Creating concrete ideas from coffee cups
SPONSORED BY A research team at Victoria University is exploring using granules made of disposable coffee cups as a substitute...
10 podcasts that should be on every engineer’s playlist
With more than 2 million podcasts available to download, it can be hard to know where to start or which...
An inside look at rapid deployment water engineering
It’s late on a Friday afternoon and a worksite’s water pipe has burst, a rain event has caused inundation, or...
Threaded pipe technology simplifies trenchless installation
The ability to push and pull long sections of threaded sewer pipe leads to significantly less disruption for residents and...
Meet the dog that’s helping detect water leaks in remote Western Australia
Kep, Australia’s first ever water leak detection dog, and her handler Andrew Blair, can achieve in one day what takes...
Residential construction corrosion rates higher than expected, says new advice
Micro-environment corrosion tests are challenging assumptions in residential construction, according to the Galvanizers Association of Australia (GAA).
4 questions general contractors have about BIM
There are perennial concerns contractors have regarding building information modelling (BIM). A recent panel discussion between experts addressed them in...
Smart technology is recycling energy in Melbourne’s rail network
It takes just milliseconds to capture latent energy in a railway line and transfer it back into the grid. Global...
Automated vehicles: Plan now, switch on later
Australia still has the opportunity to lead the world in automated vehicles. The way we engineer infrastructure today is a...
Watch: The world’s smallest robot crab walks into the history books
Engineers from the US’s Northwestern University have devised a half-millimetre-wide robot crab that is the smallest-ever remote walkable device.
