Projects
Port of Melbourne project trades inner city trucks for trains
An ambitious project at the Port of Melbourne presented a number of engineering challenges, but the toughest one was hidden...
World-first Australian project repurposing mine pits for pumped hydro
Construction is underway on an innovative engineering project that will turn two retired mining pits in Queensland into a pumped...
Inside London’s ‘super sewer’
London is upgrading its sewer system to cope with its growing population, intercepting, storing, and transferring sewage waste away from...
Engineering Australia 108, the Southern Hemisphere’s tallest residential building
Bringing the tallest residential building in the Southern Hemisphere to the Melbourne skyline involved a lot of ingenuity — and...
Bold engineering will help build a new airstrip in Antarctica
Outside of the summer months, aeroplanes cannot land in Antarctica. With the Davis Aerodrome Project, the Australian Government proposes to...
How innovative engineering helped build a new island in New York
Engineers in New York City have used advanced 3D-modelling to help create a unique tessellated park over the Hudson River.
Constructing the first Aboriginal-owned satellite ground station
The first commercial satellite ground station to be owned by Aboriginal people has positioned First Nations peoples to be leading...
How the pandanus tree provided inspiration for this Queensland stadium
When it came time to deliver a new stadium to the city of Townsville, the winning design drew on the...
The engineering behind Melbourne’s groundbreaking Metro Tunnel project
As Melbourne's Metro Tunnel project enters its final stretch, create spoke to tunnelling specialist Paul Thomas CPEng about the challenges...
On a project as unprecedented as Snowy 2.0, the tunnelling machines are anything but ‘boring’
Three large tunnel boring machines have arrived in Australia to begin work on Snowy 2.0, Australia’s largest renewable energy project....
