Ground-breaking test shows new low-damage New Zealand construction practice can withstand earthquakes

A team of QuakeCoRE researchers have just completed a significant test of New Zealand building construction that shows new design methods will withstand future earthquakes without the damage observed during the Christchurch and Kaikoura earthquake sequences. A two-storey precast concrete building was tested on one of the world’s largest and most flexible shake table arrays.

Te Aro Wine Launches Urban Wines

Te Aro Wine, Wellington’s first and only dedicated urban winery, releases its first two wines on Friday 28th September at Mean Doses Brewery, just around the corner from where the wine was made at Te Aro Wine’s Ebor Street winery.

Airbnb for Wedding Venues

Backyard Weddings is the first trusted community-based peer-to-peer platform for people to list and discover unique, privately owned weddings around New Zealand and Australia.

New Zealand's first online yoga website launches

With the global popularity of yoga, many Kiwis are exploring ways to move in this gentle style. But attending public yoga classes can get expensive and it’s not always easy to find a class that works with our schedules. A new online yoga website aims to solve that by sharing premium yoga classes via videos that people can follow along to anytime and anywhere.

FM Station Moves to Upper Hutt

Now LIVE from Mangaroa, New Zealand at 107.5 FM or world-wide at www.andhowFM. A world-class, always eclectic, commercial-free, indie, alternative, retro/vintage rock & more radio station. Where it’s ALL about the music!