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Strength and speed for new bridge build
After a substantial slip destroyed a vital section of State Highway 25A in early 2023, NZTA Waka Kotahi prioritised the construction of a new bridge to reconnect towns on the Coromandel Peninsula. Any response needed to be quickly delivered, and a new 124 metre Taparahi Bridge was confirmed as “the safest to construct and most…
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An industry introduction
At the start of 2024, Metals NZ sent an introductory document to the Minister for Building and Construction. The BIM provided further insight into how a coordinated and collaborative effort will ensure New Zealand can achieve a truly sustainable future. Download the BIM here.
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Metals NZ CCO Second Emission Plan Submission – 20 June 2023
Climate Change Commission PO Box 24448 Wellington 6142 Tēnā koe Consultation: Draft advice on the second emissions reduction plan (2026-2030) Thank you for the opportunity to share the New Zealand metals sector’s concerns, priorities and aspirations in helping shape the direction of policy needed to enable a thriving, climate-resilient and low emissions Aotearoa New Zealand.…
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Lifetime carbon true measure of building emissions
The building industry needs to move away from carbon saving calculations focused on embodied carbon only and instead focus on lifetime carbon emissions for a true representation of emissions. This is part of the response from Metals NZ Chief Executive Rick Osbourne to an apartment developer’s claims of carbon savings from using timber versus concrete…
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Consultation opens for draft Advanced Manufacturing Industry Transformation Plan (ITP)
Public consultation on the draft Advanced Manufacturing Industry Transformation Plan (ITP) opens on 1 June 2022. The ITP is designed to fast track the growth and transformation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s advanced manufacturing sector. The sector already: Employs 10.7 per cent of the workforce (248,400 people) Accounts for 10 per cent of GDP ($24.1 billion)…
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Accelerating research into low-emissions steelmaking
Media release, 16 February 2022 Wellington UniVentures, New Zealand Steel, Robinson Research Researchers at Robinson Research Institute collaborate with Wellington UniVentures and New Zealand Steel to decarbonise steel. Researchers at the Robinson Research Institute have developed a novel technology which uses hydrogen instead of coal to produce iron and steel, a breakthrough step in New Zealand’s…
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It’s tough making predictions, especially about the future
CEO Rick Osborne updates the Australian steel sector on what’s happening in New Zealand. This piece ran in the December 2021 edition of the Australian Steel News (page 6) The Climate Change Response Act 2002 requires the New Zealand government to publish an emissions reduction plan by 31 May, 2022 setting out how the country…
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Metals NZ welcomes our new CEO
Media release 3 November 2021 Metals New Zealand is pleased to announce the appointment of Rick Osborne as the new Chief Executive. Rick has a track record of executive leadership roles in large, complex organisations including Telecom, Fonterra, Air New Zealand, Fletcher Building and most recently, Head of Commercial and Corporate Affairs, Māori Television. A…
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Manufacturers can operate safely in future pandemic
In this article published in subscriber channel Inside Resources, editor Gavin Evans reports on Metals NZ and Concrete NZ’s presentation to the the transport and infrastructure select committee on 21 October, 2021. The piece discusses how concrete producers and other building suppliers can operate safely during a future pandemic and the Government needs to shift…
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There is no timber first-policy
“There is no ‘timber-first’ policy. There is a policy to reduce the carbon impact of government buildings.” This is Minister for Economic Development, Government Procurement and Forestry Hon. Stuart Nash’s response to written parliamentary questions from Opposition spokesperson for Construction Tim van de Molen, inquiring into the government’s timber-first policy in June 2021. The minister…