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NZ and in particular NPI has to offer more that matchstick buildings. However that requires a big deal of early cross-discipline coordination and communication as well as a digital workflow to optimize systems early.

Over the last few days, I learned a bit about Matariki, the Maori New Year. My personal thoughts: Time to think and re-think. Time for adaptation and change. Time to reflect what worked and what did not. I like the concept of Matariki. Have a…

The Government has opened up more than 3000 square kilometres of a marine mammal sanctuary for oil and gas drilling, home to the critically endangered Maui’s dolphin. It comes less than a week after the International Whaling Commission urged our Government to do more to…

The traditional power industry is finally facing a mass defection because of a source once dismissed as a pipe dream.

While it was a bit scary last month when the electric engine all of a sudden stopped working and I just made it home, I guess that is probably something that is not necessarily unexpected for a 13 year old car with more than 250,000…

It was just two months ago when I installed some additional security measures on our server to prevent illegal script exploits and login attempts.

As there are many shades of green, the same applies to recycling. There is downcycling, recycling and upcycling. I think those terms were used by Reiner Pilz first. Most of the time we are doing the lowest level: downcycling, ie your soft drink bottles are…

So we have done it, we sold our good passive solar house with some tears in our eyes. Particularly the kids were quite sad. However we look forward to remodeling a 1960 Keith Hay home to a new standard.

After the referendum against asset sales showed that 2/3 people were against asset sales, the National Government can apparently still see no reason to stop the sale.

Via Radio New Zealand, 3 December 2013 The thing about building the most sustainable headquarters while applying for the next open cast coal mine never added up. The article by Radio NZ hold some hope however: