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Call for attendees – Upcoming courses in welding inspection

Articles for Alan McClintock, Career, Education, Fabrication 4.0, Notices and updatesBy Brian Low November 9, 2015

This month, the HERA Training Centre is again offering Part 2 of its training programme in welding inspection leading to national and international qualifications. This is for the CBIP Certified Welding Inspector (CWI), and the globally-recognised IIW International Welding Inspector Basic (IWI-B) and International Welding Inspector Standard (IWI-S). The Centre is New Zealand’s only International Institute of Welding (IIW) Accredited Training…

Call for interest – HSR transition training

Articles for Brian Low, Comms 4.0, Notices and updates, ResourcesBy Brian Low November 6, 2015

Following an introductory email members will have received from WorkSafe New Zealand regarding the Government-funded Health and Safety Representative (HSR) transition training programme, WorkSafe is now introducing Safety ‘n Action. Safety ‘n Action is developing the HSR transition training course in partnership with WorkSafe New Zealand. This free training is available for HSRs within our…

ASME ORC conference 2015

AGGAT, Articles for Boaz Habib, Articles for Lei Chen, Innovation Centre, News, Research & developmentBy Brian Low November 4, 2015

The ASME Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Conference 2015 held in Brussels, Belgium this year was the third consecutive conference of its kind and takes place every two years. A total of 214 submissions for presentation were received for this conference of which 142 were accepted, 53 of them in poster presentations. The conference attracted more…

Resource – HERA published in Institution of Civil Engineers flagship journal

Articles for Stephen Hicks, Notices and updates, Resources, Structural SystemsBy Brian Low November 2, 2015

As a past reviewer, Dr Stephen Hicks was invited to author a paper for the flagship journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering. Following its recent publication, details of the paper are given below. Eurocodes – Overcoming the Barriers to Global Adoption, by Dr Stephen Hicks In 2010 the Eurocodes replaced the equivalent…

AGGAT progress update for October

AGGAT, Articles for Boaz Habib, Innovation Centre, News, Research & developmentBy Brian Low October 28, 2015

Research aim 1-4 – heat transfer performance data Heat transfer test rig design and data (critical step 1-4-1/2-2-1) A test rig design for heat exchanger performance investigation has been completed and now undergoing review with our industry partner. The rig will use a temporary heat resource and has been configured to allow testing in two…

Notice – Managing the risk of welding related fire and explosions and the role of the welding supervisor

Articles for Alan McClintock, Fabrication 4.0, Notices and updates, ResourcesBy Brian Low October 26, 2015

The risk of fire and explosion is ever present with welding and thermal cutting and the fatal accident at an Auckland tank farm is a timely reminder of this. It is no coincidence that most welding equipment and welding consumables come with warnings either in the user instructions or on the packaging. Nor is it…

Fire performance of light steel framed floors in multi-storey residential buildings

Articles for Stephen Hicks, Innovate@HERA, Research & development, Structural SystemsBy Brian Low October 19, 2015

HERA is currently working on assessing the fire performance of a typical New Zealand light steel frame floor of a multi-storey building with the aim to provide input into the fire section of the resulting design guide. As the first part of the research, an overseas experimentally-tested floor slab has been investigated numerically by advanced…

Growing regional research initiatives

Articles for Nick Inskip, Comms 4.0, Research & development, ThinkTank@HERABy Brian Low October 12, 2015

Announced in the Budget on the 21st May was an item around the establishment of independent regional research institutes. The intent being that the Government would provide funding towards the establishment of a number of institutes to be located in regional areas and not in the three large centres of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The…

New members of the HERA Executive

Advocacy, Articles for Wolfgang Scholz, Comms 4.0, NewsBy Brian Low October 7, 2015

The HERA Annual General Meeting took place as part of last month’s Metals Week and the members of the 2015/16 HERA Executive were confirmed. The terms of elected members Peter Hutton, Sean Gledhill, David Moore, and John Frear ended with the AGM. Peter Hutton, David Moore and John Frear were re-nominated and willing to stand…

Contractors appointment raises procurement rules application questions

Advocacy, Articles for Wolfgang Scholz, Comms 4.0, ThinkTank@HERABy Brian Low October 5, 2015

The late September announcement that Australian company Leighton Contractors has been appointed as preferred contractor for the pre-construction phase of Christchurch Hospital’s new acute services building, has local manufacturing industry members question if the tender process applied by the Christchurch District Health Board (CDHB) followed the Government Procurement Rules as required by law. Oct52015 An…

AGGAT progress update for September

Advocacy, AGGAT, Articles for Boaz Habib, Innovation Centre, News, Research & developmentBy Brian Low September 30, 2015

This month, we update you on our research themes of Heat Transfer and Materials/Fluids undertaken in the AGGAT programme. One of the Research Aims under Materials and Fluids is RA1-3 – Geothermal Fluid Scaling and Corrosion, led by AGGAT team member Dr. Sadiq Zarrouk (University of Auckland). The other theme of Heat Transfer has two Research…

Notice – New Greenstar steel credit for New Zealand

Articles for Stephen Hicks, Notices and updates, Structural Systems, VerificationBy Brian Low September 28, 2015

The Sustainable Steel Council (SSC) was formed in 2009 to promote the use of steel as a sustainable building material to the various stakeholders within New Zealand’s building and property industries. Following the formation of Metals New Zealand (MNZ) in 2011, SSC supports the wider MNZ activity on the sustainability of metal products. Since 2011,…