The Solar Power Generation
Schools are a perfect fit for solar power generation because they use the bulk of their electricity when the sun shines. They also have their longest holiday during the sunniest months of the year so can sell power back to the grid. However the capital cost of installing solar power is […]
ACENZ Merit Award
Last Saturday (9 August 2014) at the ACENZ Innovate Awards of Excellence, Pacific Consultants were presented a Merit Award given in recognition of an outstanding project, for their excellence in building services design for the Willis Central project in Wellington.
Willis Central Project
Willis Central, the new Capital Centrepiece, is a unique double street-fronted […]
Do you have a commercial building?
Does your building have a peak demand between 20-500 kW?
Does the building have a standby generator?
Do you test it on a regular basis?
Would you like to turn the generator into a revenue generator?
If you answered “yes” to all these then Transpower’s 2014 Demand Response Programme may interest you.
Initial registration […]
Pacific Consultants is pleased to welcome Mathilde Girault to the Fire Engineering Team based in Auckland.
Mathilde was recruited from her home country of France where she was working as a Building Control Engineer with a focus on fire engineering.
Mathilde holds a Masters degree in Building Engineering and has had vast international work experience in building […]
The Creative Engineer – What can you do to spark new ideas?
As engineers most of our work is controlled by codes and standards but as a professional engineers we are expected to be able to analyse and develop solutions to complex engineering problems. Complex problems by their very nature often fall outside the realms […]
Fostering Tried and Tested Creative and Innovative Solutions
Engineers need to be creative and innovative to deliver the dreams, hopes, aspirations of society and solve their problems.
Aidan Huang has written an excellent article on fostering creativity and innovation in the design process –
While innovation cannot happen without creativity, creativity doesn’t always lead to innovation. Creativity […]
Company Culture: Michael Henderson coins a phrase “Above The Line Culture” which promotes an engaging company culture, and the opposite “Below The Line Culture” which destroys it. He lists five key traits or characteristics of each type of culture.
Above the line Culture
When you participate in an Above The Line culture you will see and […]
LED lighting technology is fast approaching maturity. We are at a stage where we now specify LED lighting as a matter of course for certain applications.
Today, LED lighting can deliver colour temperatures ranging between 2700K (warm white) to 4000K (cool white) that maintain a very high colour rendering quality that are similar to fluorescent […]
The Ministry of Building Innovation and Employment (MBIE) have release the latest update of their New Zealand Building Code Fire Safety Compliance documents. These are effective from 1 July 2014. The old documents remain effective till 28 February 2015.
MBIE advise that the key changes to the Acceptable Solutions C/AS 1 to 7 are:
• The scope […]
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