3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (551+ words) Australia is facing a productivity challenge that is both urgent and structural. Across infrastructure delivery, energy transition, advanced manufacturing and housing construction, productivity growth has slowed, while project costs and complexity continue to rise. The fragmented regulatory landscape is not…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (857+ words) Tristan Flori-Hess (Executive Director Major Projects Delivery) and Dean Osborne (Senior Project Manager) at the BESS site The Northern Territory's power grid has undergone considerable transformation, powered by a new installation on an island in Darwin Harbour. Until mid-2025, the Darwin-Katherine…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (804+ words) Image: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2. 0, via Wikimedia Commons The Clock of the Long Now, developed by the Long Now Foundation and set to find its home in Van Horn, Texas, is one of the most ambitious long-term engineering projects ever…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (708+ words) Benalla Station works in January 2026, part of the Inland Rail project. Image: Inland Rail Pty Ltd Treasurer Jim Chalmers called the 2026-27 Federal Budget, his fifth, "the most important and ambitious " in decades. Engineers Australia welcomes the Budget's initiatives to bolster…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (808+ words) Construction on the West Gate Tunnel, a CIG project. Image: supplied When Andrew Rovers MIEAust and his team at Civil Infrastructure Group (CIG) watched more project work shifting to precast concrete, they faced a commercial threat that demanded a technical…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (789+ words) For more than a century, X-ray tubes have relied on the same core architecture: a thermionic filament heated until it "boils off" electrons, which are then accelerated at high voltage into a tungsten anode to generate X-rays. Since 2011, high-tech company…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1219+ words) Pearce inside the wind turbine at Mawson Station. Image: supplied As told to'Julia Abbondanza I have always known, almost instinctively, I wanted to be an engineer. My love of design began with architecture. As a kid, I would spend hours…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1014+ words) In the now-distant past of the 20th century, navigating while on a road trip was a physical task. Drivers used hefty books of road maps to help them find their way around the country, tracing their route page by page and…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (934+ words) Established standards have long ruled over the durability of hot dip galvanized steel, providing a consistent baseline for the estimation of corrosion trends and life expectancy of materials. However, those standards come with limitations, including the fact that they are…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (717+ words) Birkenhead Bridge and its fibre-reinforced polymer deck. Fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP) are increasingly favoured for structural repairs due to their high strength, low weight, and exceptional corrosion resistance. In harsh marine environments, these composites offer a distinct advantage over reinforced concrete,…...