The Influence of Aggradation Rate on Braided Alluvial Architecture: Field Study and Physical Scale-Modelling of the Ashburton River Gravels, Canterbury Plains, New Zealand

2009 ◽  
pp. 331-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Ashworth ◽  
J. L. Best ◽  
J. Peakall ◽  
J. A. Lorsong
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Physical Scale ◽  
Alluvial Architecture ◽  
Scale Modelling

scholarly journals Promotion of physical activity among children

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 09-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Skau Pawlowski ◽  
Jasper Schipperijn ◽  
Scott Duncan ◽  
Jens Troelsen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
School Day ◽  
Promotion Of Physical Activity ◽  
School Recess

New Zealand children are much more physically active during the school day than Danish children. As school recess is a large contributor to children’s overall level of physical activity, the aim of this study was to identify possible physical activity-promoting recess practices at New Zealand schools transferrable to Danish schools. The study was conducted as an ethnographic field study using participant observations and informal field talks with children and school workers at five New Zealand schools. On the basis of our findings we suggest Danish schools should further support physical activity initiatives by implementing physical activity-promoting recess initiatives.

scholarly journals Prefabricated Futures: Adaptable and productive construction methods for New Zealand dwellings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mitchell Holden
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Package Design ◽  
Home Owner ◽  
Construction Methods ◽  
Physical Scale ◽  
Scale Models ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Roof Panel ◽  
Traditional Construction

<p>The traditional construction method of the New Zealand home has remained largely unchanged over the last century. These housing solutions that have supported our nation no longer suffice and the ‘young home owner’ is becoming a distant dream. New Zealand needs homes, and fast. Specialised trades create fragmentation in construction. This results in inefficient processes that divide the stages of constructing a home. What lacks in these instances is accessibility to design. Architects tend to focus on one-off, bespoke builds, whilst transportable home companies create generic, minimum spec designs. It can be argued that current prefabricated solutions are not complete, requiring sub-trades and work onsite that causes delays and construction related setbacks.  Investigation into a key historic precedent has driven this research. This demonstrates that attempts have been made to change the housing model in New Zealand with some success. The precedent aligns with past notions in considering core parts of the home as products. This can create efficiencies in construction. The current demand for housing provides the perfect opportunity to reboot the method in which we build.  This thesis questions how offsite panel assemblies can create a complete prefabricated housing product and improve construction efficiencies. This will still offer architectural choice.  BIM (Building Information Modelling) and parameter driven design are used as a vehicle to demonstrate how more efficient, more collaborative and more controlled design approaches can be developed in order to create a complete construction package.  Design-led research involving constant scale model testing and development led to my prefabricated wall panel design. Named the LapLock panel, I have developed a complete wall, floor and roof panel product system. Designed to be fully fabricated from structure to claddings and services in factory. This produces ruthless efficiencies onsite. The work utilises BIM in the form of Revit and takes advantage of parameter driven families to allow for fast manipulation and output of drawings for panels. A constant conversation between analogue and digital tools (in the form of physical scale models and Revit) strengthened the understandings of the limitations throughout the research.  This thesis offers a new way of considering how New Zealand builds homes. By introducing adaptable and efficient panels that are complete on arrival to site, the Laplock solution provides accessible architectural choice to clients. This future-proofs the construction of the New Zealand home.</p>

scholarly journals Tutor stress: Perceived workload versus actual work hours of Polytech tutors in New Zealand and its relation to job satisfaction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghasanfer Zulfiqar
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Teaching Context ◽  
Perceived Workload ◽  
To Receive

The aim of this pilot study is to receive funding for a larger, nationwide conducted field study involving all 16 Polytechs in New Zealand. Perceived workload, actual work hours and and job satisfaction are to be measured initially for 5 Polytech tutors working in Applied business at NMIT Nelson using self-report questionnaires and a custom time-tracker app. A model has to be developed hypothesizing relationships between tutor characteristics; aspects of the teaching context; perceived workload; satisfaction with teaching; and four aspects of tutor stress: stress from administrative activities, time pressure, students and classroom conditions, and lack of rewards and recognition.

Field study of pesticide leaching in an allophanic soil in New Zealand. 2: Comparison of simulations from four leaching models

Soil Research ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 825 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Close ◽  
L. Pang ◽  
G. N. Magesan ◽  
R. Lee ◽  
S. R. Green
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Silt Loam ◽  
Weak Base ◽  
Monitoring Wells ◽  
Independent Test ◽  
Reduced Mobility ◽  
Leaching Models ◽  
Allophanic Soil ◽  
Soil And Water

Seven pesticides were applied to an allophanic silt loam along with a bromide tracer and their concentrations in soil and water monitored over a 2-year period. Inverse modelling was carried out using GLEAMS, LEACHM, and HYDRUS-2D to derive field-based mobility and degradation parameters. Hexazinone and procymidone were more mobile and more persistent than most literature values would suggest, whereas picloram and triclopyr were much less mobile but more persistent. The greater mobility for hexazinone, a weak base, and the reduced mobility of picloram and triclopyr, weak acids, are consistent with the effects of allophane. Mobility values for 2,4-D, atrazine, and terbuthylazine could not be determined with confidence from experimental results, but both atrazine and terbuthylazine appeared less persistent, and 2,4-D more persistent than literature values. A fourth model, SPASMO, currently under development, was used as an independent test of the optimised parameters. It performed well for the soil water concentrations but tended to overestimate the observed soil concentrations using the derived parameters. HYDRUS-2D simulations of bromide and hexazinone concentrations in the groundwater gave a good fit to observed data from 3 monitoring wells following a large recharge pulse.

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