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                     Back to Speakers overview John Hare Director, Holmes Consulting Group John Hare is a structural engineer and a Director of the Holmes  Group of companies.  He has worked in NZ, UK and the US, where  he established a Holmes office in San Francisco in 2000.  For the  last five years he has been based again in Christchurch, where he  originally commenced practice in 1985.  He is the current President  of the NZ Structural Engineering Society (SESOC) and has chaired  the commercial workstream of the MBIE Engineering Advisory  Group, established since the Canterbury Earthquakes.  Since March  2011, John has also been acting as Principal Engineering Adviser,  firstly to Civil Defence Emergency Management during the National  State of Emergency and subsequently to CERA.  In March 2013, John was awarded the  Fulton-Downer gold medal from IPENZ for public service, as a result of his activities over  the previous two years. The State of Earthquake Engineering in New Zealand - One Engineer’s View  The Canterbury earthquakes have afforded the author a unique opportunity to view the  state of engineering from a different perspective.  The development of the Detailed  Engineering Evaluation (DEE) procedure and the related activities of the Engineering  Advisory Group have required thorough consideration of structural engineering practice.   This has extended to an overview of the outputs from the DEEs completed by a wide  range of engineers, over a wide range of buildings.  From these and more general  observations of engineering practice in contrast with that of other countries, a view on the state of earthquake engineering in New Zealand is offered with some thoughts on future  direction and development needs.   Back to Speakers overview