Entries are now open for the Competenz Most Valuable Coach (MVC) award — a brand-new nationwide search to honour the mentors, trainers, and workplace legends who go the extra mile for apprentices and trainees. Every […]
A fire technician and service supervisor receive Fire Learner of the Year Award gongs in annual awards that celebrate excellence across New Zealand’s fire protection industry. Hamilton-based Fire Technician Jithin Jose of Simply Fire Ltd […]
On the eve of International Women’s Day on 8 March, Competenz Te Pūkenga profiles Christchurch mother Loren Evans who is calling for more women to consider learning a trade. The 33-year-old is forging a new […]
The Fire Protection Association of New Zealand (FPANZ) has just published its February 2023 newsletter, its first for 2023. “We look forward to a busy and productive year, although the start to the year has […]
Fire NZ continues to be the largest and most influential fire protection event in New Zealand, and this year’s event – hosted in Auckland – is shaping up to be no different. Organisers of the […]
Dr Colleen Wade discusses the differences between the fire behaviour of timber and traditional building materials, the danger in applying current Acceptable Solution settings to mass timber, and issues with current fire ratings. At the […]
Dr Andy Buchanan talks about the need for an updated Building Code to address timber structures, the challenges of encapsulation for mass timber structures, and how a structural engineer discovered wood and fire. At the […]
Professor Charles Fleischmann talks about the challenges in researching the little-understood phenomenon of smoke explosions, or ‘backdraft’, and why fire safety needs to start in the home. Professor Fleischmann has been a part of the […]
In this extended interview with FireNZ Magazine editor Nicholas Dynon, Associate Professor Charles Clifton discusses the development of structural steel in New Zealand and the many challenges still facing the development of fire resilient buildings. […]
Kia ora and welcome to the September 2022 edition of FireNZ Magazine! FireNZ Magazine is the companion publication to the 2022 Fire NZ Conference & Exhibition, and is published by DEFSEC Media Limited on behalf […]
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