Our energy geek, Lloyd, is stoked that we have been selected to assist in the development of the Biomass Boiler standards for Standards New Zealand. We are joining the Technical Advisory Group that will develop the New Zealand publicly available specification for...
Ahikā has been assisting Pukaki Forestry to create a biomass business model using a 1,200 ha (hectares) of wilding forest in the MacKenzie area. The model being proposed by Ahikā is to harvest wilding trees and generate income via log sales while creating a secondary...
The collaborative recycling hub project between the Dunedin City Council and Otago Polytechnic opened for students on the 12th June. Ahikā is really proud of our fourth recycling hub, together with Zealsteel we have created a unique hub for the students to drop off...
Hilary is Project Manager of the Wakatipu Beech Seedling Project, photographed here, on site above Lake Wakatipu. The project is a community collaboration between the Wakatipu Wilding Conifer Control Group and the Wakatipu Reforestation Trust and aims to find viable...
We worked closely with our partners, ZealArt, to design, project-manage and build Dunedin City Council’s third inner city recycling hub for Dunedin residents. A massive thanks to Countdown for providing the site. Read more in this article from the Otago Daily Times....
We worked with Zeal Art (part of Zeal Steel) to complete the staff cycling facility in the library car park for the Dunedin City Council. It really is like a piece of art (and very functional).
We are so pleased to have been involved in the creation of Dunedin's first residential recycling facility that opened last week on Moray Place (bottom of View St). A lot of time and hard work went into many different aspects of the project. A big thank you to Marilyn...
We were privileged to host the National Good Food Network on Friday 10th February when they came to Dunedin for their annual Hui. WellSouth kindly donated their conference room, Taste Nature put on a special lunch, the MacNeille's showed us around their farm and Rory...
Whirika has been working with the Bioenergy Association to extend the highly successful Wood Energy South project into Otago and South Canterbury. Wood Energy South aims to lower energy-related carbon emissions, improve air quality and demonstrate the cost and life...