Date: |
09 Sep 2025, 6.30PM – 7.30PM |
duration: |
1 hr |
Location: |
Online |
Cost: |
Free event |
Dean Scanlen is a chartered professional engineer specialising in traffic engineering associated with resource management consents and traffic safety management. He harnesses relevant technology to assist with his work including monitoring using digital video, computer-based intersection capacity analysis and design using specialist terrain modelling and alignment design and vehicle tracking software. His presentation - "How is road width related to harm?" - studies the correlated road width and harm resulting from midblock crashes over a range of speed limits. It was carried out to test the relevant guidelines in NZTA's Crash Estimation Compendium because previous, much smaller studies had not supported those guidelines.
Paul Potter is a Transportation Engineer and heads up the Whangārei Branch of Stantec NZ. Paul is passionate about what he does and likes to be involved in all aspects of design and construction of projects. The presentation will describe the requirements of providing a 3.5m shared path along Molesworth Drive. It will show the issues encountered and resolved in the installation of the path from Dune View Dr in Mangawhai to the new roundabout on Eagle Ray Rd (New World Mangawhai) and from outside ITM (opposite the MAZ Skate Park) to Wood Street in Mangawhai Heads. The project was constructed and completed in late 2024 and is currently in defects maintenance period. The presentation will feature “before and after” photos to highlight the transformation of the route.
Singh Sandhu is a Senior Transportation Engineer at WSP, delivering traffic and transportation engineering projects from planning and design through to construction. He leads roading design projects and provides pavement and road safety engineering inputs for others. His presentation will describe the benefits of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) over more conventional concrete and Structural Asphaltic Concrete pavements, particularly over weak subgrades.
Join us for 3 short, transportation-themed presentations from our local engineers - "The Influence of Road Width on Harm"; "Mangawhai Wood Street and Surrounds Revitalisation"; "Roller-Compacted Concrete Basecourse Pavements"
Dean Scanlen is a chartered professional engineer specialising in traffic engineering associated with resource management consents and traffic safety management. He harnesses relevant technology to assist with his work including monitoring using digital video, computer-based intersection capacity analysis and design using specialist terrain modelling and alignment design and vehicle tracking software. His presentation - "How is road width related to harm?" - studies the correlated road width and harm resulting from midblock crashes over a range of speed limits. It was carried out to test the relevant guidelines in NZTA's Crash Estimation Compendium because previous, much smaller studies had not supported those guidelines.
Paul Potter is a Transportation Engineer and heads up the Whangārei Branch of Stantec NZ. Paul is passionate about what he does and likes to be involved in all aspects of design and construction of projects. The presentation will describe the requirements of providing a 3.5m shared path along Molesworth Drive. It will show the issues encountered and resolved in the installation of the path from Dune View Dr in Mangawhai to the new roundabout on Eagle Ray Rd (New World Mangawhai) and from outside ITM (opposite the MAZ Skate Park) to Wood Street in Mangawhai Heads. The project was constructed and completed in late 2024 and is currently in defects maintenance period. The presentation will feature “before and after” photos to highlight the transformation of the route.
Singh Sandhu is a Senior Transportation Engineer at WSP, delivering traffic and transportation engineering projects from planning and design through to construction. He leads roading design projects and provides pavement and road safety engineering inputs for others. His presentation will describe the benefits of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) over more conventional concrete and Structural Asphaltic Concrete pavements, particularly over weak subgrades.
