You may be the type of person that is bored in your current job and you are looking for a new adventure when it comes to work. Boredom is often down to the fact that you no longer find your job challenging or that you feel that there is nothing new for you to achieve. […]
Without diversity in every sense – opinion, experience, discipline, gender, education, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, everything – we won’t innovate. Artificial intelligence is advancing so quickly that our ability to connect as humans – despite our differences – and to bring multiple perspectives to bear, is more important than ever. Not to mention how important it […]
The construction industry has started to become more buoyant again to the point where firms have needed to recruit new members of staff. As with all industries, safety is a fundamental aspect that needs to be adhered to. Legislation is in place to ensure that there is a basic level of safety requirements that all […]
This is the first time a warning has been issued under the Building Act 2004 to Building Consent Authorities. It means that building consent is unlikely to be issued for any new building with a loop bar detail.
Seismic assessments require significant professional judgement, which means different engineers can produce differing assessments of the same building.
It’s often said that a dog is a man’s best friend, but when it comes to professional welding, your welding helmet is way out in front.
An award-winning, pioneering technique for assessing earthquake damage to steel in buildings or bridges will allow engineers to give faster, more reliable information to engineers, with tangible flow-on results for insurers and building owners.
New Zealand is known for its amazing coastlines and the ocean surrounding it. As the area is so vast, policing and protecting it is not an easy job. So how do the maritime units do this? There are a number of agencies involved in protecting patrolling New Zealand’s waters. The military, the police and the […]
MBIE is proposing to amend eight engineering equations in the Concrete Buildings section of the Seismic Assessments of Existing Buildings.
When we use the term heavy equipment, we often think of large machinery, trucks or anything construction related. To some degree this is true, however heavy equipment can be deemed as anything mechanical that performs a task on a large scale. Heavy equipment actually refers to heavy duty vehicles that are especially designed for earth […]
