5 disasters that changed engineering in Australia forever
In the wake of tragedy, new standards were forged, regulations rewritten and entire systems reimagined. These five catastrophes didn’t just ...
Tag: natural disasters
“We dodged a bullet”: Australia might not be so lucky when the next Alfred hits
“Whenever engineers have near misses, they should learn from them and work out what to do if next time it's ...
Setting new international benchmarks in bushfire modelling and structural fire tunnel testing
Fire research: Australian academics at Victoria University are leading the world in gaining insights into bushfire and tunnel fire behaviour.
Are ideas about floating and flood-resilient housing beginning to sink in?
Flooding disasters have led to calls to prevent development in high-risk zones – and to recognise flood-resilient design in construction ...
What causes landslides? Can we predict them to save lives?
A civil engineering explores how landslides form and why predicting them can be so difficult.
New software for assessing and predicting geo-disaster risk
With climate change increasing the wrath of geo-disasters, this new technology can foreshadow the impacts – and help engineers to ...
Confronting extremes in a changing climate
The world is facing more extreme and more frequent natural disasters — and engineers are among those on the front ...
Satellites in development to help homes cut off by natural disasters
This award-winning engineer is developing a high-speed satellite communication terminal to help emergency services reach bushfire and flood-affected regions.
Could this apple picking robot provide a solution to Australia’s labour shortage?
Engineers from Monash University have developed a robot capable of autonomous apple picking that could help fill the labour gap ...
How phone signals could keep Aussies safe from bushfire smoke
A breakthrough study by Monash University researchers shows mobile phone signals could be used to measure the concentration of bushfire ...
