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Government reform dashes hope for industry
Industry training organisation (ITO) Competenz has three years to hand over its 20,000 apprentices and trainees and the 3,500 New Zealand employers it currently works alongside to the NZ Ins
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Better infrastructure planning welcome
The release of a prototype Infrastructure Pipeline to forecast major projects being delivered by Central Government agencies has been welcomed by New Zealand’s civil construction sector as a
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Game helps tackle construction skills shortage
The penchant for playing computer games has been harnessed in a series of educational games aimed at growing interest in industries with skills shortages.
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Celebrating 150 years of Heavy Engineering in New Zealand
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Massey launches new School of Built Environment 
Unprecedented growth and success of the construction-related programmes at Massey University has led to the establishment of the School of Built Environment on the University’s Auckland camp
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New president to focus on diversity
Engineering New Zealand's new President Ben Holland says diversity and inclusion will be a strong theme of his tenure, stating he is determined to make the engineering profession more welcom
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A very real achievement in virtual reality
Professor Mark Billinghurst of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI), has received global recognition for his lifetime contribution to human-computer interaction for augmented and virt
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High quality training of engineers is needed
Industry stakeholders are calling for better project design and management to help avoid disputes in the construction sector and when these fail – there is scope for resolution processes to
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Fewer apprentices taken on due to reforms
More than half of employers say they will hire fewer apprentices if a Government proposal to merge polytechs into one national body is implemented according to new research.
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Fewer apprentices taken on due to reforms
More than half of employers say they will hire fewer apprentices if a Government proposal to merge polytechs into one national body is implemented according to new research.
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Service Centre Opening
New Zealand’s leading supplier of Geared Motors has yet again expanded its services and product range. 
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Diary of a budding engineer
Over summer I moved to Tauranga to work at Aurecon as an undergraduate process engineer.
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Quake-testing the whole building, on one of the world’s largest shake tables
New Zealanders can be more confident that new buildings built in New Zealand can stand up to earthquakes of a greater intensity than those that recently hit Christchurch and Kaikoura, say Un
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Major counterfeiting raids net tens of thousands of dollars of fake products
The biggest anti-counterfeiting operation in Hypertherm history took place in Changzhou Province late last year.
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Automation in APAC: trends for 2019
From the most recent smartphone to the latest fashion, keeping up-to-date with trends can be tiring.
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