In 1981, Wellington Hospital's Total Energy Centre was the first example in service at a hospital in New Zealand, and …
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Millers Flat Bridge, opened in 1899, was the result of a drawn out process which was fraught with controversy. This …
The Wairākei to Taupō section of State Highway 1, opened in 1972, was one of the first parts of that …
The Wairākei Power Station, the world’s second geothermal power station and the first to utilise flash steam from geothermal water …
The Port of Tauranga, located in the Bay of Plenty on the North Island’s East Coast, is a natural harbour …
The largest steamship built in New Zealand, T.S.S. Earnslaw, is now one of the world’s last coal-fired passenger steamers. The …
A 67-kilometre-long race, begun in 1937, diverts water from the Rangitata River to irrigate 66,000 hectares of farmland. Designed by …
Ever since it opened on 25 March 1939, the Rakaia River Bridge (State Highway 1) has retained its title as …
Throughout the terrible winter of 1865, labourers began cutting a coach road from Christchurch through the Otira Gorge and over …
The New Zealand Steel Slurry Pipeline was an innovative step in slurry pumping technology. Built in 1986, it was the …
The production of steel from titanomagnetite sand had never been achieved before, and this plant at Glenbrook, South Auckland, is …
Prior to 1877, the citizens of Auckland had very inadequate water supplies and suffered huge losses from major fires in …
The Vacreator was invented in New Zealand by H. Lamont Murray. The initial development began in 1923 when Murray and …
Located by an unusually consistent reserve of high-grade limestone, the cement works at Portland, near Whangārei, is the only full …
Built for the New Zealand Express Company Limited in Dunedin and opened in 1908, this is an early multi-storey building …
