The recent $321 million Government package aimed at driving research and development (R&D) for New Zealand businesses has already pulled one company out of closure. This is an encouraging outcome of the grant and has reinstated hope for business growth during the second half of the financial year.
FRAMECAD Solutions was one company awarded funding for [...]

A purpose-built house constructed mainly with steel shows great potential to resist the extreme heat of an Australian bushfire as severe as those in Victoria in February 2009.
The National Association of Steel Housing (NASH) designed the test house to examine the resistance of steel framed housing to bush fire. The CSIRO undertook the flame testing [...]

Be a part of the FRAMECAD Experience
Come join the action and meet with the FRAMECAD team at Design Build – Melbourne, Stand I1. Click Here to RSVP.
Australia’s largest and most comprehensive building and construction exhibition, Design Build will be held this year at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre from 23 June to 25 June [...]

Wayne Mapp, 16th April 2010
A new research and development facility opened in Auckland today by Research, Science and Technology Minister Wayne Mapp highlights a vital element of the Government’s plan for economic growth.
Steel-frame export company FRAMECAD has moved into new premises in Glen Innes as it starts work on the first of several new [...]

NICKY PHILLIPS
April 17, 2010
‘‘All the layers work together’’ … the house before, during and after the burn.
Photo: Stefan Postles
IT TOOK less than a minute for this new house to be engulfed by flames. Luckily no one was too upset to see it burn.
The house, built almost entirely of steel, was being tested to [...]

A self-contained mobile factory that produces steel frames for construction has been launched in Dubai by New Zealand company Framecad.
The Framecad Mobile Factory, dubbed ‘The Factory in a Can’, is housed in a modified 20ft shipping container, meaning it can be shipped, trucked or airlifted into any location and made operational within 24 hours of [...]

Batchelor Institute to get almost $600,000 to train inmates
SENATOR THE HON MARK ARBIB
Minister for Employment Participation
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery
THE HON WARREN SNOWDON MP
Member for Lingiari, Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health, & Regional Service Delivery
GERRY McCARTHY MP
NT Minister for Correctional Services
Minister for Employment [...]

Structural integrity tested
“In countries subject to seismic activity, building design, engineering and construction must be specifically tailored to withstand those unique environmental hazards and I think the world is teaching us about that,” says FRAMECAD Design Services Manager, Dr Darrin Bell.
“Just last year, the structural integrity of steel framed brick veneer homes was put under [...]