A Kiwi video game company founded in a New Lynn garage has sold up 80 per cent of its shares to a Chinese giant worth more than $800 billion. Chinese internet colossus Tencent Holdings has bought a controlling stake in West Auckland's Grinding Gear Games, which developed Path of Exile.
Migrants are heading back overseas - and this could be devastating for our building industry. The New Zealand Building Federation (NZBF) says the industry is desperate for workers, as there are still lots of jobs in the industry to be filled.
Dezeen today releases a short documentary, called Elevation, setting out how drones could revolutionise the way people travel, transform how buildings are designed and built, and radically alter the form cities take.
Elevation also discusses the impact of drones on the construction industry, how flying machines will construct buildings - presenting recent experiments where drones are used to lay bricks to create structures or weave cables to manufacture a bridge.
"I believe there will be a huge impact on the built environment once we actually start using these machines in construction," says Ammar Mirjan, a researcher at Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zurich who worked on a project exploring aerial construction.
In a world-first, University of Canterbury Hydrological and Ecological Engineering researchers have filed a patent application for their invention the Storminator™, which could be exactly the weapon that our waterways need.
It will likely affect the Methanex New Zealand plant in north Taranaki, which uses 41 percent of all of the country's natural gas output, turning it into …
Fulton Hogan has bought Stevenson Group's construction materials units for an undisclosed sum, adding two quarries, four concrete plants and a lab testing facility at a time when infrastructure work is tipped to keep growing over the coming five years
More than 700 builders will come together in Rotorua on 25-26 May to celebrate the 20thAnniversary of NZCB, which was established to raise standards across the building industry, and to canvass key issues at a time when the sector remains under pressure from growing demand.
# Housing, a subject that has kept the media busy and certainly propelled a certain Member of Parliment into the headlines.
The New Zealand building industry is renowned for being conservative but a Christchurch-based company, Buildmeup, is set to change all that with a new way for people to build their homes on line.
Palace of the Alhambra, Spain
By: Charles Nathaniel Worsley (1862-1923)
From the collection of Sir Heaton Rhodes
Oil on canvas - 118cm x 162cm
Valued $12,000 - $18,000
Offers invited over $9,000
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242
Mount Egmont with Lake
By: John Philemon Backhouse (1845-1908)
Oil on Sea Shell - 13cm x 14cm
Valued $2,000-$3,000
Offers invited over $1,500
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242