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  • The licensed building practitioner scheme: another step in the New Zealand leaking building battle 
    Murphy, Chris (46th Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2012)
    The long-term proposal to license building practitioners, a reality from 1st March 2012, marks a significant retreat from the strong pioneering tradition of self-help building that historically has been a significant element ...
  • Action and Re action: home grown timber and imported prefabricated housing. 
    Murphy, Chris (43rd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association: Performative Ecologies in the Built Environment; Sustainable Research Across Disciplines, 2009)
    One thousand prefabricated buildings were imported in a systematic manner by the New Zealand Government from Europe and erected in the Titahi Bay area of Wellington and the Tamaki area of Auckland NZ. These kitset ...
  • The Factory and the Chicken House: Construction Experiments in 1950s Auckland 
    Francis, Kerry (45th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, 2011)
    A posthumous 1992 curriculum vitae for the Architect and Engineer, Richard Hobin records that during the period 1951-1953 he designed and built eight houses and seven factories in the New Zealand city of Auckland. Hobin’s ...
  • Polynesian housing in Auckland 
    Austin, Michael (UAL International Housing Conference, 2006)
    Auckland is sometimes called the world's biggest Polynesian city but Polynesians occupy only some of the suburbs. The original Ngati Whatua inhabitants have been swamped, not only by the European (Pakeha) settlers, but ...
  • From planning sustainable cities to designing resilient urban regions 
    Bogunovich, Dushko (Fourth International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning, 2009)
    In order to be ready for the harsh environmental challenges of the 21st century, cities need a new planning agenda. Defining this agenda is impossible without first revisiting the core concepts of our work: ‘sustainability’, ...
  • Auckland Waterfront: From a Local Political Compromise to the Global Environmental Agenda 
    Bogunovich, Dushko (43rd ISoCaRP World Congress, 2007)
    The central proposition of this paper is that at this very moment Auckland has a unique historic opportunity to make a radical transition to an environmentally sustainable way of building cities. The opportunity that has ...
  • Urban Sustainability 2.0: Resilient Regions, Sustainable Sprawl and Green Infrastructure 
    Bogunovich, Dushko (Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, 2012)
    Is there a way to convert the vast, fast growing, low-density urban areas of the world to sustainability other than attempting to contain the growth and increase the density of existing development - hoping that the ‘sprawl’ ...
  • Streaming the City: The Lucas Creek Park, Albany City, New Zealand 
    Bradbury, Matthew (2008)
    This paper investigates the making of a new public space on the edge of the contemporary city. The first part of the paper starts with a discussion of contemporary thinking about the urban conditions that are found on ...
  • Auckland WaterPark 
    Bradbury, Matthew (2006)
    Like many waterfront cities in the world, Auckland is experiencing the slow but sure transformation of a heavily industrialised and polluted harbour into a lifestyle zone of apartments and marinas. This paper discusses and ...
  • New Zealand quantity surveying practices – Continuing to adapt in a changing environment 
    Boon, John (COBRA 2001: The Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 2001)
    The management of four New Zealand Quantity Surveying firms is examined using a five part framework. Comparison is made between current practice and that observed during research in 1996. It is concluded that the firms are ...
  • An academic managing an IT project using construction knowledge 
    Boon, John (Project Management Institute of New Zealand Annual Conference, 2001)
    The author is a construction project manager with considerable experience who became an academic, teaching in the area of construction management about nine years ago. Since then he has widened his academic interests to ...
  • River flow forecasting using gene expression programming models 
    Fernando, Achela; Shamseldin, Asaad; Abrahart, Robert (HIC 2012 - 10th International Conference on Hydroinformatics: "Understanding Changing Climate and Environment and Finding Solutions", 2012)
    River flow forecasting models provide an essential tool to manage water resources, address problems associated with both excesses and deficits, and to find suitable solutions. With changing climate and environmental ...
  • Use of GIS to rationalise pressure in water supply systems 
    Fernando, Achela; Zhang, Xiujuan; Brown, N. (Rainwater and Urban Design 2007, 2007)
    Water is a valuable resource needing conservation. Excessive water pressure in water distribution systems causes leakages leading to substantial losses of treated water. It also places additional strain on networks reducing ...
  • Combined sewer overflow forecasting with feed-forward back-propagation artificial neural network 
    Fernando, Achela; Zhang, Xiujuan; Kinley, Peter F. (12th International Conference on Computer Science, 2006)
    A feed-forward, back-propagation Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model has been used to forecast the occurrences of wastewater overflows in a combined sewerage reticulation system. This approach was tested to evaluate its ...
  • Comparison of planning and consenting procedures for water resources projects in Sri Lanka and New Zealand 
    Fernando, Achela; Werellagame, Induka B. (4th Conference of the Asia Pacific Association of Hydrology and Water Resources, 2008)
    This paper compares and contrasts dam & reservoir water resources development projects between a developing and a developed country taking into consideration the drivers, approval processes, potential conflicts among ...
  • Comparison of two data-driven approaches for daily river flow forecasting 
    Fernando, Achela; Shamseldin, Asaad; Abrahart, Robert (MODSIM2011, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 2011)
    Ongoing research on the use of data-driven techniques for rainfall-runoff modelling and forecasting has stimulated our desire to compare the effectiveness of transparent and black-box type models. Previous studies have ...
  • Role of hidden neurons in a RBF type ANN in stream flow forecasting 
    Fernando, Achela; Shamseldin, Asaad (MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 2007)
    Although the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in hydrological forecasting is widespread, the use of ANNs is occasionally treated with some scepticism due to its “Black Box” nature. Their use has posed some discomfort ...
  • The effect of the raingauge distribution on stormwater models 
    Cooper, M.R.; Fernando, Achela (18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 2009)
    It is well known that the accurate representation of spatial variation of rainfall within a catchment is important in achieving reliable outcomes from stormwater models. Various guidelines recommend different densities of ...
  • An evidence-based predictive tool for motivating engagement, completion, and success in freshmen engineering students 
    Fernando, Achela; Mellalieu, Peter (22nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, 2011)
    In general, teachers deploy several methods to encourage their students to engage early with their learning during their course of study. These methods include: presentation of previous years’ pass/fail rates; feedback ...
  • Multi-model forecasting: Using gene expression programming to develop explicit equations for rainfall-runoff modelling combinations 
    Fernando, Achela; Abrahart, Robert; Shamseldin, Asaad (European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, 2009)
    Two previous studies have evaluated eight multi-model forecasting strategies that combined hydrological forecasts for contrasting catchments: the River Ouse in Northern England and the Upper River Wye in Central Wales. The ...