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HERA: Ep.94 – Top tips to push steel bridge design boundaries
16 August 2023: In this episode of Stirring the Pot HERA talks with Phil Gaby. Phil is Project Director at Holmes ANZ and a civil structures designer, with expertise in bridges, wharves and water retaining structures. Specialising in design and constructing projects and alternative designs where value engineering is needed to bring projects back on track, Phil’s passion is delivering efficient, elegant, quick and easy-to-construct affordable structures with the lowest practical environmental footprint.
HERA: Ep.93 – Building green – carbon offsetting in practice
2 August 2023: In this episode of Stirring the Pot HERA talks with Nico Patchay, Technical Manager of Niche Modular Construction. As the first company to use HERA’s zero carbon steel programme, Hōtaka Whakakore Puhanga Waro, through offsetting – this podcast delves into how they’ve utilised the program for their steel modular building projects and what their experience has been in using it.
HERA: Ep.92 – World’s first fossil free steel
12 July 2023: In this episode of Stirring the Pot HERA talks with Thomas Hörnfeldt. Thomas is the Vice President of the Sustainable Business at SSAB, coming from a background in the metals, construction and process automation industry. He chats with HERA's Senior Structural Sustainability Engineer Amir Shah Mohammadi about SSAB’s HYBRIT® technology which has resulted in the world’s first fossil free steel production.
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Cawthron: Pharmasea - Unlocking the medical potential of our oceans
25 July 2023: The oceans cover 71% of our planet and represent an almost untapped resource when it comes to discovering new drugs. In this presentation. Cawthron Science Impact Manager Dr Johan Svenson explains how drugs can be sourced from the marine environment, what the state of play is on this currently and the work that Cawthron scientists are doing in this space.
Gillies McIndoe: Meningiomas - a type of brain tumour
21 July 2023: Gillies McIndoe’s Ph.D. student, Clara López Vásquez, has been investigating Meningiomas and working to understand why they are more prevalent in women than men.
Bragato Research Institute's National Grapevine Collection
17 July 2023: Bragato Principal Scientist Dr Darrell Lizamore discusses the country’s National Vine Collection housed at the Bragato Research Institute.