Dave Brunsdon

Dave has a range of interests within the Emergency Management field, with a current focus on promoting infrastructure resilience and the implementation of new national post-disaster building safety evaluation arrangements. He is the National Engineering Lifelines Co-ordinator, and is a Past-President of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering.

An earthquake engineer by origin, Dave has observed first-hand the impacts of a number of significant events including the Kobe and Taiwan earthquakes, and this has generated a passion for improving Civil Defence Emergency Management planning in New Zealand.

Dave's particular field of expertise is in the strategic project co-ordination of multi-agency projects and programmes.

Recent projects include the facilitation of the national exercises 'Ruaumoko' in 2007/08, 'Capital Quake' in 2006, and 'Taurus', a Foot and Mouth Disease Simulation for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in 2005. In 2007 he facilitated a disaster response simulation for the gathering of FRANZ partner representatives from France, Australia and New Zealand. He has also been involved in the establishment and oversight of a World Bank-funded project to enhance Samoa's Disaster Management capability.

Dave is the Chair of the Steering Committee for the University of Canterbury-led Resilient Organisations research programme.

Dave's contact details.

Projects

• Development and Delivery of Group Emergency Operations Centre Training (December 2007)
• Mass Evacuation Plan for the Auckland Region (December 2007)
• Niue Island – Development of National Disaster Plan (October 2007)
• Maritime New Zealand - BCP Development and Training (October 2007)
• Exercise Capital Quake (November 2006)
• Assessment of the Capacity and Capability of the Auckland Region CDEM Group (August 2006)
• Greater Wellington Regional Council - Flood Procedures Operations Plan
• Government of Samoa/World Bank - Sustainable Infrastructure Asset Management (C4) Project
• Northland CDEM Group - Marsden Point Community Response Plan (November 2005)
• Auckland Engineering Lifelines Group - Report on Resources for Lifeline Utility Response and Recovery (September 2005)
• Shell Todd Oil Services - Annual Exercise (December 2003)
• Gas Association of New Zealand - NGOCP Exercise (September 2003)

Kestrel Group was engaged to provide a training manual and specific training modules for the Group Emergency Operations Centre (GEOC) staff on behalf of the Auckland Civil Defence Emergency Management Group (ACDEM Group) in 2007. The focus of this training was to provide the personnel from Auckland Regional Council, who were drawn form a range of departments, with the appropriate EOC knowledge and skills.

Kestrel was contracted by the Auckland Region CDEM Group to prepare a Mass Evacuation Plan (> 1,000 people) for the Auckland Region.

Working with New Zealand's Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management, Kestrel took the existing Niue Cyclone Contingency Plan, and developed an all-hazards readiness and response plan, as well as event- and impact-specific contingency plans. This included a couple of workshops with key stakeholders in Niue to better understand the vulnerabilities and capacity of Niue to respond to, and recover from, a disaster.

Kestrel contact for this project is Gavin Treadgold.

In 2006 Maritime New Zealand undertook to consolidate and recast their team based business continuity arrangements into a whole of organisation business continuity plan. Kestrel Group was engaged to develop the structure of the new plan and to work with Corporate Services to update Resumption Team profiles within the new BCP.

Kestrel was also engaged to provide training for Maritime New Zealand Resumption Teams on the principles of business continuity and the implementation of the MNZ BCP.

Exercise Capital Quake ‘06 was an all-of-nation earthquake simulation exercise held over two days in November 2006. Approximately 1,000 participants from more than 50 organisations were directly involved, including local and central government agencies and private companies, making it one of the largest exercises held in New Zealand at that time.