World Engineering Day: Taking action on climate change
As greenhouse gas levels continue to climb, climate change is occurring at much higher rates than anticipated, and its effects ...
Tag: risk management
Can hazard reduction burning and cultural burning protect against catastrophic bushfires?
We spoke with three experts to learn what role different types of burning can play in protecting Australia from bushfires. ...
Engineers must focus on resilience and adaptation when rebuilding after bushfires
As this summer’s horrific bushfire season stretches on, communities that have faced fires are turning their sights to what comes ...
5 ways technology will change the way we fight bushfires
As the incidence and severity of bushfires increases, new technologies are being devised to better defend people and communities.
Australian bushfires: A timeline of what’s happened so far
The 2019-2020 summer bushfire season started early and started strong. Here's a snapshot of some of the major events so ...
3 ways engineers can help with bushfire relief efforts
Here are three ways engineers can help with bushfire recovery in the short, medium and long term.
Firefighters are using VR and haptics to train how to face the real thing
Virtual reality and haptics are helping firefighters train in lifelike scenarios, and saving them from exposure to toxic retardants like ...
3 ways engineers are taking steps to protect people from bushfires
Bushfire season has started early this year, and fires are already burning along the eastern seaboard. New ways of protecting ...
How data analysis and AI could help engineers make our roads safer
More than 1200 Australians have lost their lives in fatal vehicle accidents in the past year. Algorithms that predict where ...
Automation is key to keeping miners safe while on the job, says one expert
One mining executive is determined to keep Australia’s underground miners alive on the job.
