A well-developed understanding of seismic hazards and how to construct earthquake-resilient buildings was crucial to avoiding loss of life in […]
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Newsletter Digest: COP16, the Year of Biodiversity and Engineering for Seismic Hazards
Kyoto focus in Cancun climate talks Predictably fraught negotiations appear to have dominated the COP16 climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, […]
Continue readingNew Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards 2009
The annual Engineering Excellence Awards took place last night in Wellington, in what proved to be a very entertaining (and […]
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Eloise Gibson of the New Zealand Herald and Kiran Chug of the Dominion Post report on the top science award […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Absorbing ideas to combat warming
Anthony Doesburg, of the New Zealand Herald, writes about a report released last month by the British Institution of Mechanical […]
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