The 2020 conference was to be held in Adelaide, but due to Coronavirus became our first virtual conference. The theme for the conference was Disaster Preparedness – Are Earthquake Assessments critical to Heritage Structures? The recent spate of natural disasters (drought, bushfires and pandemic) highlights the need for improved resilience against natural hazards. Improved seismic resilience…
In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Newcastle earthquake, the conference was held in Newcastle, NSW from 29 November to 1 December 2019. Papers are available here. In remembering the tragic events of the Newcastle earthquake 30 years ago, the focus was on what has changed in the intervening years and if, as a community,…
Report from PCEE 2019 At least 470 delegates travelled to Auckland NZ for this year’s Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering. The conference doubled as the annual NZSEE conference so not surprising that most of the delegates were New Zealand engineers, there were probably fewer than 20 from Australia which included paper presenters Trevor Allen and…
At the 2018 AEES annual conference in Perth, the recipient of the first Charles Bubb Postgraduate Award was announced as Omar El-Hawat from the University of Technology, Sydney. Omar’s application described his reason for interest in Scholarship and the potential beneficial contribution to earthquake engineering in Australia. The details of his application are below, and…