This years South Island forum was held in Christchurch on Wednesday 3rd August, hosted by Connetics and facilitated by Brian Campbell.
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Brian Campbell, Principal Design Engineer at Connetics Brian is a Principal Design Engineer with Connetics having been involved in the industry for many years, firstly as an Electrical Apprentice with the Waitaki Electric Power Board and later with Aurora. Brian has specialized in Overhead Distribution and Sub-Transmission design for many years for Orion, Aurora and PowerNet. A firm advocate for limit state design methods, Brian is continuously challenging the “This is the way we’ve done it before” mindset. Recent projects include the design of dual circuit 33/11 spans of up to 700m, new steel poles utilized by Aurora during their high intensity maintenance program and the Halfway Bush – Berwick line rebuild. |
The agenda from the day is available below:
Topics and Presentations
Applying Standard Design with Composite Crossarms
- Mitch Graham - Fault Avoidance and Constraints Engineering Team Lead, Unison
Sag-Tension Calculation 220710 - spreadsheet
- Carl Rathbone - Specialist in Electricity Distribution Overhead Lines Engineering, LinesSmart
- John Foley - Senior Specialist Fire investigator, Fire and Emergency
Road Safety Design Considerations
- Ken Pattie - Overhead structure team leader, Powerco
- Zain Kader - Sustainability Engineer, Orion
Overhead Lines Design; Design Concepts, Issues and Problems
Lateral Pole Capacity (Brinch-Hansen)
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Tony Raper, Technical Principal, Overhead Lines Design, WSP
- Aaron Mullins - Sustainability, Electropoles and Engineering Specialist, Goldpine
- Rodger Griffiths, General Manager, Generation and Technology, Westpower
- Dan Batchelor - Southern Regional Manager, Connetics
- Goran Stojadinovic - Product and Innovation Manager, TransNet
- Paul Blackmore - Principal, Agila Solutions