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Nevhouse: Media Coverage of Vanuatu Launch
- Published May 12, 2016 4:44PM UTC
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Turning Plastic Waste into Housing
17th March 2016
Ahead of his “material transformation” presentation at the upcoming Green Cities conference, HASSELL principal Ken McBryde describes a novel solution to the waste and housing crises. Plastic is an amazing material. The first man-made plastic is considered to be “Parkesine”, patented by Alexander Parkes in the UK in 1856. Since then, Wikipedia tells me that more than 30 different forms of plastic have been developed, including PET, which was patented in 1941 – paving the way for all those plastic bottles – and polyethylene, used in plastic bags, which made their first appearance in the 1950s.
Designer Nev Hyman Creating Flat-Pack, Cyclone-Proof Housing for Vulnerable Pacific Nations
25th April 2015
For decades, Australian surfboard shaper Nev Hyman shaped boards for world champions, but now he is shaping something quite different: affordable, cyclone-proof housing. After launching three surfboard brands — the first in 1973 — Mr Hyman initially invested in plastics recycling.
Eradicating Plastic Waste One House At A Time
29th April 2016
IT’S a scene that often confronts avid surfers as they head to some of the most idyllic breaks in South-East Asia – rafts of plastic waste lapping at the shoreline around a busy harbour. For Gold Coast surfboard shaper and the founder of Firewire, Nev Hyman (pictured below), it was a call to action that led him to establish a social enterprise that only now is showing huge potential. Nev House, a company that recycles plastic and wood into a sturdy composite building product for modern housing, has just launched its first project in Vanuatu.
Disaster Housing Solution for Cyclone Ravaged Tanna
3rd May 2016
In an article published by the Vanuatu Daily on May 3rd 2016, Anita Roberts writes “Communities on Tanna that bore the brunt of cyclone Pam last year were the first in the south pacific to have been delivered with an innovative housing solution pioneered by Australia’s Nev House Company. Under agreement with the Vanuatu Government, the company has been constructing affordable, cyclone-proof houses to meet the lifestyle needs of the people, by replacing the semi- permanent buildings in any future cyclone.
Minister of Health wants nurse in first Nevhouse Clinic
4th May 2016
In an article published by the Vanuatu Daily on May 4th, it is claimed that the Minister of Health, Toara Daniel, has announced following his visit inside the house with the Director General, George Taleo, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trades, Commerce, Tourism and Industry, Joe Natuman, Minister of Infrastructure Jotham Napat, Minister of Internal Affairs Alfred Moah and other government dignities.
Spread in The Vanuatu Independent About The Launch on Tanna
Company Updates
BlackRock has named the next Economy. What this latest paper means for Private Market Investors.
BlackRock has put a name on something the smart money has been circling for two years. Its digital assets research team calls it the machine-native economy. The thesis fits in one line. AI is machine-native intelligence. Digital assets are machine-native money. Both are built on the same architecture, and they are converging into a single […]
Where’s the beef? Blackstone just answered the AI question.
In 1984, a fast food ad asked a question that became a catchphrase. Where’s the beef? Jon Gray, President of Blackstone, used that line this month in front of global LPs. It is the question every capital allocator is asking about AI. Trillions of dollars are going into chips, data centres and power. That is […]
The Best of Both Worlds: How Omnique Fund is Rewiring Real World Assets via Tokenisation
For decades, the playbook for Australia’s wholesale investors has remained relatively unchanged: pick between the slow-moving, illiquid reliability of tangible assets like property and gold, or chase the frictionless, high-velocity liquidity of public equity and digital markets. But as macroeconomic volatility spikes and a structural housing deficit reshapes private debt demand, sophisticated investors are demanding […]
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