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Posted on Tuesday 28 February, 2017
Mark Sawyer is Director of Industry Strategy for Construction, at Trimble in the United States. Mark joined Trimble in 2012 as a result of its acquisition of Vico Software where he was President & CEO. Before Vico, he was President...
Posted on Tuesday 17 January, 2017
One of the goals for ‘Constructing our World’ is to showcase global construction technology and innovation trends. One organisation that has undertaken a significant study into this topic is Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
CSIRO's 2016 ‘Farsight Report’...
Posted on Tuesday 17 January, 2017
‘Constructing our World’ is the realisation of a vision seeded at a meeting in Sydney in August 2015. That meeting was the inaugural Tripartite talks between the New Zealand Institute of Building (NZIOB), the Australian Institute of Building (AIB), and...
Posted on Tuesday 17 January, 2017
2016 milestones for the NZIOB Charitable Trust included the creation of the Trust’s own website (www.nziobcharitabletrust.org.nz), and the addition of three high-profile construction industry leaders (Graham Stanage, Chris Hunter, and Phil Brosnan) as trustees.
With that preparation, the stage is now set for...
Posted on Tuesday 18 October, 2016
In collaboration with the Australian Institute of Building (AIB) and the Singapore Institute of Building (SIBL), the NZIOB is pleased to announce that the three institutes have agreed to stage biennial international construction conferences from 2017.
The first of those biennial...
Posted on Thursday 29 September, 2016
Dennis Burns (MNZIOB, CBP) has been chairing the ‘bim industry training group’, a consortium of NZIOB, NZIA, IPENZ, NZIQS and NZSTCF members who were provided with free training at the 2015 ‘BIM Best Practice NZ’ workshops. Dennis and Glenn Jowett...
Posted on Thursday 29 September, 2016
The NZIOB led bim101-an insight seminar series has now been completed, with the formal feedback received being overwhelmingly positive. A common theme in the survey responses was that there is clearly an appetite for the next installment, bim201.
bim101-an insight, by...
Posted on Thursday 29 September, 2016
In a timely follow-up to the bim101-an insight series, the upcoming Hilti sponsored seminars showcase BIM as an enabler of collaboration and productivity across the supply chain.
Presenters from Beca, Fletcher Construction, and Hilti ask; what does supply chain integration look...
Posted on Monday 29 August, 2016
The New Zealand Institute of Building (NZIOB) announced the winners of the 2016 NZIOB and GIB® Awards for Excellence last night (Friday, 26 August) at a gala evening at the Pullman Hotel, Auckland.
The awards, which are in their 23rd year,...
