SUNNYVALE and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 14, 2016 – Trimble and Autodesk, Inc. have entered into an interoperability agreement aimed at saving customers time and reducing project costs typically associated with workflow inefficiency across different suppliers’ technologies. This will benefit architects, engineers and contractors, and importantly, project owners by enabling more freedom to optimize technology workflows needed to meet the complex requirements of today’s construction projects. Continue reading the article here at A2K Technologies          

Back in the 1960’s Te Kauri Lodge was built located between Pirongia and Kawhia in the Waikato.  It’s purpose, to encourage young people to become ecologically aware. And in this, like the other aspects of what the lodge has to offer, it has been very successful in achieving what it set out to do, along with being  been instrumental in steering young folk into meaningful and productive careers. For some time now there has been talk in the media about how important it is for young folk to become career orientated and place themselves in a position of learning thus…

Darren Guard’s family has been involved in the fishing industry in New Zealand waters for 189 years, since 1827. He is the last of the Guards to be involved in commercial fishing. But he no longer catches fish. His involvement is as a director of Guard Safety Ltd, providing advice to the maritime industry, and as project manager for Trident Fisheye, implementing electronic monitoring on to fishing vessels. It was in that latter role that he was thrust into the spotlight when former Greens leader Russel Norman, now Greenpeace New Zealand head, made breathless allegations about the sinister work Trident…

A global producer of advanced LED lighting products, today announced it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with the Greenenz Group of New Zealand and Enertricity of Sweden). Eco-Shift Power Corp. is a contract manufacturer of advanced, high-efficiency lighting products and components designed for state-of-the-art energy management systems and cloud-based software platforms. Greenenz Group and Enertricity partner is providing sustainable solutions for the waste, solar, water, lighting and distributed energy sectors acting as an Energy Service Company (ESCO) having a global network covering 30 countries. "In essence, we act as project developers integrating design, financing, installation and operational elements," commented…

Hackers target builders’ accounts - An Auckland woman, tricked into paying thousands into the wrong bank account, doesn’t know whether she’ll get her money back and wants to warn others about the elaborate ruse. The woman, a Consumer member who doesn’t want to be named, thought she was paying $14,000 into her builder’s bank account through internet banking. However, the builder’s email had been hacked and an invoice sent with an altered account number. When the money didn’t show up in the builder’s account, it sounded alarm bells. The woman contacted her bank, ANZ, but by then — just two…

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Earlier this week I read an article which talked about the bureaucratic nightmare that the amended health & safety at work bill is turning out to be for businesses.  Apparantly there has been a significant increase in worried people contacting insurance companies  looking at taking out more insurance as a way to protect themselves against what they don't know about.   This worry tends to penetrate further into organisations and can have a negative effect on an organisations daily operation and those who provide services/products to it.   A good example was recently a personal friend,  who happens to be a potter…