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Community garden

Embracing urban sustainability

Alistair Coulstock

Developing a systems thinking approach to sustainable cities.

Markets: Energy, Renewable energy, Water
Expertise: Building sciences

Mobility in urban environments

Biking in the city
Leigh Dawson, Richard Hanslip

Finding an optimal balance between community needs and economic benefits of the urban expressway.

Markets: Transport, Urban transport
Expertise: Environmental and community planning, Transport systems and logistics

Innovations in heavy haul operations

Full ore wagons being unloaded through tippler rail

Rail Express talks to Ken Devencorn, Aurecon’s Technical Director, Resources & Manufacturing Services about efficient planning and development of remote heavy-haul rail operations.

Markets: Transport, Resources
Expertise: Mining infrastructure, Rail

A new era of crucial focus on achieving increased sustainability

A new era of crucial focus on achieving increased sustainability
Jeff Robinson

In this article, Jeff Robinson highlights a few of the emerging trends he believes have the potential to driver greener ways of going about our everyday lives.

Markets: Property, Transport, Energy, Water
Expertise: Building sciences, Transport systems and logistics, Rail

Comparing institutional forms for urban water supply

Stephan Jooste

More than one billion people in the world today lack access to safe drinking water. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals’ initiative aims to cut this figure in half by 2015.

Markets: Water
Expertise: Water resources management, Water and waste water treatment

Sustainable solutions to South Africa's waste challenges

Dump site
Nick Mannie

Nick Mannie – Technical Director, Waste – was recently interviewed about finding sustainable solutions to South Africa’s waste challenges.

Markets: Government
Expertise: Environmental and community planning

Creating more compact bus terminals and interchanges

Christchurch Bus Exchange, New Zealand
Brian Smith

Brian Smith, Aurecon’s Technical Leader, Transport, explains how more compact bus facilities can better fit within constrained city centre locations and make for improved integration of transport and land use.

Markets: Transport, Urban transport
Expertise: Transport systems and logistics, Environmental and community planning

Tunnelling - delivering modern solutions with proven approaches

Tunnel excavation by roadheader on the Eastlink Project
Harry Asche

Tunnels play a critical role in the ongoing delivery and maintenance of the infrastructure required in an urbanising world.

Markets: Transport, Water
Expertise: Ground engineering

Silo technology - Of cones and codes

Silo
Hugh McKay

Over the past decade, a number of inverted cone silos have suffered well-publicised failures. In this article Hugh McKay, Aurecon's bulk handling storage facilities expert, looks at what steps can be taken to stop this occuring in the future.

Markets: Manufacturing, Resources
Expertise: Bulk material facilities, Asset management

Realising the dream - performance based design

Qatar Science and Technology Park, Qatar
Kourosh Kayvani

In the 21st Century, computer simulation has enabled architects to push the boundaries of urban design with lightweight architectural forms, random geometries and super-tall buildings.

Markets: Property
Expertise: Building structures