In today’s highly mobile and fast-paced world, we hardly need to be told just how transformative mobile devices have been over the past decade. According to mobile tech research team GSMA Intelligence, there have been more mobile devices in the world than human beings since 2014. Familiar even to the most non-savvy user, mobile devices …
Renewables rising despite policy blackout
The lack of a bipartisan long-term energy policy does not appear to be halting the push towards renewable energy in Australia. It appears that although the market is frustrated, financial factors and certaintyRead More
Cross-skills training
Constructionarium is a UK concept for giving practical construction exposure to late year engineering students and recent graduates through teaming to build a scaled down version of a notable infrastructureRead More
Celebrating three decades in style
Pace Cranes officially opened their new facility in Sydney’s southern suburb of Peakhurst on Thursday while celebrating the company’s 30th anniversary. The new workshop floor became a makeshiftRead More
Solving the logistics puzzle
The logistics of a construction project can be a pain in the proverbial for a principal contractor. The primary focus tends to be on how you build something rather than how you get the “buildingRead More
65 and going strong
Celebrating its 65th anniversary in October, crane manufacturer Sennebogen unveiled five new cranes at its head office in Straubing, southern Germany. Closer to home, managing director, head of sales AsiaRead More
OpenRoads paves the way for nature parks
Rachel Rogers, application marketing director for Bentley’s civil design, explains how Bentley’s OpenRoads design software created a trail system for Philip Island Nature Parks without impingingRead More
Best practice on the agenda for infrastructure in QLD
The Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia, Queensland (IPWEAQ) and ARRB Group recently announced that they had come to an agreement in which they will collaboratively seek to transfer bestRead More
The rising popularity of MEWPs in Asia
If you grew up in Asia like I did, seeing tradies scale towering timber scaffoldings, and later, metal cages at a construction site was a common sight. Not anymore. Mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs)Read More
30 candles in the wind
Paul Heeks has been around cranes for most of his life. Early in his career, he worked as marketing manager at tower crane icon Favco. At that time, Favco dabbled in mobile cranes without great successRead More