Infrastructure
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...
A seemingly simple solution makes building concrete bridges quicker, safer and cheaper
A simple but smart innovation in modular bridge design will be a boon for natural disaster-prone and remote areas with...
New roadmap paving the way to smarter cities
With the number of ‘smart city’ projects on the rise, Standards Australia recently released a roadmap to pave the way...
Banking on an infrastructure-led economic recovery
Infrastructure Australia has released an updated edition of its Priority List, with 12 new projects added to a pipeline valued...
Drones are giving engineers a better view of construction
A recent study shows how drone-captured data can be used to create a comprehensive idea of where, and how, new...
Auckland public transport project lays digital tracks to the future
The post-COVID transit landscape is unknown, but in New Zealand, Auckland public transport is moving forward with an ambitious rail...
