Our team wish you the best over the Christmas holidays
We wish all our members, industry colleagues, staff and families a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! As HERA looks forward in 2018 to celebrating 40 years of excellence…
Marine energy is out there, but when will we start recovering it?
Last week HERA attended AWATEA’s AGM in Wellington as part of the Board. It was an opportune time for us to take stock of where New Zealand’s advances in wave…
HERA welcomes new CEO – Dr Troy Coyle
Dr Troy Coyle joins the HERA team as its new CEO from the beginning of next year. Troy comes to us with extensive experience in innovation, research management and product…
Leading triple bottom line in New Zealand’s outback – Calder Stewart Steel, Milton
Some may recall that Calder Stewart Steel was the winner of the prestigious industry excellence award ‘Metals Industry Innovator of the Year’ at the 2015 Metals Industry Conference. Achieving this by…
Industry development hits the road to deliver member value and scout opportunities
Starting from today our Industry Development Manager Dr Boaz Habib will be on the move. Exploring member opportunities, cementing key relationships and following up on our research and development program…
Call for comment – Draft HERA Public Policy Position 2017
HERA advocates on behalf of our members where we feel we can make an informed contribution – and this is in R&D and industry development. And as a result, we’ve…
Initial trials confirm heavy scaling potential at Ohaaki geothermal site
The Materials Test Rig was installed at Ohaaki Thermal Kilns earlier this year as an outcome of our AGGAT program, with generous fabrication support from some of our members. Currently…
SESOC deliver a pathway in ‘Securing the future’
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…
Update – AS/NZS 1554.3:2014 A1 Structural steel welding – Part 3: welding of reinforcing steel amendment
In May 2015, Standards Australia was alerted to the fact that the 2014 editions within the AS/NZS 1554 suite contained material that was included without adherence to their standards development…
Opportunities don’t fall from trees. You create them.
Mahatma Gandhi once stated, ‘The future depends on what we do in the present.’ Obvious, yet so profound. Its connotations have far reaching implications for how we think about our…
Notice – Welding of non-AS/NZS steels to AS/NZS 1554.1
When steel merchants aren’t able to supply parent materials to a preferred AS or AS/NZS specification fabricators will face the need to weld structural steel manufactured to an overseas standard.…
Duo Ophir Rocher Mixed Development – Beca Group | HERA
Ballroom tuned mass damper analysis Member & client: Beca Group Duration: 2014 – 2016 Location: Bugis, Singapore HERA provided timely and critical analyses to help support our members on a…