2026 LVR Workshop

Link to photos- special thanks to Geoff Webb and Selina Gulliver!

Copies of presentations for your reference:  

‍ ‍ Thursday 20 August:

• 1.- Keynote Darren Shepherd (Unsealed Roads) - Measure What Matters - the core metrics driving better unsealed road performance

• 2.- Steve Abley (Abley) - Safe Curves: Taking over the World and now New Zealand

• 3. - Ashishika Sharma & James Taylor (Auckland Transport) - AT’s Flood Resistance Strategies for Low Volume Rural Roads

• 4. - Bruce Clayton (NTRO) - Impacts of Extreme Weather and flood events on roads and life cycle oriented asset management and investment strategies

• 5. - Robert Coulson (Lavello Estates) & Nick Dawe (South Taranaki DC) - Willow Brush walls - providing resilience 22 years on

• 6. - Nick Schilov (Hiway) - Managing dust on unsealed roads

• 7. - Scott McIntyre (The Datastack) - 40 seconds or less! Supporing unsealed road decisions with simplified processes and data automation

• 8. - Danielle Jarrett (Lonrix) - Unlocking Unsealed Roads: Low-Cost, High-Impact monitoring using video, AI and geometry data

• 9. - Emile van Zyl (Downer) - Treatment Selection Bias - A case to be made for low volume roads

• 10. - Jarrod Bates (Fulton Hogan) - CCDC In Action: A national view for smarter road maintenance

• 11. - Karun Kalesh (Downer) - Setting the standard together: Tararua Alliance’s ISO 55001 Journey as New Zealand’s First Certified Road Controlling Authority

  YOUNG PRESENTERS

• 12. - Liam Silverwood (Beca) - Optimising unsealed road grading programmes using arc routing techniques

• 13. = Manvir Singh (Downer) - Smarter Pavement Preservation: Extending low volume road life through specialised emulsion preservation in New Zealand

• 14. - Hamish Scown (Pan Pac Forests) - Using wood debris as roading material

• 15. - Ben Whelan (Southland DC) - Supporting elected member decisions with roading cost scenarios

• 16. - Michelle Bong (Fulton Hogan) - Surviving the storm: Roading resilience

• 17. - Cass Hetherington (Port Blakely) - Using geotextile to cost-effectively design forestry roads

• 18. - Jasmeet Singh (Downer) - The cost beneath infrastructure consents

• 19.- Komal Marwah (Higgins) - Routine Work Module

• 20.- Dawn Inglis (Co-Lab RIMU) - Harnessing consistent condition data for strategic asset management and investment decisions

• 21. - Andrew McKillop (NZTA) - Capability challenges – supporting the New Zealand transport sector to succeed

• 22. - Sikander Singh (Tauranga CC) - Telling your investment story using evidence-based insights

• 23.- Robin Power (Insitutek) - Moving on from CBR – Embracing a modulus-based approach

• 24. - Jeremy Hughes (Company X) & Jarrod Stent (BBO) - From buried data to visible risk: Rethinking geotechnical test evidence

• 25. - Simon Hunt (Fulton Hogan) - Unsealed Roads Asset Management project (for local authorities)

Friday 21 August

• 26. - Darren Shepherd (Unsealed Roads) - Standardising grading - Can it be done? Or is it a myth?

• 27. - Tyrone Toole (NTRO) - Performance of low volume roads in Australia and a basis for developer contributions from heavy vehicle operations

• 28. - Glenn Fawcett (Independent) - Tuvalu Concrete low volume road

• 29.- Swampy Marshall & Logan Taylor (Fulton Hogan) - Back to Basics - Making the most of what we have got

• 30.- Eric de Boer (DoC), Scott Verevis & Lisa Verevis (AME) - Beyond the main road - Dept of Conservation (DOC) unsealed road condition rating

• 31.- Lauriel Chase (Gisborne DC) & Andrew Church (Fulton Hogan) - Tiniroto Road Seal reversions as a holding strategy

• 32.- Bill Turner (Independent) - Closing the productivity gap

• 33. - Almero du Pisani (HEB) & Steve Guy (Selwyn DC) - Understanding the Client and Network needs

• 34. - Sushma Thapa (AT) & Peter Kampjes (GeoSolve) - Using Pavement Strength data to optimise unsealed road maintenance – A case study on unsealed Auckland network

• 35. - Harish Singh - Auckland Transport Seal Extension Programme (unfortunately not presented due to illness)