Kestrel’s Dave Brunsdon helped co-ordinate the rapid impact assessment of buildings in the Wellington CBD following the 20 July 6.5 Cook Strait earthquake. For Dave this meant hitting the ground running at first light on Monday morning helping to organise operations for Wellington City Council’s...
A hostage scenario played out across three Auckland campuses is the stuff of nightmares but provided a great opportunity for AUT University to put its Gold (Executive), Silver (Operational Management) and Bronze (Site Incident Response) teams through their paces recently. Liz Gosling, Director ICT...
The after-effects of the Canterbury earthquakes are still being felt around the country in a range of different ways. For the Ministry of Education, this has involved a major effort to understand the seismic performance of its existing buildings. The vast majority of the Ministry’s building stock...
For an example of resilience, it would be hard to surpass a 900-year old building complex that still performs a useful function today. While visiting England recently, my wife Helen and I stopped off at Stokesay Castle. It was built in Norman times as a small fortification in the badlands on the...
Contact Kestrel to find out when the next course is scheduled. We all think about planning for the ‘big’ events, earthquakes, pandemics, volcanic eruptions, but what happens when the event is only ‘your’ problem? Examples are a major IT failure, the loss of a key building or facility or some other...
The two ‘David’s’ from Kestrel Group have been busy assisting the Ministry of Education with several aspects of the recovery of its property portfolio following the Canterbury earthquakes. David Middleton is assisting the Ministry to navigate its way through its insurance complexities while Dave...
Getting everyone on the same page during a crisis is a challenge and the best way to prepare for it is to run realistic exercises that put everyone through their paces. During February Kestrel Group teamed up with Fire and Emergency Training Solutions (FETS) to ensure that Contact Energy was...
Last year we highlighted the fact that cybercrime was fourth on the top 10 global risks identified during the World Economic Forum, so how is 2013 panning out for cybercrime? We would like to say we are getting smarter but unfortunately so are the hackers! So what has been happening? In February...
Dave Brunsdon has recently received recognition for his efforts over the years in relation to the development of New Zealand’s lifelines engineering networks, urban search and rescue engineering capability and post-disaster building safety evaluation arrangements. In December 2012, Dave received...
Checking out the Council’s twitter feed during Shakeout at New Plymouth District Council. What were you doing on the 26 September at 9.26am? Hopefully a bit of drop, cover and hold but if you work at New Plymouth District Council chances are you were doing a whole lot more. The Council took the...