Tag: New Zealand
Celebrating the LEEA Awards 2022 winners
The fourth annual LEEA Awards winners were announced during the ‘party of the year’ at the Awards Ceremony, held at P&J Live in Aberdeen...
Gondor to Dubai: Chainmail as a Structural Solution
By Luke Carothers
During the Iron Age (1200-300 BCE), nobility and royalty as well as their protectors began wearing shirts of interwoven metal rings...
Surveying history
Students scan the past to preserve the future.
By Kristine Carber-White
Dr. Pascal Sirguey had waited two years for this day, and he was taking a...
Report: Christchurch shifts from concrete to steel in post-earthquake rebuild
A University at Buffalo engineering professor co-authored a report with potential significant impacts on how modern cities may be reconstructed following earthquakes. “Reconstructing Christchurch: A Seismic Shift in Building Structural System” is a 170-page report that details the reconstruction of Christchurch, the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, following the 2010-11 earthquake series that shut down the city’s central business district for years.