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Here are six examples of circular construction in Australia and across the globe. Take Sydney's Quay Quarter Tower as a prime example. Known as the world’s first upcycled tower, it retained 65 per cent of the existing floor plates and 98 per cent of the core of the ageing AMP Centre, significantly reducing the embodied carbon by 12,000 t. What have we missed? Where else have engineers used circular design to promote sustainability in construction?

That’s a wrap on the The Australasian Structural Engineering Conference #ASEC2024. This two day conference featured panel discussions and plenary speeches. We covered off important topics such as engineering resilience, circular economy, innovation, and technology. Thank you to everyone involved for making it such a memorable event.

Yesterday, we joined Engineers Australia to appear before the Senate’s Select Committee on Energy Planning and Regulation. Our CEO Kylie Walker was there with ATSE Fellow and energy expert from The Australian National University Professor Ken Baldwin. Representing Engineers Australia were CEO Romilly Madew AO FTSE HonFIEAust EngExec and Power Systems Engineer Kate Summers, together presenting critical insights on the energy transition and the need for expert engineering voices in energy decision-making. Our submission to the committee explores pathways to improve Australia’s energy planning and regulatory landscape, focusing on reliability, sustainability, and innovation to meet future demands. 🔗 Read our full submission here: https://lnkd.in/gx54wdwu

Thanks to Zeba Salman for capturing the moment our CEO Romilly Madew and Emily J Hughes renewed our agreement with the Royal Aeronautical Society Australian Division. Yesterday's signing solidified our shared commitment to advancing aerospace engineering, science, and technology. We look forward to continuing our work together!

Last chance to register for EPSM / ABEC 2024! In Melbourne from 17-20 November, don't miss the Engineering and Physical Sciences in Medicine & Australian Biomedical Engineering Conference. Explore 5 streams and 250+ presentations: https://brnw.ch/21wNCHd

Secure your spot at this year's Engineers Australia Excellence Awards, held at Brisbane City Hall on 21 November 2024. Join us in celebrating the remarkable achievements shaping the future of our profession and Australia.

When Rio Tinto pioneered the use of a remote operations centre in mining in 2008, the main goal was to enhance productivity at their Pilbara operations, which was undergoing a major capital expansion program at the time. It was a strategy that used advanced monitoring and control technologies to optimise operations from afar, and shaped the way for the ROCs widely used today.

Yesterday we welcomed Kath Kyle, a local artist, and her husband, Barry, to Engineers Australia Sydney office to unveil and present a portrait of Kathleen Butler. Kathleen Muriel Butler, born at Lithgow in 1891, played an important role in the earlier stages of the planning and construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to the extent that John Bradfield, to whom she was Confidential Secretary, stated publicly that he doubted he could have built the bridge without her. They worked closely together on the project from 1912, when she was the first person appointed to the Sydney Harbour Bridge branch of the NSW Public Works Department. Throughout the 1920s Butler was widely known in Sydney as "The Bridge Girl", and "The Godmother of the Sydney Harbour Bridge".   In recent times, the Tunnel Boring Machine for the Metro under the harbour, beside her bridge, was named Kathleen in her honour. Kathleen Muriel Butler is the subject of a Blue Plaque placed by Heritage NSW at 44 Phillip Street on the old PWD building where she would have worked. The nomination for the plaque was made by Engineers Australia Sydney Division. For more information about the life and work of Kathleen Muriel Butler see: https://lnkd.in/gX22fbKu   Kath kindly donated the portrait in recognition of Kathleen Butler, noting that Engineers Australia is the most appropriate place to recognise a young woman so talented and so far before her time. We hope that Kathleen's story can serve to inspire young professional woman.

The ocean floor is filled with trillions of deposits of rare earth elements including lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel, aluminium, manganese and zinc. Engineers are devising ways to mine them at depths from 200-6000 m below the surface. Commercial deep-sea mining is not expected to begin until 2026, with the International Seabed Authority, which regulates activities in the seabed beyond national jurisdictions, so far issuing 31 exploration permits to 22 contractors. Closer to home, though, the practice is largely off-limits so far in Australia.

This weekend Monash University Malaysia made history, winning first place in the 2024 Warman Design and Build Competition! Competing against top teams from Australia, Malaysia, and New Zealand, they are the first team from their campus to secure the title. Held on October 26–27, the Warman Competition challenged nearly 90 mechanical and mechatronic engineering students from 16 universities to apply classroom theory to real-world engineering, designing innovative solutions to save the fictional planet of Gondwana.  Congratulations to all teams: 🥇 Monash University Malaysia 🥈 University of Adelaide, South Australia 🥉 Flinders University, South Australia 🏅 Special Awards: University of Technology Sydney (Weir Judges Award) and University of Canterbury (NCED “Best Design” Award) Thank you to Weir Minerals for sponsoring this 37-year tradition, which is coordinated by our National Committee on Engineering Design (NCED) and and Altair as our bronze sponsor. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gCWxWWmj UNSW Canberra, University of Newcastle, University of Southern Queensland, Deakin University, Edith Cowan University, The University of Western Australia, The University of Queensland, Griffith University Nathan Campus, University of South Australia, RMIT University.