Queensland stories
The device can trip in 10 milliseconds, helping utilities cut wildfire risk and reduce outages on rural networks across 35 countries.
Rio Tinto’s tyre-handling forklift operators are seeing safer, simpler controls after Hydraulink engineered a joystick system for the machines.
Visitors could soon sleep under the reef, as Queensland backs a GBP £1 million pontoon project expected to draw 160,000 more tourists a year.
The Oakey beef plant has cut natural gas use and wastewater odours, with biogas output now helping to offset drought-hit operating costs.
Micromobility could ease urban congestion, but cities still face safety, regulation and infrastructure gaps as e-bikes and e-scooters spread.
The semi-automated machine is helping a Sunshine Coast earthmover cut operator fatigue, improve accuracy and save material on a roadworks job.
Two exotic fruit fly detections in Auckland have raised alarm over possible trade losses, with apples, citrus and berries most exposed.
Doctors warn a surge in silicosis cases among stonemasons could overwhelm lung transplant services as Queensland intervenes.
New rules are set to steer developers towards better connectivity, data use and planning across greenfield sites, precincts and campuses.
Their software use has put six Australian infrastructure projects among 57 global finalists in Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure 2018 Awards.
Nearly 70 per cent complete, Brisbane’s 45-metre 25 King office tower has drawn fresh investor interest as Impact Investment Group seeks co-investors.
Construction of the 453-megawatt Coopers Gap project is set to create 200 jobs and power 260,000 Queensland homes.
Road spending is set to top AUD $20 billion this financial year, but rail projects may crowd it out after 2018 as costs rise.
Australia’s public works boom is nearing its peak, with activity forecast to fall next year as LNG projects finish and government spending eases.
Residents near contaminated defence bases say barriers to free PFAS blood tests are leaving them in the dark about exposure risk.
A five-day break from the social network lowered cortisol in a Queensland study, though participants also felt less satisfied with life.
Growing cities will need more than USD $55 billion in priority transport works over the next 15 years, Infrastructure Australia says.
Australian drivers less enthusiastic about autonomous vehicles than French and Swedish drivers, according to study by Queensland University of Technology.
iseek's growing number of Australia-based data centres has won it an appointment to the Queensland Government's ICT supplier panel.
A $35m contract has been signed for a submarine cable connecting Australia's Sunshine Coast to Asia and the United States.
