This past June, I had the privilege to attend the 13th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF), held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Over three-days engineers and researchers from…
As part of HERA’s pioneering rangahau (research) focused on advancing sustainable construction through circular design within our Construction 4.0 Endeavour Project, a cutting-edge reusable EBF is being developed to revolutionise…
Composite slabs with profiled steel decking are widely used in the construction for their outstanding performance. Based on HERA’s many years-experience in analysing several structures in fire, one of our…
Corrosion often occurs in well-hidden, difficult to access locations in steel structures, where water and debris accumulate over time. Regular inspections might overlook these areas and sometimes they are only…
Article written by – Fanqin Meng, Nandor Mago, and Kaveh Andisheh. The New Zealand Building Code Compliance C/AS7 [1] requires that all structural components should achieve a minimum 30- or…
HERA is pleased to announce the publication of HERA Report R4-152, authored by Nandor Mago, HERA’s Finite Element Analyst. The report checks the validity of the simpler structural design methodology…
HERA has successfully provided Advanced FEA services to a range of projects both in Aotearoa and abroad. FEA is one of the most powerful numerical methods available to solve partial…
HERA recently commissioned an external market research company to figure out what NZ society thinks of our metals industry. The outcome was nothing short of interesting. Why? Because when asked…
A number of anomalies have been reported by users of AS/NZS 2327:2017, which has required corrections to be made. That’s why we’d like to advise that the first amendment is…
As crucial as it is to be able to identify problems experienced by engineers – solving those problems with the right tools is equally important. That’s because the element of…
Ensuring we build on our seismic research capabilities has never been more important to us. Which is why sponsoring STESSA18 made sense. To represent our commitment, we were proud to…
Recently, the SESOC2017 conference was held in Wellington – the fourth to be hosted in New Zealand with the theme ‘Securing the future.’ During this event, both local and international…