Wellington Branch

Wellington Branch Co-ordinators

committee_david_stewartDavid Stewart

David is the Geotechnical Team Leader of the Wellington office of Aurecon (formerly Connell Wagner).

David completed an MSc in Engineering Geology at Canterbury University and then worked in site investigations in the UK, returning to NZ to work on the Cromwell Gorge Landslides project. He then worked as an engineering geologist for GNS in Dunedin, followed by 2 years at the nearby Macraes Gold Mine. After a stint in Auckland picking up a BE (Civil), he moved to Wellington with Duffill Watts & Tse in 2001 and Opus International Consultants from mid 2004 to June 2011.

Phone: (04) 439-0318

Email: david.stewart@aurecongroup.com


welbc_beverley_curley02Beverley Curley

Beverley is a senior engineering geologist with GHD Ltd in Wellington.

She graduated in 1998 with a BSc(Hons) in Geology from Kingston University, UK, followed a few years later in 2002 by an MSc in Geohazard Assessment from Portsmouth University, UK. Prior to Jan 2010 she was with Opus International Consultants in Wellington since her arrival in NZ in Nov 2004. In the UK she worked for Mouchel Parkman.

Beverley loves living and working in NZ, her keen interest in slope stability and landslide hazards has piqued in this geologically and seismically active setting.

Phone: (04) 495 5832

Email: beverley.curley@ghd.com


Andrew Kennedy

Andrew is a senior geotechnical engineer with Tonkin & Taylor Ltd in Wellington

Phone: (04) 381 8569

Email: akennedy@tonkin.co.nz


Chris Massey

Chris Massey is an engineering geologist with GNS Science in Lower Hutt.

Phone: (04) 570 4770

Email: C.Massey@gns.cri.nz


Jennifer Bradshaw

Jennifer Bradshaw is an engineering geologist with Beca in Wellington.

Phone: (04) 473 7551

Email: jennifer.bradsaw@beca.com


welbc_guy_cassidyGuy Cassidy.

Guy is a Senior Engineering Geologist working for Aurecon NZ Ltd in Wellington.

Guy has completed a MSc in Engineering Geology at Cardiff, University of Wales and worked for Mouchel Parkman in the UK for three years before moving to New Zealand in 2005.  After a brief working trip back to London in 2008/09, Guy has returned permanently to New Zealand as a Chartered Geologist (CGeol) and Engineer (CEng UK) and enjoys the diversity of work available in such a geologically young and tectonically active country.

Specialist interests include landslide remediation, rock slope stability analysis and the application of geophysics in the field of geotechnics and engineering geology.

Phone: (04) 471 8700

Email: CassidyG@ap.aurecongroup.com



Coming programmes are indicated below with confirmed details sent to Wellington members by e-mail prior to each event.


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Previous Branch Meetings

Recent Developments in Finite Element Analysis by Denis Waterman

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2011 Geomechanics Lecture

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Muldoon’s Corner SH2 Realignment Field Trip

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VUW Talk – NZCCRI Seminar Series on Resilient Canterbury

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Wellington Branch Double Header – Landslides in Rock Slopes and Earthquake Triggered Landslides

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Movement patterns of a reactivated landslide: Utiku, New Zealand.

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Closely jointed rock masses talk

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Soft ground engineering – 2 talks for the price of 1

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Darfield Earthquake Recovery

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RTSA & IPENZ Talks- “Natural Causes?”

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Geoscience Society Talk – “Through the eyes of a miner: the photography of Joseph Divis”

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Geoscience Soc of NZ Talk – New methods for deriving submarine paleoearthquake records using seismic reflection data

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Geoscience Society of NZ Talk – The Samoa-Tonga earthquake & tsunami of 29 September 2009

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“Its Our Fault” Update

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Engineers Without Borders – Quiz night fundraiser

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Geosience Soc of NZ & Royal Soc of NZ – The 1st Dinosaur Footprints in NZ

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GNS Science Talk: Landslide hazard, risk & vulnerability – European studies on spatial assessments, monitoring & early warning.

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Geoscience Society NZ Meeting – How do tectonic plates lock together?

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The failure of Analcóllar Dam

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Site visit – The Willis central buildings

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Geotechnical Observations – 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China

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NZGS – Deep Excavations Short Course, Wellington

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The Nicoll Highway Collapse in Singapore – A Technical Perspective (Wellington)

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Evening Lecture – Performance based Aseismic Design of Rigid Retaining Walls

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Pike River Coal Tunnel

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Kapiti Views Subdivision – Subdivision Design & Construction in Geologically Hazardous Terrain

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E H Davis Memorial Lecture Series and Nakheel (Tall) Tower, Wellington

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Abbotsford Landslide Revisited

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Transmission Gully Highway

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