Coffee concrete cements RMIT’s lead for national research award
RMIT University’s coffee concrete innovators is leading in the popular vote for Universities Australia’s Shaping Australia Awards in the Problem Solver category.
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Boral supplying construction materials to NSW-based resort
Boral has been tapped as the major construction materials supplier for Black Rock Motor Resort, Australia’s first multi-million-dollar driving circuit and luxury resort at NSW’s Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle.
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Engineers Australia attends Federal Building Minister’s industry dialogue
Engineers Australia’s Head of Advocacy Caitlin Buttress attended the Federal Building Minister’s industry dialogue meeting to discuss updates to the National Construction Code (NCC) for 2025.
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Brisbane benefits from commissioning of $95M automated recycling plant
Rino Recycling’s fully automated construction and demolition waste plant is dramatically improving waste recovery rates in the Brisbane metropolitan area.
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Carpet fibres used to create stronger concrete
Australian engineers have found a way to make stronger, crack-resistant concrete with carpet fibres.
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Coffee in concrete used for Melbourne road upgrade
Major Road Projects Victoria (MRPV) and project contractor BildGroup have used concrete mixed with biochar made from spent coffee grounds, as a replacement of a portion of the river sand that is normally used, in the Pakenham Roads Upgrade.
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Visy and RMIT team up to turn waste glass into bricks
RMIT engineers have collaborated with Visy to make bricks that use waste glass and combusted solid waste instead of clay.
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Rio Tinto, BHP, BlueScope begin steel decarbonisation project
Rio Tinto and BHP will partner with BlueScope as part of an investigation into the development of Australia’s first ironmaking Electric Smelting Furnace (ESF) pilot plant.
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Steel supply contract awarded for QLD train manufacturing program
Beenleigh Steel Fabrications has won a $40 million contract to deliver structural steel for the Queensland Train Manufacturing Program (QTMP).
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Sand delivered to replenish Stockton Beach
Around 130,000 cubic metres of sand has been delivered to Stockton Beach, NSW, as part of a $6.3 million project to remediate the heavily eroded coastline.
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