Every once in a while a product or technology comes along which is a game changer – it disrupts the existing market completely. Think the microwave oven, the iPod or iPhone, e-book readers or the world wide web itself.
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LHT Design – Cutty Sark Pavilion, London
The Cutty Sark is an historic ship, however this futuristic pavillion has a lot more in common with its reason for being than [ More ] [ Read More ]
NZ Wood media release: 22 March 2011
The experience of rebuilding the Italian town of L’Aquila after its devastating earthquake in 2009 showed people who have been through such disasters have a preference for timber, according to Italian engineers.
Engineer Paolo Lavisci [ More ] [ Read More ]
After much of Japan’s north-east coast was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami, can the country rebuild to withstand similar events in the future?
Professor Colin Taylor from Bristol University explains the “complexity of earthquake design” and how against such a [ More ] [ Read More ]
Brian Langham from NZ Wood visited the Japanese city of Kobe six months after its devastating 6.8 magnitude quake in 1995. His report on the lessons learned from the quake and its implications for New Zealand (a version of which was [ More ] [ Read More ]
