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Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
A safe and ideally snug hut needs to be built in the Southern Alps − one of New Zealand's most hostile environments. Site access is difficult, and construction must be completed before winter. The hut must withstand all imaginable weathers and stay standing for at least 70 years. Who better to take...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/plateau-hut/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
The Pou Kapua is the result of three years of intricate carving by a 30-strong team from New Zealand, Australia, Alaska, Canada and across the Pacific. The carvings depict Māori and Polynesian beliefs, nautical myths and legends, and the histories of migration to New Zealand.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/Pou-Kapua/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
In early 1976, during a workshop cleanout, Aucklander Graeme Addis rediscovered the stripped-down body shell of his 1972 Chrysler Charger race car. The car had been purchased immediately after placing second in the 1972 Benson and Hedges Six Hour race at Pukekohe, driven by Leo Leonard and Ernie Sp...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/winged-victory/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Comfort for seated bottoms at the Athens Olympic stadium, precision for Fisher & Paykel dishdrawers, and simple, sensible flip-tops for shampoo bottles: RPM International Tool & Dies is tooled up to make all sorts of moulds and dies and is selling its services overseas.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/Tooling-around/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
The Britomart development, complete with underground train station and bus stops, Glass House, "Twin Tin Towers", kauri trees, waterfalls, and a refurbished historic Chief Post Office building. "Arguably the most significant project since the Harbour Bridge," commented councillor Douglas Armstrong,...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/britomart/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
In February 2001 Transit New Zealand began operation of an internationally leading-edge Active Traffic Management System (ATMS) within a 4km section of the Ngauranga Gorge between Johnsonville in Wellington and the SH1 and SH2 interchange.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/ngauranga-gorge/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Sinclair Knight Merz are fitting the Victoria University's Rankine Brown building with base-isolating bearings similar to those protecting Parliament Buildings, Te Papa and other important structures in New Zealand and around the world. Jude Barlow examines the Rankine Brown structural upgrade, whi...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/bearing-up/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
The eastern side of Aoraki Mt Cook has two great faces; the 2,500-metre Caroline Face and the 1,800-metre East Face. Winding between the two is the East Ridge, an arête of ice and snow leading directly to the middle peak of the mountain.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/out-on-a-limb/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Roads of their nature are hard, flat and straight; estuaries and the tortured remnants of New Zealand's volcanic formation are not. It follows that management of geotechnical risk was a critical design issue for Tauranga's PJK Expressway project, constructed through some of the most challenging est...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/PJK-expressway/
Oriental Bay Beach Development
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Wellington City Council has upgraded the Oriental Bay foreshore by enlarging and enhancing the existing Freyberg and Oriental Bay beaches, and creating a new beach east of the Band Rotunda.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/oriental-bay-beach-development/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
The calm, settled weather of Dunedin's autumn has made Maurice Davis grind his teeth. Each passing day brings southerly storms closer, and with them the likelihood that reconstruction of the St Clair sea-wall will begin smack in the middle of the annual tempest. Jo Register backgrounds the massive ...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/the-st-clair-seawall/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
The Abel Tasman National Park has come under increasing pressure over recent years from international and domestic visitors who want to experience this unique natural environment.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/Abel-Tasman-sewage-management/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Structural and services engineers worked hand-in-hand with the architects to plan Auckland University's $25 million Population Health Complex under construction at its Tamaki campus.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/shell-beams/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Local communities and schools are investing in new and upgraded sports facilities throughout New Zealand, for these communities both large and small, engineering energy efficient designs with cost-effective capital and operating costs are critical to their viability and success.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/gore-multisports-complex/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
A great divide separates the broad-leaf trees that produce hardwoods, and the conifers that produce softwoods. Conifers, such as pinus radiata, grow quickly and are suited to commercial production.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/hardwood-from-softwood/
Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
New Zealand's only aircraft manufacturer, Pacific Aerospace is well known, especially in military circles, as the manufacturer of the CT-4 airtrainer, a pretty little aeroplane with side-by-side seating for pilot and instructor, a bubble canopy and a 300 horsepower engine which is used to train pil...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/ready-for-take-off/
Electronics - Technologists Practice Case Study
More than 30,000 hectares now produce grapes for wine production in New Zealand. The increase has seen growers resort to using land not previously thought to be able to sustain such a harvest because of potentially devastating frosts in spring and autumn. Claire Le Couteur talks to an innovative en...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Electronics/Mesh-Protection/
Electronics - Technologists Practice Case Study
In the modern world of automated production, distribution and transportation, human hands are few and far between. Richard Worrall finds out about Simtech AGV - a Christchurchbased company adapting its wire-guided vehicles to tap into the automation trend.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Electronics/drive-by-wire/
Electronics - Technologists Practice Case Study
A new medical device developed in Christchurch is set to revolutionise wound care assessment world wide.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Electronics/hands-off-healing/
Electronics - Technologists Practice Case Study
An all-in-one mapping tool developed by a Wellington company is revolutionising the way survey work is done around the world.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Electronics/surveylab/
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