Sustainability
This World Water Day, we spotlight our most precious resource — groundwater
World Water Day 2022: We demystify Australia’s most precious resource, groundwater, and why it’s so important we future proof it...
These solid blocks could help convert coal-fired power stations to completely renewable generators
An innovative form of energy storage could give coal-fired power plants a new and entirely green lease on life.
To build back wiser, engineers must demonstrate value
Engineers hold many of the solutions needed to tackle climate change and achieve the United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....
WED22: The future of hydrogen in Australia
For nations that don’t have enough solar or wind, hydrogen will be an important part of the solution.
WED22: Producing green steel
The engineering challenge in the production of green steel has been delivering hydrogen to an electric arc furnace in a...
WED22: Storing renewable energy
The downside of renewable energy, in solar and wind at least, is that when the sun is not shining or...
How engineers will enable net-zero emissions
As we approach UNESCO’s World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development, with its theme of Build Back Wiser, it helps to...
WED22: Commercialising soil carbon
Soils have been recognised as living systems that require certain biologically active conditions before soil carbon can be built.
WED22: Recycled concrete gives building waste a new life
Often, once a concrete structure reaches the end of its life, the only option for most concrete waste is landfill....
School student engineers solution to plastic pollution
When year 12 student Tamsyn Burley came up with a way to stop plastic pollution entering her city’s waterways, teaming...
