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The recycling of urban organics could showcase a circular economy Outdated Australian regulations have come under review. It will require a comprehensive, system-wide approach to quality management. Each stakeholder across the supply chain ‒ from waste producers to processors and end-users ‒ bears a critical responsibility in ensuring the efficacy of this cycle

Being prepared for anything from climate disasters to infrastructure failures makes resilience a necessity rather than a choice. First, look at reports from a webinar on March 17 by CMCC with Igor Linkov, an expert in risk prevention and management. Then follow the reports on resilience in infrastructure after an event on 27 March by Infrastructure NZ.

Companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks in a beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI.

If customers or employees lack trust in AI systems, they won’t use them. Trust in AI comes via understanding the outputs of AI-powered software and how they are created. In a 2024 McKinsey survey 40 percent of respondents identified explainability as a key risk in adopting generative AI. Yet only 17 percent said they were currently working to mitigate it

One of the largest firms in the global private markets industry invests up to A$1.2 billion to transform GreenSquareDC into a next-generation data centre platform in Australia , hopefully with spillover to New Zealand.

Development activity in non-residential real estate is slowing as large-scale projects initiated in recent years reach completion and add to the impact of a weak economic backdrop on occupier demand, according to Colliers

The Infrastructure Priorities Programme is an autonomous crown entity and operates as an independent and standardised process to identify proposals and projects that will meet New Zealand’s strategic objectives, represent good value for money and can be delivered. The second round of applications is open from 10 February to 17 April 2025.

Outlook by market and sector will vary, often significantly, leading CBRE to adopt “Steady Growth, Split Performance: Navigating a Multispeed Recovery” as the key property theme for AsiaPacific 2025

Lack of understanding at a governance level had led to poor decision making in Wellington, such as a focus on leak fixes as opposed to pipe replacement which, while politically palatable, is not a cost-effective approach

A report in the New York Times on the US bird flu pandemic says it is no longer confined to birds. For several years, the virus has been jumping from wild birds into wild mammals, and last March it was identified in cows for the first time.

The MailchimpCanvas8 Strategic Loyalty Playbook found that re-purchasing behaviour is not merely a manifestation of and love but the result of subconscious cues, steering consumers toward familiar choices. What marketers may interpret as devotion could, therefore, be motivated by something much more neutral.

Increase in amphetamine-type substances and opioids, Cannabis continued to be the most commonly detected substance in workplaces across the country according to the Imperans Report by The Drug Detection Agency

When textile waste in the EU was collected separately and no longer able to be disposed of with residential waste, recycling centres struggled to process the sudden influx of fast fashion. They looked for a new solution.

Toxic managers to avoid. We all feature to a varying degree on the list, even the author says he has a tendency to share a lot of what others are saying.

Supportive workplaces prevent burnout which means both workers and the companies they work for are winners.

Leading scientists from Italy and India meet to advance climate modelling and research using AI
