should be both feasible and advantageous to have a uniform classification system that can

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Classifying Sewer Pipe Deterioration
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