Confronting extremes
The world is facing more extreme and more frequent natural disasters — and engineers are among those on the front ...
Tag: flood management
How UNSW combined flood resilience with aquifer recharge
The perfect solution to this university’s stormwater management challenges arrived with the delivery of one of the world’s largest percolation ...
Floodplain engineer is bringing unique expertise to urban planning
Flood engineer Carrie Dearnley has developed a system to help city planners better understand how to keep communities safer as ...
From response to resilience: How engineers can help in the wake of extreme floods
The risk of extreme floods isn’t receding. Here’s how engineers can help build flood resilience in the short and long ...
What role do engineers play in flood management?
Severe floods and heavy rainfall have swept through south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales in recent weeks, killing at ...
How this engineer is using AI to save lives and property from floods
Minimising the impact of flooding on lives and assets with real-time insights, is the aim of a venture co-founded by ...
Experts show how technology can be used to respond to natural disasters
Australia could be smarter when it comes to disaster relief, technology leaders have told the Royal Commission into National Natural ...
Going underground to protect Sydney’s Green Square redevelopment from flooding
Heavy flooding was threatening the redevelopment of an inner-Sydney precinct. The solution involved hydraulic testing and kilometres of micro-tunnelling.
Rainfall guidelines reinvented for 21st-century runoff challenges
It’s astounding what can be achieved in 30 years of climate science. In 1987, the potential impact of global warming ...
New standards help keep Australia’s buildings standing come fire or flood
More than half of all buildings standing in Australia in 2050 will be built after the next update of the ...
