2011-12-01 14:09:34 // Design Daily Team
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Quality land development for years to come will be the legacy of the 2011 New Zealand Institute of Surveyors Award of Excellence ‘Gold’ winner.
2011-12-01 09:55:29 // Esther Goh
IRL research engineer Marcus King has been named the 2011 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards Engineering Innovator of the Year for his work in developing rehabilitation technologies.
2011-09-29 12:04:54 // Colin Brown
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Engineering solutions to combat climate change already exist and were it not for patchy political will, we could be building a low-carbon economy right now with them, as this story in New Scientist explains.
2010-11-30 10:26:21 // Design Daily Team
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Canterbury's NZi3 Innovation building, luxury Auckland apartments and Rob Fyfe are among winners celebrated at the recent 2010 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards in Wellington, attended by more than 360 guests. But the winner of the Supreme Award for Engineering Excellence was a snowier affair.
2010-11-18 16:10:52 // Keith Newman
// Idealog #30: features
A new twist on fire pumps could see a tiny Hawke's Bay workshop booming in a new niche market. Keith Newman visits the innovators of Tikokino.
2010-11-10 15:54:44 // Design Daily Team
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Reckon you’ve got a few creative and intelligent ideas floating around about how to best design more resilient communities? As part of a new competition, the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering is on the lookout for proposals that will increase the resilience of cities and communities affected by earthquakes and tsunamis, with a focus on aiding recovery and social regeneration to affected areas.
2010-08-11 09:40:58 // Design Daily Team
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Wellington’s new Supreme Court building is on a role. Along with its nomination in the 2010 World Architecture Festival Awards mentioned in last week’s Design Daily story, the Warren and Mahoney designed building has also been shortlisted for the prestigious IStructE Structural Awards.
2010-07-22 14:55:19 // Amanda Cropp
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When Keith Alexander realised a childhood dream and reinvented the trampoline, he also created a global business and relaxed thousands of nervous parents. By Amanda Cropp
2010-07-16 13:59:07 // Design Daily Team
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Two New Zealand-based childhood friends have created and launched a world-first product which gives people who usually use wheelchairs the opportunity to climb up and down stairs, sit, stand, step backwards, sideways and forwards. In a nutshell, it provides the opportunity for people in wheelchairs who want to walk to do just that.
2010-07-01 17:30:32 // Hadyn Green
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The sneaker. It’s a cheap canvas shoe with a cheap rubber sole—or at least it used to be.
2010-06-21 16:25:04 // The Editors
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Just hours before New Zealanders were about to erupt in unprecedented soccer-esque jubilation, the creative minds behind the NZI Centre found their own reasons to celebrate after taking home the most coveted award at last night's annual Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards.
2010-06-01 11:33:44 // Alistair MacKenzie
// Idealog #27: celsias
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There is an alternative to the concrete jungle—a renewable, flexible, light, strong and cost-effective building material that does grow on trees.
2009-06-12 09:31:19 // Simon Young
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Simon Young speaks with Dr. Leah Buechley, keynote speaker at Co-Lab’s recent Creating Technologies Conference, about the blending of technology and fashion, empowering girls to work in tech, and the reinvention of manufacturing.
2009-06-06 17:07:46 // Simon Young
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From squealing t-shirts to flashing cycle gear, there's a lot going on in the world of paper, scissors, glue ... and microprocessors. And it's not just fun, crafty stuff either. Find out the very serious implications this creative technology has for business.
