Hopkins Lectures

Past Hopkins Lectures

John Hare
CEO, Holmes Group

Did Engineering Save the Town Hall? (2022 Hopkins Lecture Video)

Dr Rod Carr
Chairperson, He Pou a Rangi | Climate Change Commission 

'Will science and engineering save civilisation?' (Facebook)

Sir Ian Taylor
Founder and Managing Director - Animation Research Limited

'Covid-19 - Risk or Reward?' (Facebook)

Dr Raymond Wilson
Senior Construction and Infrastructure Advisory Consultant

'Infrastructure - where would we be without it?' (youtube)

Duncan Gibb
Chief Executive Officer – Australia Construction, Fulton Hogan

'The Rise of the Civic Engineer – the difference a 'C' makes' (youtube)

Professor Mark Burry
Founding Director for Swinburne University of Technology's Smart Cities Research Institute

Gaudi - Structural Artist

Lawrence Yule
President of Local Government New Zealand
Mayor, Hastings District Council

'Defining the Brief for Investment in Community Assets' (youtube)

Graham Mitchell
CEO, Crown Fibre Holdings, NZ

'UFB - A Transformational Digital Infrastructure Platform' (youtube) 

Dr Kevin Thompson
President of IPENZ

'Accountability of Professional Engineers to Communities they Serve'

Nicholas Davidson
QC

'Pike River. An Accumulation of Observable Risk which Demands our Understanding' (youtube)

The Right Honourable Helen Clark
ONZ, UNDP Administrator

'Building Resilience. The Importance of Prioritising Disaster Risk Reduction, A United Nations Development Programme Perspective' (youtube)

Roger Sutton
Chief Executive of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority

'Getting the Power Back on to Canterbury'

Paul Jowitt
President, Institute of Civil Engineers

'Now is the Time' 

Hopkins Lecture 2010 (3.6 MB)

David Salisbury
CEO and Managing Director of NZ Oil and Gas

'Using Technology to Unlock Oil and Gas Resources' 

Geoff Henderson
Director and Chief Executive Officer of Windflow Technology

'Wind Power - One of many ways to a carbon-neutral economy' 

Professor Henry Petrovski
Professor of Civil Engineering and History, Duke University

'Success and Failure in Design'

Don Elder
CEO, Solid Energy

'The economy and energy: are both sustainable?'

Gavin Cormack
Executive Chairman of Beca Group Ltd

'Engineering Innovation and the Creation of Lasting Value'

Hopkins Lecture 2005 (2.5 MB)

The Honourable Pete Hodgson
Minister of Energy, Minister of Transport, Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Minister for Crown Research Institutes, Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change

'Energy Planning in New Zealand'

Professor Tom O'Rourke
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, USA

'Lessons Learned from the World Trade Centre Disaster: Critical Engineering Systems'

Dr David Hopkins
Consulting Civil Structural and Earthquake Engineer, Wellington

Hopkins Lecture 2002 (8.9 MB)

Sir Gil Simpson
Founder and Chief Executive Officer Aoraki Corporation Limited

'Emagine' 

Professor Bob Park
Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Canterbury

'Improving the Resistance of Structures to Earthquakes' (5.4MB)

Roger Estall
Chairman, New Zealand Fire Service Commission

'Engineering Improvement in Fire Risk Management'

The Honourable Dr Nick Smith
Minister of Conservation

'The Greening of the Engineering Profession'

Tom Schnackenberg
Auckland

Team Work and Technology in the America's Cup (PDF, 2.62 KB)

Her Excellency the Governor-General Dame Catherine Tizard
'Engineering and Its Customers'

The Right Honourable Professor Sir Geoffrey Palmer
Wellington

'International Law and the Global Environmental Challenge'

Sir Miles Warren
Architect, Christchurch

'Engineers and Architects - Love Hate Relationship'

Sir Edmund Hillary
Auckland

'Building Primitive but Effective Structures in Remote Areas'

Dr Roger Blakeley
Secretary for the Environment, Wellington

'Environmental Challenges in the 1990's' 

Dr Peter Troughton
Managing Director, Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd, Wellington

'The Future of Telecom in New Zealand'

Sir Robert Jones
Chairman, Robt. Jones Investments Ltd, Wellington

'The Case for Nuclear Power'

R P Carter
Director, Beca Carter Hollings and Ferner Ltd, Auckland

'Consulting Engineering Here and Abroad'

Dr A R Flint
Flint and Neill Partnership, London, England

'Structural Reliability and the Engineer'

R G Norman
Retired Commissioner of Works, Wellington

'Politics and Passions : Adventures in Engineering'

Sir Michael Fowler
Architect and former Mayor of Wellington

'Cities at Risk'

K Piddington
Commissioner for Environment, Wellington

'The Ethic of Environmental Engineering'

J Ingram
Managing Director, New Zealand Steel Ltd, Auckland

'New Zealand Steel Ltd - Opportunities and Obstacles'

I B Reynolds
Director, Kingston Reynolds Thom and Allardice Ltd, Auckland

'Cast in Concrete - The Substance of New Zealand Buildings'

S M J Smith
Project Engineer, Ministry of Works and Development, Twizel

'Big Can Be Beautiful: Hydro Electric Construction in the Waitaki'

Professor P W Taylor
Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Auckland

'Engineers - Leaders or Followers?' 

W M Duncan
Secretary of Energy, Wellington

'Energy and Engineering'

Professor H J Hopkins
Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Canterbury

'A Land of Bridges - A Story of New Zealand (PDF, 8.2 MB)