Industry
Flat-pack homes promise stronger builds for Australian construction
Why wait months for a home when you can have one in days? This high-tech building system reimagines residential construction.
“The right thing to do”: Meet the construction company intent on Indigenous community engagement
During NAIDOC Week and throughout the year, engineers can make their lives easier by liaising with Indigenous communities.
Why failure is an option in the built environment
When executed well, safe-to-fail solutions in the built environment could prove to be the finest form of engineering.
Meet the team securing 100-year-old mine sites in the outback
The red and gold hills and plains surrounding the town of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory are a scenic...
A construction business’s culture must involve continuous risk management
When faced with increasingly complex infrastructure risk, Rene Burkart and his team look well beyond optimism bias to provide assurance...
High-stakes high rises and the engineers who bring them down
Modern demolition trades drama for discipline, with engineers applying rigorous calculations to ensure safe and predictable structural collapses.
Brisbane’s 85-year-old Story Bridge stands as an example of engineering excellence
Eighty-five years after its opening, the Story Bridge remains a defining element of the Brisbane cityscape, but it also stands...
Transmission tower failures on the increase
Increasingly powerful convective downbursts are causing high-voltage transmission towers to fail in ways we haven’t seen before.
This autonomous drone can roam the seas for months without a crew
Behind the scenes of the Bluebottle uncrewed surface vessel lies an idea that grew from a hobbyist’s experiment to become...
How to convince stakeholders to work with you in 7 steps
Struggling to get a stakeholder on board with your exciting idea for an engineering project or innovation? Use these tips...
