Infrastructure
COVID-19 shows there’s a greater role for engineers in stopping the spread
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown engineers could be at the forefront of infection control for places like hospitals, offices and...
World Engineering Day: Designing cities for people
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the competing needs engineers around the world must take into account when working on the...
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...
