Beyond the pour with low-carbon concrete
Image: Collaborative Mix Design. Suppliers like Holcim offer high-performance concrete engineered for a wide range of conditions. Early collaboration between suppliers, contractors, and placers is...
Category : Technical
WSP adds to triaxial testing fleet
WSP has expanded its national fleet of soil testing technology with the addition of a new automatic static triaxial testing machine in its Petone research...
New WSP testing trailer hits the highway
Drivers in the central North Island may recently have noticed a large, WSP-branded trailer parked up near road crews and wondered what it contains. While...
Enhancing Napier’s sporting status
Above: One of the first rugby games to be played on the new ground gets underway. McLean Park has undergone a significant upgrade with specially...
Making plastic pavements
Using waste materials for road paving may not be unheard of, but a recent combination of minds has seen the use of waste plastic trialled...
Building for a one-in-2500yr shake
One of the most earthquake-proof buildings in the world was built here in our own backyard. Alan Titchall explains. Electricity flows between the South and...
Resisting seismic disturbance
Republished from Unearthed magazine published by Seequent and re-edited by Alan Titchall. Over a decade between 1994 and 2013, nearly half a million people around...
Accurate paving with no strings attached
Peter Berton explains why 3D paving offers unmatched paving accuracy, with no strings attached. The name ‘3D paving’ may seem a bit strange; after all,...