Infrastructure
Texas freeze spotlights need for forward planning
With record-setting cold weather cutting water and energy supplies across a wide swath of Texas recently, create asked Australian engineers...
Upgrading the Outback Way, Australia’s longest shortcut
The upgrading of the Outback Way, a 2700 kilometre road from Laverton in Western Australia, via Alice Springs, to Winton...
This former Winter Olympian is now delivering sporting infrastructure
An engineering degree and a career as a professional skier, made Scott Kneller the perfect person to manage the development...
State-of-the-art centre set to test the structural safety of Australia’s infrastructure
The largest of its kind in Australia, the new National Drop Weight Impact Testing Facility (NDWITF) is designed to improve...
Maintaining ageing infrastructure
The challenge in dealing with ageing infrastructure in Australia is that most of our structures are designed for a 50...
We’ve had fires, floods and pestilence, but is Australia prepared for the next earthquake?
Structural engineer Peter McBean FIEAust CPEng is on a mission to prepare Australia for the next earthquake.
CROSS-AUS aims to build a safer future by learning from past mistakes
CROSS-AUS has been capturing near misses and lessons learned in the building industry for two years. But there’s more to...
Watch this 85-year-old building ‘walk’ to a new location
When developers in Shanghai wanted to build on the site of an 85-year-old primary school, engineers devised a way to...
Incorporating Indigenous knowledge into infrastructure projects
Major infrastructure projects often sever connections between people and Country, but they also provide an opportunity to reconnect important stories...
Fifty years on from the West Gate Bridge collapse, what engineering lessons have been learnt?
Half a century on from one of the country’s worst industrial disasters, Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge collapse still haunts those...
