Built Environment: General Websites

BRANZ is an independent and impartial research, testing, consulting and information company providing resources for the building industry.

The NZ Heavy Engineering Research Association (HERA) was established in 1978 as an industry owned, non-profit research organisation dedicated to serving the needs of metal-based industries in New Zealand. While the emphasis of its activities is on heavy engineering, HERA also services wider metals industry interests such as light-gauge steel, stainless steels, light alloys and metals-based composites.

With design and manufacturing driven by CAD/CAM and robotics support, we make sure our readers are kept up to the minute with technical articles and case studies from New Zealand and overseas to provide models for development.

Delivering transport solutions for New Zealand on behalf of the government.

Assists construction businesses to improve their health and safety culture; to control hazards and reduce injuries

Waikato Regional Council produces a wide range of publications on environmental issues in the Waikato region. These include guidelines, reports, policy documents, pamphlets and information sheets. Copyright in these publications is owned by Waikato Regional Council.
Also check out the rest of the site for other relevant local information.

WorkSafe New Zealand is New Zealand’s workplace health and safety regulator.
Our focus is to embed and promote good workplace health and safety practices. We are also the regulator for electricity and gas safety in the workplace and home.

Austroads Publications Online allows you to purchase Austroads Guides and freely download more than 600 technical and research reports. You'll also find the Austroads Test Methods, Pavement Work Tips, Specifications and Technical Notes here.

Online electrical engineering

This set of resources contains course and working notes accumulated over many years. Where possible references are cited, or at least the need for a reference. Some problems are provided, sometimes with answers

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists and inspiring girls around the world to follow their academic interests to a career in engineering.

The world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology

ICE is one of the world's oldest professional institutions. We promote the practice of civil engineering, and provide professional qualifications to members across the world.

PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness. These tests include student interviews and observation of simulation use in classrooms. The simulations are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded to your computer. All simulations are open source (see our source code). Multiple sponsors support the PhET project, enabling these resources to be free to all students and teachers.

The CRAAP Test is a list of questions to ask yourself about information you find online. It can help you sort the good from the bad.

Google Scholar includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals.