Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

The government is expecting a final decision overnight about whether the European Union will formally approve free-trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with Australia and New Zealand.  The agreement will pave the way for a multi-billion dollar deal before the United Kingdom leaves the EU in March.

Callaghan Innovation CEO Victoria Crone says the organisation is ready to “pivot” to accommodate the Government’s new direction for investing in R&D - moving away from grants in favour of tax incentives.

Concerns that there may not be enough wood fibre to supply a new $180 million particleboard plant proposed for Kawerau have been quashed by an industry study which concludes "there is more than enough wood available" although it notes the increased demand

Asthma management updateThe Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ has launched an update to the 'My Asthma' app to help keep asthma management simple for the many kiwi families that have members with this condition.

The longest delays are at London Luton, according to Press Association analysis of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) data. Departures from the Bedfordshire airport were an average of 20 minutes late in 2017.

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.