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July 24, 2015
Microsoft-Adallom deal poised to impact cloud security gateway market
Microsoft reportedly agreed to acquire cloud security startup Adallon for $320 million, which analysts say could spark major growth for the cloud security gateway market.
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Aliyun, Alibaba's cloud services unit, plans to expand its partner base as it grows in international markets, including the U.S.
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Microsoft partner conference highlights training
According to Microsoft, partners can expect the company to step up its training, certification, exam delivery and performance tracking efforts.
June 25, 2015
Hyper-converged systems raise IT staffing questions
The continued growth of hyper-converged infrastructure may raise more questions about staffing, rather than the technology, for enterprises.
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The fate of the enterprise data center
The growth of cloud computing has slowed down the growth of the traditional enterprise data center. According to research by Cisco, the industry will experience whopping growth in cloud data center traffic of 5.4 zettabytes between 2013 and 2018. Yet despite how "large and ungainly" it is, CIO expert Harvey Koeppel contends that the enterprise data center will likely stay with us for a few more years. But Koeppel also admits that it's hard to predict the changes that lie ahead for the typical data center, particularly taking into account factors such as digital business and the Internet of Things.
In this SearchCIO handbook, Koeppel offers CIOs and IT executives five tips on how they can prepare for this enterprise data center of the future. In our second article, CTO Niel Nickolaisen explains why running the data center of the future isn't in his docket -- he's leaving that to the specialists. Finally, technology writer Mary K. Pratt details how, while many organizations today are pursuing cloud-first strategies, plenty of CIOs have compelling reasons for choosing to still keep some services on-premises. Continue Reading
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John Fea teaches history at Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania, and is author of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction (Westminster John Knox).
A Life on the Left
Martin Duberman delivers the first biography of Howard Zinn since Zinn's death in 2010. He treats Zinn with kid gloves but does not completely shy away from criticism.
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Nicetas became bishop of his native city of Remesiana (Bela Palenka, Serbia). He was a close friend of Saint Paulinus of Nola, who praises him as a virtuous and learned bishop, gifted with a pure and priestly heart and with a clear-thinking mind. Paulinus also pays tribute to Nicetas' missionary labors across the Balkan Peninsula. Nicetas is now known mainly through his writings. In one of his works, The Vigils of the Saints, he encourages the practice of keeping a watch of prayer in the night. He cites the numerous direct or indirect references to this form of prayer in the New Testament, and invokes the examples of the saints. He also explains the advantages of this practice: "The quiet and solitude of the night make it a favorable time for prayer and most suitable for those who watch. With worldly occupations put aside and the attention undivided, the whole man, at night, stands in the divine presence." Nicetas also delivered a sermon on the importance of liturgical singing. In fact, he is believed to be the author of the Church's perennial hymn of thanksgiving, the Te Deum.
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spider pig awesome random is always good
Next time try not putting your fa***t voice please
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ummm that wasnt that funny... sry
Its an exercise in art
not a actual flash worth exibiting to people. Its too random and the blah blah blah by the skull gets annoying.
Id like to see something structured from you since you have decent art skills. You have potentiol. With more work, you could gain the caliber of Adam Philips
Animation was poor (but i've seen worse). It is random (which is good if done right). But when it comes the the 'hilarious' aspect, well i must have totally missed the punchline (was there one to begin with).
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My 38th chess problem is here:
An Asorski Original
White mates in 2
ELEVEN hours ago have passed.
No one dared to solve this simple 2-mover problem?
Come on!
CONGRATULATIONS to Caiello!
You have solved this problem!
One more tricky shot: 1. Bb3 is wrong. (Find Black's defense after 1. Bb3??).
How about pawn e4 to e5. Then knight c5 to e4. That is checkmate regardless of how black defends.
@Gimpalersan : The knight cannot move, it's pinned by black queen.
1. Ba2 also the answer?
1. Ba2? Bxa2!!
Find Black's defense after White plays 1. Bb3??
You got it Caiello!
White needs to reserve a square for the Knight on c5. The move 1. Bc4 did just that. Now 1. Bb3 is an obstruction to the Knight on c5 as after ...Qh4!! either 2. Nd7+ or 2. Ne6+ covers g4 (...Kg4!!) as shown by Caiello's post no. 5.
My puzzle does not resoond.is anyone else having problem's?
Thank's for all the different line's,I could not make any move's on my puzzle,you saved the day,good job figuring out all variation's,I was wrong on first move that I would have played 1.Nce6,but it block's white Q from covering g4,but looking back h5 is covering g4,where does black K have to move,K must move he's in check with Nce6,and Ra5,all spaces black K can move are covered,there is only three place's K can move 1.Kf5 covered by Ra5, 2.Kg4 covered by h5, 3.Kh5 covered by Rh3,that would make it mate in 1,What am I missing?Can someone see what I'm talking about,and tell me what I'm missing
1. Nce6+ is illegal. The Knight on c5 is pinned by Black Qf2.
My bad. I meant the other knight. Knight on d6 to e4. That is my fault. Sorry about that.
If 1. e5 (threat: 2. Nde4#) Black counters with ...Qxc5+!!
Then the white rook takes the queen and checkmates the black king.
Caiello bares it all. See post no. 17
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The temporary projects which popped up on newly vacant land around Christchurch after the earthquakes have a lot more value to a traumatised public than we may think.Dr Andreas Wesener, a lecturer in Urban Design at the School of Landscape Architecture has just published research on transitional community-initiated open spaces (CIOS) in Christchurch and says they have a range of benefits that might strengthen community resilience.His paper discusses benefits, possible long-term values and future challenges for community-initiated temporary urbanism in Christchurch."Resilient people have been described as being able to find positive meaning and display positive emotions even in times of crisis, and introducing positive stimuli and engaging in positive activities have been considered vital in distressing post-disaster situations," Dr Wesener says.There is evidence that people's participation in temporary projects has encouraged positive emotions and creativity, strengthened social capital, such as community gardens, and fostered community empowerment within a challenging post-disaster situation, he says."On an individual level, community members who lost jobs in the aftermath of the earthquakes reported that working on temporary projects had provided opportunities to cope with post-traumatic stress, remain active, learn new skills, establish new networks and in some cases job opportunities have been created."Even passive passers-by without direct involvement in community-led activities may experience positive emotions solely by noticing that ordinary people are recreating and rebuilding structures within a destroyed urban landscape."
SHAC Challenge 2015 – Call for Entries
Submit your design and be in to win prizes valued at nearly $1000 each!
Submit your design for a Methven, New Zealand, community bus shelter for approx 10-20 snow skiers and boarders waiting for the mountain pick up. The best designs using natural materials will win free entry to the March 2016 International Straw Building Conference to be held 3-9 March 2016, in Methven, New Zealand. See www.strawbuildconference.co.nz for conference details.
Natural Building means using minimally processed and locally available materials for building, examples include, untreated timber, rammed earth, adobe, earthen plasters, straw, hempcrete, and others. Natural Building also means using solar energy efficiently and effectively.
Submissions due: 2 November 2016, 5pm NZT
On one or two A3 sheets.
Please email your submission in pdf format (max 15MB) to [email protected]
- Methven, New Zealand – https://goo.gl/OrhMWh
- Either Skitime, Methven – https://goo.gl/MC3dwq
- Or, next to Methven Resort and the High School – https://goo.gl/fU3sW8
This site may have some high schoolers using the bus stop during term time.
Competition Objectives
- Provide a playful competition to help designers, builders and the public better understand the art and science of building.
- Promote design and build as a collaborative, evolutionary process
- Promote the re-use of materials and the use of natural materials
- Promote living well, with purpose, and with less reliance on money and resources
- Promote creative responses that do not require a large budget
Judging Criteria
- Use of natural materials
- Innovation
- Meeting competition objectives
Entry Requirements and Checklist
- Register for your submission number here (http://goo.gl/forms/mHp2mzsXe1)
- E-mail your submission to [email protected]
- Entries are individual or as a team of 2 people.
- Due Date – 2 November 2016, 5pm NZT [NZ time]
- Include a 150 word max description of the project in the body of the email
- Name your submission ProjectName.pdf
- The PDF A3 presentation sheets are what explain the project. This may include sketches, plans, elevations, sections, and/or photos of the materials or techniques to be used.
- Entries not to include your names or logos, only your assigned submission number.
- Submitted designs should be copyrighted by the author(s) under a Creative Commons license of your choice, suggested: "CC-Attribution" or "CC-Attribution-NonCommercial"
- SHAC reserves the right to not accept any entries.
- Best entries will be honoured with awards and prizes.
- All entries may be published by SHAC on our web site or other medium.
Thank you for your submission!
If Everyone Lived in an 'Ecovillage', the Earth Would Still Be in Trouble
We must swiftly transition to systems of renewable energy, recognising that the feasibility and affordability of this transition will demand that we consume significantly less energy than we have become accustomed to in the developed nations. Less energy means less producing and consuming.
An ecological footprint analysis was undertaken of this community. It was discovered that even the committed efforts of this ecovillage still left the Findhorn community consuming resources and emitting waste far in excess of what could be sustained if everyone lived in this way. (Part of the problem is that the community tends to fly as often as the ordinary Westerner, increasing their otherwise small footprint.)
Source: If Everyone Lived in an 'Ecovillage', the Earth Would Still Be in Trouble
Tiny home a true mansion
Her previous construction experience was a bookcase, but that has not stopped Lily Duval from building her own miniature house.
The 27-year-old is two months into the build, and is on track to have most of the construction finished in another couple of months. She is building her house directly on a trailer on communal land in central Christchurch. At 5.5 metres long, 2.5m wide and 4.2m high, Duval's house fits under the New Zealand Transport Authority's definition of a light simple trailer.
It requires no building consent.
Her house will cost $30,000 all up, which includes $8000 for the heavy-duty trailer.
via Tiny home a true mansion – news – the-press | Stuff.co.nz.
Interest growing for tiny homes
Christchurch man Bevan Thomas built his own "tiny house" from scratch last year and had seen "hundreds" through it over the past few months.
He believed the tiny house movement was becoming increasingly popular in New Zealand as people looked for ways to live with less impact on the planet, or to avoid being "tied to a half a million dollar mortgage".
"There's been phenomenal interest in it. It's surprising actually how well the concept is taking off."
Thomas built his moveable house after returning to Christchurch to look after family and finding himself at a loose end.
Tiny home at a tiny price | Stuff.co.nz
Stefan Cook is revelling in the fact his new home cost $438,000 less than the average Christchurch house price.
Cook has now finished building his 3.4-tonne home, complete with a mezzanine bedroom, living area, kitchen and bathroom. The house measures 8 metres by 2.45m and is 4.1m high.
It was built on top of a custom-built trailer so it could be moved and did not require a building consent.
Cook did not have experience in building but it took him only 12 weeks to get it to a "liveable" standard.
The building cost $22,000 – an amount he would save within two-and-a-half years by not having to pay rent – and most of the materials were salvaged from demolition sites, which helped keep costs down.
Student thinks small to beat rental trap
Christchurch student fed up with high rental costs is building his own "cottage on wheels".
Stefan Cook is constructing the 2.5 metre by 8m transportable house in a bid to beat the rising cost of student housing and survive the Government's withdrawal of student allowances for those undertaking post-graduate study.
The 34-year-old geology student at the University of Canterbury said he had been paying up to $160 for a room in a Christchurch flat during the first two years of his bachelor's degree and expected his $15,000 project would pay for itself within two years.
Dunedin: Test drive a Tesla roadster electric car
Range and Power – Tesla convoy comes to Dunedin
Otago Polytechnic this Sunday 11th Jan at noon. 0-100km in 4 seconds.
See https://www.facebook.com/LeadingTheCharge for other locations around New Zealand.
A new kind of kiwi road trip is amp'ing up, as four kiwi blokes: Steve, Jay, Carl and Nick travel from Cape Reinga to the Bluff in a convoy of sustainable prowess.
The group #leadingthecharge are highlighting the practical and sustainable benefits of using electric cars. To drive home their message they're cruising the length of the country in New Zealand's first Tesla Model S car, and its only Telsa Roadster. Va va vroom!
According to the group New Zealand is ideally situated to benefit from the uptake of electric cars. "After the dairy industry, the next biggest source of emissions is our vehicle fleet, and since over 70 per cent of our electrical power is from renewable sources, there're even bigger emissions savings with an electric fleet here than overseas."
On their way South the foursome are stopping in to charge up at Otago Polytechnic's workSpace. "We're delighted to support the initiative and vision of these four kiwi men," said workSpace spokesperson, Veronica Stevenson and "given our work in the sustainability and tech transformation space, workSpace is the ideal place for a meet, greet and test drive."
The goals of #leadingthecharge are three fold
- Charging – We aim to encourage private and public entities to roll out charging infrastructure all through New Zealand.
- Driving – We want people to get into Electric Vehicles. Test-drives, car sharing, renting, owning. We don't care how you do it; we just want people in these cars.
- Teaching – There are so many untruths circulating about EV (electric vehicle) technology. We want to share true, well-researched and transparent messages about EV and all the benefits of EV ownership for individuals and New Zealand as a whole
All members of the public are warmly invited to attend this unprecedented event. Bring a friend, or the whole family – it isn't often an event comes along that appeals to car enthusiasts and greenies alike.
WHERE: workSpace – A Block, Otago Polytechnic (across the road and up the grassy bank from the hockey turf on Harbor Tce)
WHEN: 1130am Sunday the 11th January
Veronica Stevenson: Story Strategist at workSpace, 027 4483036 [email protected]
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How traffic engineering standards can break our cities « transportblog.co.nz
It would not be too factitious to suggest that many traffic engineering standards seem to presume that land is free. It's as is if there are dutch pixies at the bottom of the garden who are manufacturing land from the sea.
One example of such a standard is the concept of the "design vehicle", which I will focus on for the remainder of this post. Of course there are many other examples of traffic engineering standards, such as minimum parking requirements, which have been discussed before on this blog and that also have hugely negative consequences. The reason I want to focus on the "design vehicle" concept is because it does not receive much attention. And also because it has a fundamental impact on so many things.
For those who are not familiar with the "design vehicle" concept let me briefly explain. The "design vehicle" is a phrase that typically describes the largest, heaviest (per axle), and/or least maneuverable vehicle that is expected to use a particular part of the road network. Naturally, the physical footprint required to accommodate this design vehicle subsequently defines most aspects of the physical road geometry, such as turning radii and pavement design. For this reason, the shape of our road networks is very much defined by the design vehicle that is chosen.
You can read up on some of the design vehicle standards recommended by the NZTA here. The design vehicle for the standard street is typically some form of medium rigid truck, such as what is commonly used to move furniture. I've illustrated the physical dimensions of this vehicle below.
Read more at: How traffic engineering standards can break our cities « transportblog.co.nz.
Students win national design award for 10sqm building | Scoop News
Students win national design award for 10sqm building
The design brief was simple – create a breakout space that didn't require consent and incorporated sustainability, and now four Otago Polytechnic Design students have won the national Sustainable Habitat Construction (SHAC) Pop-up Challenge for their design of an innovative and efficient ten square metre building.
Studio56 was conceived by third-year Design students, Dean Griffiths, Alice Perry, Nina Daniels and Charlotte McKirdy, and was developed to provide a unique learning and collaboration environment for both students and staff, within Otago Polytechnic's Living Campus – a vibrant community garden and a sustainable model of urban agriculture.
via Students win national design award for 10sqm building | Scoop News.
Where do you start a sustainable house?
So, you know you want a sustainable (healthy, efficient, affordable and desirable) home, but where do you start? I've covered the fundamentals of what makes a good energy efficient home, but these are details. What's the big picture? Where do you start a sustainable house?
Before getting too specific about your plan, here are some questions I recommend being able to answer:
- Why are you renovating/building/remodelling/looking for a new home?
- What are you most dissatisfied with at the moment?
- How many people are you building for?
- How much time are all these people actually going to spend in your home each day, each week, each month…?
- What do you want your weekends to look like?
- Describe your 'perfect day'. Who are you with? Where are you? What are you doing?
- Does you perfect day involve any of the following:
- Mowing the lawn
- Fixing a fence
- Painting a fence
- Cleaning windows
- Cleaning a pool
- Walking a dog
- Vacuuming
- Cleaning three bathrooms
- Painting the house
- Cleaning the house
- Going on adventures with your family
- Oiling a deck
- Blowing/sweeping leaves
- Gardening
- Relaxing by the pool
- Working a second job
- Being at the beach
- Harvesting vegetables and fruit from your own garden
- Watching someone else do any of the above
What's all this got to do with the location and layout of your dream home? A lot. Creating a better, sustainable place to live is about lifestyle. This is where you need to start.
When Natalie and I moved to Auckland our criteria for a place to live included:
- Walking distance to a primary school with a good reputation
- Walking distance to a train station and a train commute of 30 minutes or less
- At least three bedrooms, ideally four (Xavier, our third child had just been born, and we wanted to the option of a home office)
The next big question is about budget. There are two big questions here:
- How much do you want to pay each month to own and operate a healthy, safe home?
- How much money do have to design, consent, building and finish your project?
They're both related. The more you borrow, the more your monthly expenses are going to be. The more you invest on good design, insulation and solar power, the less your monthly running costs are going to be.
As painful, boring or frustrating as it might be, it's worth spending some time here. Most of the designers I speak to say that a client's true budget is one of the hardest things to pin down. Knowing exactly how much money you're wanting to spend and being honest about this upfront will save time money and disappointment by avoiding uneasy scope changes when you do start talking to a designer.
Read more at the excellent "Where do you start a sustainable house?."
How to: Get resource consent
What's it for?
A resource consent gives approval for things like the use or subdivision of land, the taking of water, the discharge of contaminants in water, soil or air, or the use or occupation of coastal space.
So you could say it's to look after the resources that will support not only your home, but the area you live in.
How do you get it?
You write an application that says why your project falls within the bounds of the Resource Management Act and relevant local regulations and policies, and you pay a fee.
In practice, most people get someone else to do that for them and according to Dr Roger Blakeley (chief planning officer for Auckland Council) there is an "expectation that you would employ a professional" for this process.
But when I looked into it, it was going to cost between $10,000 and $15,000 to get someone to write our application, so I wrote it myself.
Energy and the Sustainable House
Wetting and Drying of Timber Framed Walls
"It is well accepted that moisture is one of the primary
causes of premature building enclosure deterioration. Excess
moisture content combined with above-freezing temperatures
for long enough will cause rot, mold growth, corrosion, and
discoloration of many building materials. The four major
moisture sources and transport mechanisms that can damage
a building enclosure are (Figure 1, left side):
- Precipitation, largely driving rain or splash-back at grade
- Water vapor in the air transported by diffusion and/or air
movement through the wall (both to interior and exterior)
- Built-in and stored moisture, particularly for concrete or
wood products
- Liquid and bound ground water, driven by capillarity and
At some time during the life of a building, wetting should
be expected at least in some locations. In the case of a bulk
water leak, drainage, if provided, will remove the majority of
the moisture from the wall cavity. However, a significant
amount of water will remain absorbed by materials and
adhered to surfaces. This remaining moisture can be removed
(dried) from the wall by the following mechanism (Figure 1,
right side):
- Evaporation (liquid water transported by capillarity to the
inside or outside surfaces)
- Evaporation and vapor transport by diffusion, air leakage,
or both either outward or inward
- Drainage of unabsorbed liquid water, driven by gravity
- Ventilation by convection through intentional (or unintentional) vented air cavities behind the cladding
A balance between wetting, drying, and storage is
required to ensure the long-term durability of the building
2014 Challenge Winners
SHAC Popup Challenge 2014
2014 SHAC Popup Challenge winners have been announced!
The winners Mizu Tea House pops-up in busy, downtown Auckland to provide an escape from demanding daily life, and Studio56 is a Dunedin break-out space that provides a unique learning and collaboration environment.
Highly commended, Flowing Tyres is an urban garden like pavilion.
The teams are now working to build their projects. Which team will finish first?
Over 50 submissions were received from all over New Zealand. Teams worked to design a playful pop up structure to help designers, builders and the public better understand the art and science of sustainable building. Teams responded to the challenge to show how we all can live well with less need for resources. SHAC promotes design as a collaborative, playful process that generates and evolves good ideas. Winners receive a SHAC trophy, a mark of industry accolades.
About SHAC
[SHAC] is a network of designers, builders, engineers, and architects who want to build a better way. SHAC is addressing the need for a more sustainable built environment. We host competitions and workshops to find good ideas and connect people. We work on innovative small-scale building projects for clients and their community.
Tim Bishop, Coordinator, SHAC | 021 705 346
Laura May, Team Coordinator, Mizu Tea House | 021 118 6039
Alice Perry, Team Coordinator, Studio56 | 027 335 1654 –> Press Release
Naomi Thompson, Team Coordinator, Flowing Tyres | 022 646 2818
PopUp! – Sustainable Habitat Challenge 2014 Call for Entries
Photos and/or drawings of your pop-up structure due 20 August 2014 12:00 noon. On two or more A3 sheets. Please email your submission to [email protected].
What Pop-Up structure will you create? A sculpture, a shop, an office, a venue, a place to play?
Competition Objectives
* Provide a playful competition to help designers, builders and the public better understand the art and science of building.
* Promote design and build as a collaborative, evolutionary process
* Promote the re-use of materials
* Promote living well, with purpose, and with less reliance on money and resources
* Promote creative responses that do not require a large budget
Entry Requirements and Checklist
* Register for your number here
* Please email your submission to [email protected].
* Due Date – 21 Aug 2014 12:00 noon [NZ time] * 150 word description of the project in the body of the email [same as described below] * ProjectName-SubmissionNumber-A3.pdf
* ProjectName-SubmissionNumber-image.png [or .jpg or .gif] * ProjectName-SubmissionNumber-any other file [could be sketchup, pdf of photos, etc] * The PDF A3 presentation sheets are what explain the project. This may include sketches, plans, elevations, sections, and/or photos of the materials or techniques to be used.
* Entries not to include your names or logos, only your assigned submission number.
* In 150 words or less explain the following:
a) The project and its purpose, it's present and potential future uses.
b) Possible methods of construction
* Submitted designs should be copyrighted by the author(s) under a Creative Commonslicense of your choice, suggested: "CC-Attribution" or "CC-Attribution-NonCommercial"
* SHAC reserves the right to not accept any entries.
* Best entries will be honoured with awards and prizes.
* All entries may be published by SHAC on our web site or other medium.
* Thank you for your submission!
SHAC Awards 2013
Bella Bloomfield is the winner of the 2013 SHAC Competition held with Surf Life Saving New Zealand.
We saw a number of excellent entries from students and professionals from all over New Zealand for the SHAC 2013 Surf Life Saving Tower Challenge.
Bella's tower, the Portabella, most impressed the participating Surf Life Saving New Zealand clubs, their members, and SHAC judges. She also won the Otago Polytechnic Design Prototype Award and $800 in their 2013 grad show for this work.
Bella's Surf Life Saving tower design and prototype is now available for purchase from BB Cocoon Design
Furthermore, SHAC is pleased to announce that Mark Mismash has been awarded the "SHAC Research Leader Award for 2013″ for his innovative interventions in Christchurch communities.
SHAC | Tim Bishop | 021 750 346
Surf Life Saving New Zealand | Nick Mulcahy | 04 560 0334
Cocoon Design | Bella Bloomfield | [email protected]
Otago Polytechnic | 0800 762 786
New Brighton Creative Quarter, Christchurch, New Zealand
New Brighton Creative Quarter, Christchurch, New Zealand
more >>> Facebook, Photos , The Press, Facebook-Renew Brighton
Prefab | Modular | SIPS | Working Bee
Prefab | Modular | SIPS | Working Bee
Help us build a new home for Christchurch community organisations. Working bee this weekend [30 Nov and 1 Dec]. Sat 10-1, Sun 10-1, BBQ 1-3. 24 Walker St, CBD.Building using Structural Insulated Panels – workshop
Walker St Building Community – SHAC fromTim Bishop on Vimeo.
OPEN SOURCE: Overview
Specifications [Coming Soon]
Come help us make the Walker St Hub at 24 Walker st.
A new home for the following community organisations who want to help you realise your dream for your small business or social enterprise.
- http://www.csbec.org.nz/
- http://www.christchurchbudgetservice.co.nz/
- http://www.aras.org.nz/
- http://www.oneonone.co.nz/
- http://www.csbec.org.nz/justdollars
SHAC Green Roof Technology Demonstration
SHAC Green Roof Technology Demonstration, Christchurch, New Zealand
Open Source: Specifications [coming soon!]
Sustainable Habitat Challenge 2013 – Call for Entries
Design a subconsent Surf Lifesaving Tower.
Two or more A3 sheets due 30 Aug 2013 12:00 noon.
How are we going to live well, with purpose, with more community, and with less reliance on resources like materials and energy?
The SHAC Challenge is a way to learn about the building code, experiment with buildings, and to develop prototypes for our new built environment. We designers, engineers, architects, builders, and others will be creating our new built environment for the rest of our lives.
This challenge has entrants considering a a key future design need: structures that sit off of the ground, on potentially adjustable supports. How is the structure anchored to the ground? Are the anchors durable? When will the structure overturn?
* Provide a playful competition to help designers, builders and the public better understand the art and science of building.
* Promote design and build as a collaborative, evolutionary process
* Promote the re-use of building materials
* Promote living well, with purpose, and with less reliance on money and resources
* Promote creative responses that do not require a large budget
Design Requirements
* The building must not require building consent, as per the DBH discussion document. Example exemptions (daa – walls fences), (ga – decks), (i – 10m2 buildings), (j – veranda/patio/porch/awnings), (jb – pergola), (je – shade sail), (jf – carport), and (k – low cost / consequence). Exemptions can be combined.
* The building will provide for use as a surf life saving tower. It may also provide other use(s) now or in the future.
* The building may make use of recycled building materials.
* The building may make use of solar energy: eg, passive solar, solar electric, or solar thermal technology.
Entry Requirements and Checklist
* Register for your number here
* Please email your submission to [email protected].
* Due Date – 30 Aug 2013 12:00 noon [NZ time] * 150 word description of the project in the body of the email [same as described below] * ProjectName-SubmissionNumber-A3.pdf
* ProjectName-SubmissionNumber-image.png [or .jpg or .gif] * ProjectName-SubmissionNumber-any other file [could be sketchup, pdf of photos, etc] * The PDF A3 presentation sheets are what explain the project. This may include sketches, plans, elevations, sections, and/or photos of the materials or techniques to be used.
* Entries not to include your names or logos, only your assigned submission number.
* In 150 words or less explain the following:
a) The project and its purpose, it's present and potential future uses.
b) Possible methods of construction
c) List the exemptions used from Schedule 1 of the building Act.
d) How the project will be supplied with any electrical power, and water, if needed.
* You may choose to include a sketchup file. Or photos of projects underway are acceptable.
* Please submit all files electronically to [email protected].
* Maximum size about 20MB per email.
* Submitted designs should be copyrighted under a Creative Commons license of your choice, suggested: "CC-Attribution" or "CC-Attribution-NonCommercial"
* Judging will take place in September-November.
* Best entries will be honoured with awards and prizes
* Submitted designs should be copyrighted by the author(s) under a Creative Commons license of your choice, suggested: "CC-Attribution" or "CC-Attribution-NonCommercial"* Questions can be sent to [email protected], and answers will be sent to all registered teams.
* SHAC reserves the right to not accept any entries.
* Best entries will be honoured with awards and prizes.
* All entries may be published by SHAC on our web site or other medium.
* Thank you for your submission!
More on Surf Life Saving Towers from Surf Life Saving New Zealand >>> (PDF)
Help us advertise – please put up a poster for us: A3-PDF, A4-PDF
2012 Entries >>>
Surf Life Saving Towers
There are a range of surf lifeguard patrol towers currently in use throughout New Zealand, including:
· Patrol towers incorporated within clubhouse's (e.g. Titahi Bay); these are typically rooms which protrude from the clubhouse. They are common where the clubhouse has been built on the active beach or foredune.
· Standalone fixed structures (e.g. Muriwai Beach); these are solid structures, which are often built into the foredune. They have typically been used where the clubhouse is situated a considerable distance back from the beach (as such have limited view of the beach).
· Semi-mobile structures (e.g. Takapuna Beach); these structures are placed on the beach, and are self-supporting. They have typically been used where there is a surf lifeguarding service, but no club or clubhouse. These towers are removed from the beach (via crane) and stored during the off-season.
· Mobile structures (e.g. Piha Beach); these are driven on/off the beach daily.
The key functional requirements and intended benefits differ with each type of patrol tower. The particular tower a club/surf lifeguard service choose will depend on the need of the service and the funding available.
There are a range of different designs for each type of patrol tower, with many different examples throughout New Zealand. Surf Life Saving clubs have traditionally engaged a designer and/or manufacturer to produce their tower based on their needs and requirements.
Happy, Simply Project
Happy, Simply, Wellington, New Zealand
Happy, Simply, Wellington, New Zealand [$3,000]
Happy, Simply, Wellington, New Zealand
When is a vehicle a building? BRANZ Build May/June 2011
Intensive Urban Agriculture
I seem to get confused often by the word garden. I always think vegetables, but sometimes I later realise that people mean decorative gardens! When I was in Japan last month I specifically went to Kyoto because I heard it was called a garden city.
The Japanese were very hungry at the end of the second world war. Vast areas of the urban landscape had been destroyed. In the first 7 postwar years, three large earthquakes also contributed to the difficulties.
Intensive gardening and farming fills the suburban neighbourhoods of Kyoto. Groups of two and three story houses with private decorative gardens are surrounded by paddocks of vegetables and rice.
For a peppercorn rent, residents let a few furrows for their own use, or larger areas to sell to local shops.
The lack of fencing allows for small tractors and other machinery to be used and shared by many.
Kyoto is known for the garden city – for its decorative gardens – but I like the productive vegetable gardens.
Titahi Bay, Porirua City
Matthew ter Borg
Registered Architect
Box 30904
Earth Systems
Japan is fascinating. The Japanese are so respectful of everything -work, other people, the natural world. And they have so many rituals – for me it seems to be a way to relax. Together it makes for a human society that is synchronized with the natural environment. Their technology is very efficient and they husband their natural environment so as it produces so many useful things from urban land, rural land, and even the forests. Japan is about 130% the size of New Zealand. And they are worried that they only produce food for about 40% of their population. That is 48 million people!
In early February I visited Tokyo and Kyoto. Tokyo is the megalopolis – it has huge apartment buildings that extend as far as I could see from the 18th floor of my hostel. Kyoto on the other hand is largely 2 and 3 story buildings interspersed with many decorative gardens, temples, and productive fields.
I presented at the "Earth Systems Governance Conference Tokyo 2013" at the United Nations University. Yes I fell off my chair when I was accepted to speak at this conference!!
The conference is trying to raise the point that all of humanity is a system "governed" by written and unwritten, or formal and informal, rules and norms.
The conference did attract many presenters on top-down international relations and nuclear energy policy, however the project is also about "bottom up", grassroots changes in our human-made earth system.
It was a fascinating conference – I was astonished that the people that consider big global issues find what we are doing in Christchurch interesting.
Presently, in New Zealand, the current set of unwritten rules and norms say: "houses are very expensive; spending 5 times your annual income on your house is the best way to save for the future; building a house is best left to the experts; group action is ineffective; excellence and high performance is the sole realm of the highly trained professional; making positive change in your life is profoundly difficult and best left to the experts."
I presented on the emerging network of groups in Christchurch that are showing other possibilities and suggesting new norms. These groups are creating new possibilities and presenting new ideas that will likely lead to a more sustainable built environment.
One key idea is that we use volunteers and skilled people collaborating together. Another is that you don't need to be a highly trained person to start something.
There is an informal network of groups in Christchurch that have responded to the earthquake are rewriting the informal rules, and creating new norms. These groups include Greening the Rubble – [gardens can be anywhere!], Gapfiller – [life is a stage!], CPIT – [we are learning by doing!], Live in Vacant Spaces [there are other ways to access land!], The Concert [volunteers are effective, and it is very fun!], Rekindle [we don't have to throw those building materials away!], White Elephant [young people create and do!], Renew Brighton [a community can remake itself] Maybe one day the formal rules could change, in response.
Written rules also have an impact that was recently documented by Stu Donovan on transportblog.co.nz
The primary impact of local government regulations is not through the constraints they place on land supply (i.e. urban containment), but actually through the barriers they create to the development of more compact and affordable housing. Here's some examples of regulations pursued by local governments in New Zealand that seem likely to restrict the supply of affordable housing:
- Minimum lot sizes – i.e. "all ye who have less money shall be forced to purchase land you don't want."
- Minimum apartment sizes – i.e. "all ye who have less money shall be forced to purchase living space you don't want."
- Minimum parking requirements – i.e. "all ye who have less money shall be forced to pay for vehicles you don't own".
- Maximum height limits – i.e. "all ye who chose to live like rats are consigned to perish like rats – on the street."
- Heritage protections – i.e. "all ye who don't have the money to renovate a villa shall live elsewhere.
The Earth Systems Science Plan defines the five analytical problems of governance. The five A's, for short: Agency – to what degree groups and individuals feel like they can act to create positive change. Allocation and Access – how individuals and groups are allocated or access needed resources like land, housing, food. Accountability – projects are legitimated – how do we know about, participate in the decision making around projects that affect or interest us? Adaptiveness – how do we change or reorganize in response to needs? And finally, Architecture – what structure of organization allows for good outcomes in the other areas? For example, what type of command and control, what processes or procedures, or what norms?
In Christchurch we have a loose network of groups that come together for various projects as suits each group. Each group thus retains its own agency – the ability to act. There are no formal contracts between groups that restrict or prohibit action. Each group has a few energetic coordinators who harness the capacity of skilled professionals and keen volunteers/apprentices. No explicit coordination between groups is needed. Each group's actions are coordinated by skilled and resourceful coordinators who keep the momentum going.
Projects are "legitimated" when people volunteer to do them. Good projects are supported by volunteers. Employees do what their bosses say, but volunteers only work on things they believe in. More volunteers equals more legitimacy equals more impact. It is unlikely that an unpopular project will have a big impact, while popular projects will grow and grow.
And It seems that from this architecture of a loose affiliation of interacting groups, supported by a mix of volunteers and professionals, emerges a system that can support a more sustainable built environment. In other words it supports supports multiple groups to have agency, to have legitimacy, and to demonstrate other ways of allocation and access to resources.
Will this hodge-podge of groups lead to a more sustainable built environment? This is still to be discovered. I had an intuition that this was the case, and the conference introduced me to the academic literature further supports this case: That small, self-governing systems of local groups do effectively and fairly allocate limited resources. See, for example, the work of natural resource economist Elinor Ostrom.
We are prototyping possibilities for the future today!
Life in Vacant Spaces Office
Life in Vacant Spaces Trust Recycled Off-grid Office, Christchurch, New Zealand
Open Source: ConstructionDocuments
New Brighton Pop-Up Precinct
The New Brighton Pop-Up precinct has gotten off to a great start! Over 70 people from New Brighton were supported by 30 people that SHAC brought from around New Zealand. This included students and staff members from Unitec, CPIT, the Otago Polytechnic, and volunteers from The Concert.
More at Facebook: Renew Brighton, SHAC page or SHAC group
Scaffold Pavilion
SHAC Micro-Challenge – "Sustainable" office chair
A Sustainable Office Chair? $200 cash prize!
David McKay makes a convincing argument that 40% of our total energy use goes to make the products that we buy.
Announcing a SHAC Micro-Challenge – The "Sustainable Office Chair"
Please submit your sketch or photo of your practical and comfortable Sustainable Office Chair.
Is it one made from natural materials, or a durable and repairable chair that lasts for many years, or one made from entirely recycled products, or hand made, or made by a machine like a 3D printer, or a chair that is made from starch and dissolves when wet?
Judging: Chair must be practical, comfortable, suitable for your office, and "sustainable"
Please supply a photo or sketch and a short description, how to make the chair, and how is the chair "sustainable" – that is – supporting living well, with purpose, and with less reliance on resources.
Please email your submissions to [email protected] by the 24 October 2012. $200 cash prize for the best submission. Other prizes too! The judges decision is final. The best submissions will be exhibited publically.
Christchurch Festival of Temporary Architecture
The entries are in! Young designers from around New Zealand have come up with ideas for subconsent structures. What do you think of them? Leave a reply or comment: here! >>>
Photo Overview here >>>
Original PDFs here >>>
Living large with 10m2 buildings
Two 10 square metre buildings built rather close together. Eaves and awnings nearly connect the two buildings.
SHAC 10 sq metre Challenge Judging Criteria
How are we going to live well, with purpose, and with less reliance on resources like materials and energy?
The SHAC Challenge is a way to learn about the building code, experiment with buildings, and to develop prototypes for our new built environment. We designers, engineers, architects, builders, and others will be creating our new built environment for the rest of our lives. Lets have fun with this: Enter the SHAC 10m2 Challenge! – due 20 August 2012. [entry details…]
For example, energy is an important resource, and in New Zealand we presently use about 40% of our total personal energy for transport, 20% in the home and to produce our food, and 40% to produce the stuff we buy ( Scadden, p12 ). [Burning coal and oil in far-away, overseas factories].
Our new built environment will reduce our need for resources like water and energy by a number of methods. Our judges will consider entries according to these points, from technical improvements to projects that inspire creativity and support people so that they have understanding, energy, and the will to create. SHAC judges will take a wholistic approach in judging.
Judging Criteria
1) responding to a need
2) improving our knowledge, technical ability, and desire for durable, repairable stuff [from housing to cell phones], so that over time we have much less need to buy so much of it. Teaching young people how to design, build, and maintain buildings and things is a great start!
3) stimulating and developing knowledge, awareness, and use of small quantities of valuable renewable electricty.
4) reducing the need for, and facilitating alternatives to private automotive travel
5) reducing the need for, and facilitating alternatives to regular business travel
7) Stimulating the imagination and supporting groups of people to make progress on creating an environmentally sound and socially just society.
8) Exhibiting a quality and care of construction that inspires others to support, promote similar projects, and adapt and reuse your designs in future work.
F3 Artbox
F3 SiloStay
SHAC Awards 2012
Rebuild and Reuse – for the Whole House Reuse project Juliet Arnott –
Design – F3 Design
Community Development – Joshua Durrant, Jess Smale, Sophie Moore
Micro and Temporary Architecture – Gapfiller
Commercialisation – Danny Squires and Martin Luff ThinkRadical.Net
On the 2-3 May 2012, SHAC presented the 2nd annual workshop on micro-architecture at the Christchurch Polytechnic Student Centre. Sixty attendees discussed temporary architecture, simple buildings, and the reuse of building material.
"People cherish their culture through recycling" – those are the words of Wang Shu, the 2012 winner of the Pritzker architecture prize. The demolition of red stickered housing and CBD buildings does not have to mean the eradication of Christchurch's history or culture – nearly all materials can be reused in new construction, incorporating local memories and fusing the past with the present.
What is permanent in this land of earthquakes? In San Francisco, the Palace of Fine Arts was built in 1915 as a temporary building for the Panama-Pacific Exposition and still stands today as an icon of the city. From the cardboard cathedral to the convention centre – how long will they serve us?
"Simple buildings are key for affordability" said Canadian architect Brian McKay Lyons, recently interviewed on Nine to Noon with Kim Hill. Lyons, from Nova Scotia, says "simple buildings are what we farmers and fishermen build when we can't afford to get things wrong"
|SHAC Micro-Architecture Workshop 2-3 May 2012
Micro-Architecture Workshop 2012
- Kevin Low's Small Projects
- Chris and Ben's SPACE MoveableRooms
- GapFiller's Tati Design Competition and Temporary 10m2 Office
- DesignBoom's Small Houses
- Dwelle
- More Overseas and NZ examples at micro-architecture.shac.org.nz
SHAC turns spotlight on micro-architecture solutions
Temporary architecture, reuse of materials, community building and simple buildings are the themes of the 2nd annual Sustainable Habitat Challenge micro-architecture workshop, to be held at the CPSA building at CPIT on 2 and 3 May.
Christchurch builders, designers, architects, engineers and community members will discuss ideas, deliver presentations and facilitate workshops at the event, which brings together some ideas for the city's community-led regeneration.
Presenters including Mark Fielding, Juliet Arnott, Joshua Durrant, Jessica Halliday and Claire Benge will ask pertinent questions such as: What is permanent in our post-earthquake city? Using examples such as the cardboard cathedral and the convention centre – how long will Christchurch's buildings serve us and how can international examples inspire us?
In San Francisco, for example, the Palace of Fine Arts was built in 1915 as a temporary building for the Panama-Pacific Exposition and still stands today as an icon of the city. As 2012 Pritzker architecture prizewinner Wang Shu has said, "People cherish their culture through recycling".
The demolition of red stickered housing and CBD buildings does not mean the wholesale eradication of Christchurch's history or culture, but how can we reuse and recycle materials to incorporate local memories and fuse the past with the present?
Entry by sliding scale koha, and is free for students and young people. To attend simply register at www.shac.org.nz or phone Tim Bishop on 021 705 346. CPD points available.
Poster: Micro-Architecture_poster2012
Draft Schedule SHAC-Micro-Architecture-Workshop-DRAFT-Schedule
Zero-Energy House
Zero-Modular House. This is a group work, members include David Wong, Jacky Lee, Praveen Karunasinghe and Biran He. We all had different tasks to utilize individual strengths in this group project. My responsibility was to research about solar panels, obstruction masks, and all presentation renders.
Since this is a tech paper, we had done a great amount of research on renewable resources, such as the minimum amount of solar panels needed to generate enough for the household.
GapFiller 10m2 SHAC
The Gap Filler temporary office
In December 2011, a team of young people got together with a vision to build an office for Gap Filler using materials saved from demolition sites around Christchurch. The team developed the design over the summer and with many talented volunteers built the office in a week in January!
The design and build was organised by SHAC in association with the Regeneration and White Elephant charitable trusts. Many skilled and unskilled volunteers helped out – builders, architects, engineers, young people and the occasional passer-by.
All of the building materials are reused, with the exception of building paper, insulation, chicken wire, fixings, clear plastic cladding and 4 sheets of thin treated plywood.
The office has an internal floor area of less than 10 square meters. Our talented designers and builders believe that the office complies with the building code, and is warm, stable, resistant to moisture, durable, and supports fire safety.
This office is experimenting with new building techniques. The east and southern wall structure are made from reused shipping pallets, a technology developed by Mark Fielding of Solabode Ltd in Nelson. The southern wall is clad with reused printing plates kindly donated by the Christchurch Press.
This tiny office will stay here for approximately 3 – 6 months. Power will come initially from neighbours and then, from solar power. Wireless internet access will come from a kind neighbour. Once we leave this site, the office will be relocated on a truck to another vacant site in Christchurch. The internal floor area is less than 10m2 and did not require a building consent.
We are using this land with the generous support of Ascot TV, who lost their building on this site in the earthquakes. They are now located at 300 Colombo Street, up the road.
What's SHAC?
The Sustainable Habitat Challenge is a network of people designing and building more sustainable buildings and neighbourhoods. SHAC projects are educational in nature, teaching those involved new skills. The buildings they create are designed with non-profit group or charity in mind; in this case, Gap Filler. Gap Filler has been gifted this movable building which will be used as an office..
SHAC – affordable, delightful housing, micro architecture, simple building, and more… SHAC is about living well with less reliance on resources, and finding our purpose. See shac.org.nz for more info.
What's Gap Filler?
Gap Filler is a creative urban regeneration initiative started in response to the September 4, 2010 Canterbury earthquake, and revised and expanded in light of the more destructive February 22, 2011 quake. It is now administered by the Gap Filler Charitable Trust. See gapfiller.org.nz for more info.
Gap Filler aims to temporarily activate vacant sites created by the quakes within Christchurch with creative projects for community benefit, to make for a more interesting, dynamic and vibrant city. Gap Filler has done a number of projects to date around Christchurch such as a book exchange, painted pianos, a community space and petanque pitch in Lyttelton, and outdoor events such as cinema and live music. Two projects have been completed in Sydenham recently, too – the outdoor chess set next to Honey Pot Café and Wayne Youle's shadow board mural (working with Christchurch Art Gallery).
THANK YOU to: the landowners – ASCOT TV (especially Chris), Graham at ECO Framing, Barry Dowrick, CPIT and the Otago Polytechnic for the loan of many tools and Mark Fielding of Solabode Ltd in Nelson for the 5 prefab pallet walls and The Christchurch Press for the metal printing plates.
we thank you!
tim, clayton, barnaby, barry, lani, florian, ben, emma, ella, alice, amber, rachel, regan, felicity, alan, nick, seth, naomi, jules, the Australian group of young volunteers, ants, ann, nev, bob, dave, tarn, barry, darcy, Andrew, kyle, nastassja, Shayne, and kerry
Southern Demolition, Terra Lana Insulation, The Pumphouse [See Photo below], The Window Marketplace, Addington Demolition, Christchurch Demolition and Salvage, Clyne and Benny, Skelly Holdings, Dulux, Steel and Tube, White Elephant Trust and F3 Design, Solabode Ltd, Firth, and PSP
10m2 Challenge
- Kevin Low's Small Projects
- Chris and Ben's SPACE MoveableRooms
- GapFiller's Tati Design Competition and Temporary 10m2 Office
- DesignBoom's Small Houses
- Dwelle
- F3 Design's ArtBox
- The Marlborough Snug Sauna
- Bomun's Awhi Farms projects
- Bruce Thomson and ModPreFab's "Wood Cutters' Paradise"
- Chris Moller's Click-Raft, and wikihouse.cc
- Daiman Otto's Analog Structures
Wood Cutters' Paradise
For more information, contact [email protected]
Gapfiller Trust SHAC solar powered office!
Clean Energy Centre explores possibility of off-grid housing community
Taupo could be in for a new eco-sustainable housing community, reshaping the way houses receive heat, electricity, water, and use wastewater.
The New Zealand Clean Energy Centre (NZCEC) is currently investigating whether or not this would be feasible.
The community would use geothermal or biomass heat to heat homes; generate electricity from solar and wind sources; and reuse wastewater by drip-irrigating it to energy crops to provide future fuel for the community.
NZCEC said out of 75 people surveyed over the last two days, 33 had been in favour of the idea.
"The New Zealand public has demonstrated a keen interest in adapting their lifestyles to live in ways that are friendlier to the environment. They want to do their part to help maintain NZ's 100% Pure, clean green image, they want to find ways of reducing their energy bills, and they want to increase their control over energy supply security," says chief executive Rob McEwen.
He says the project would benefit Taupo's economy, enticing domestic and international migrants, especially Silicon Valley entrepreneurs looking to make New Zealand their home.
McEwen believes the pitch to these potential residents would go something like this:
"Taupo generates 75 times more clean energy than we consume (and thanks to geothermal, that ratio is growing). We have magnificent natural beauty (think of Taupo as the Tahoe of NZ), we have world class fibre optic internet, we have ample water, we are central to 75 percent of NZ's population, we are home to the NZ Clean Energy Centre and oh, by the way … Taupo is developing a comprehensive off grid sustainable lifestyle community."
He says the next steps are to further quantify interest, then develop the concept to include drawings of the proposed community, a 3D animated walkthrough, and costings.
One way to make it feasible would be to use semi-rural land on the outskirts of town so that homeowners' investment in the land would be lower.
"Another way is to negotiate reduced development contributions with council. Unlike a typical subdivision where council needs to put in a lot of infrastructure such as water, waste water, power reticulation and phone connections, none of those services would be required in an off-grid community," says McEwen.
>>> Clean Energy Centre explores possibility of off-grid housing community :: Idealog
Office to rise from the rubble
One person's rubble might be potential material for Gap Filler's new office.
Sustainable Habitat Challenge (SHAC) and ReGeneration Trust New Zealand are collaborating to build an office for Gap Filler in Colombo St, Sydenham, with the help of volunteers and as many recycled or sustainable materials as possible.
Gap Filler project co-ordinator Coralie Winn said she was humbled by the plan.
"It's a very generous gesture that they are doing this for us and also teaching young people building and design skills," she said.
Gap Filler, which emerged after the September 2010 earthquake, has overseen several urban regeneration projects, such as the Lyttelton Petanque Club, the "book fridge" and the painted-piano project.
It has been based in Winn's front room.
"Since November, we've hired a part-time helper, and people have been coming and going," she said.
"It will be great to have an office that's not at home. It would be quite nice to fill a gap with our own office."
SHAC's Tim Bishop said the frame of the 10-square-metre office would be built from recycled timber from demolished buildings, and the windows would also be recycled.
Waste polystyrene would be used for insulation, while the external walls would be constructed from wooden pallets usually used for transporting heavy goods.
"We want to show how to creatively reuse material left over from the earthquake. It's a bit of a test. A few things are going to be new, like nails and building paper," he said.
The project also aims to show young people that it can be easy and fun to build small buildings with sustainable materials.
Demolition and salvage yards, including Southern Demolition & Salvage, Musgroves and the Window Market Place, are also involved in the project.
The Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology is contributing equipment and helping to find a licensed builder.
The build will take a week, from January 23 to January 28.
Volunteers can sign up here.
via Office to rise from the rubble – the-press | Stuff.co.nz.
ReGenerating small, sustainable SHACs in the temporarily vacant sites of Christchurch
The ReGeneration Trust and SHAC (Sustainable Habitat Challenge) are keen to get rebuilding Christchurch. In January 2012, we'll be running a six-day building project – starting from scratch, we'll be working with builders, architects and a crew of young people to create a funky, recycled, moveable office for the Gap Filler project.
Gap Filler is a creative urban regeneration initiative that aims to temporarily activate vacant sites within Christchurch with creative projects, to make for a more interesting, dynamic and vibrant city. They've run a series of awesome projects, like the Lyttleton Petanque Club, Gap Filler Community Chess and the Think Differently Book Exchange.
We'll be building an office for Gap Filler, using as many recycled and sustainable materials as we can. Our aim is to demonstrate that anyone can build and create, all it takes is some motivation and a few practical tools. We also want showcase the possibilities of holistic sustainability –
small, well insulated, water tight buildings made from a mixture of reused, recycled and sustainable materials.
ReGen and SHAC are now looking for motivated people who are willing to step up, represent and take practical action for positive change. The Christchurch 10m2 Building Project in an opportunity for creative, hands on types to work alongside experts on sustainable building, to learn new skills and share ideas for Christchurch in the future. We'll be learning new skills each day and putting them into practice building walls, putting up roofs, cladding, internal lining, insulation and painting. And we'll be documenting the process with stories, film and photographs.
If you're a young person or a builder and you're keen to be involved, get in touch! Email [email protected] or [email protected]
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"Anyone can build an eco-home," he says, "but it doesn't solve anything. There is nothing to stop them turning up the thermostat. What's more interesting is the way people live and behave." So the Triangle has allotments and polytunnels where people can grow their own food, and a car club and a scooter club that make their use of transport less wasteful. He sees such things as more important than the design features of individual houses.
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Josh Johnson Signed: Will the Cincinnati Bengals Draft a Quarterback anyway?
With the signing of veteran quarterback Josh Johnson to a two year deal this week, the next big draft question has to be asked so that we can all wildly speculate: Will the Cincinnati Bengals draft a quarterback in the NFL Draft this year anyway?
It's obvious, thanks to two seasons of playoffs in two years that the Bengals believe that Andy Dalton is their man, so there will be no need for the Bengals to draft a quarterback early on in the draft and thus leaving room for what they actually need in the draft.
So the next question is: How much confidence will the Bengals have in Josh Johnson? This can be answered quite simply by looking at his stats. Johnson had five starts in four seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from the time he was drafted in 2008 until he was released in 2011. Johnson then signed with the San Francisco 49ers on a two-year deal before being cut before the season opener. Johnson then briefly signed with the Cleveland Browns on December 26th but was only with them for a few weeks before being released again. In his short career, appearing in 27 games but only starting in five, Johnson has thrown for 1,042 yards 4 touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
Quite simply, the answer is very little confidence. There is no reason that the Bengals should give Johnson anymore than a small amount of confidence at backup because unfortunately, he has not earned it. Unless quarterbacks coach Ken Zampese can work some magic on Johnson, then he will likely be the third string quarterback once again and from the looks of it, the Bengals will be fishing for a new quarterback in the shallow quarterback pool of this years' draft.
The Bengals will probably wait until the third or fourth round to draft a quarterback, plugging up the holes in the secondary, at running back and the offensive line first, but once they get down that far, there are a few back-up worthy quarterbacks for the taking.
The Bengals attended the Syracuse Pro Day at the beginning of the March and while there, they set up a meeting with the fifth-ranked quarterback prospect in this year's draft, Ryan Nassib. Nassib is the fifth ranked quarterback in this years' draft and if the Bengals can catch him at the end of the third round, the Bengals will likely draft him.
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[GAME][ADVENTURE] Space Quest - A trip to space.
Have you ever dream to travel to space? If yes, this game may fit you =) . Control a Spaceship to travel from planet to planet (sometime a galaxy) =) , and avoid enemies like shooting star or meteories. Simple and fun game to try. Download it yourself to discover how space it is =) .
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Google Play : https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...MHP.SpaceQuest.
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Good luck with the game!
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