Thinking by Expertise - Environmental & community planning

The vital community element in sustainable projects

The vital community element in sustainable projects

Increasingly, the emphasis on the sustainability of major projects has moved to engaging communities in order to catalyse self-sustaining growth and break the cycle of poverty. We asked Amelia Visagie, Training Projects Coordinator at Aurecon, to give her views on this trend and explain what it entails.

Expertise: Environmental and community planning

The role that EIAs are presently playing and can potentially play in promoting sustainability in South Africa

The role of EIA in achieving SD
Simon van Wyk

This paper delves into several sustainability theories with the aim of ensuring a sound understanding of the concept of ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’ which then poses the question as to what role EIAs have in promoting sustainability in South Africa.

Expertise: Environmental and community planning

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

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

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

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

HUB-id projects

Optimising land use, operational efficiency, light rail system, integrated urban design

Markets: Construction, Government, Property, Transport, Land development
Expertise: Environmental and community planning, Transport systems and logistics, Land infrastructure

Open channels

Jane McTaggart, Aurecon

On major projects, expectations around communication are greater than ever — both internally and externally.

Expertise: Environmental and community planning, Programme and project delivery

Skilling up

The Government of Malawi's Income Generation Public Works Programme (GPWP), Malawi

Truly successful major projects are those that attain the highest engineering and project management standards and add value by delivering effective skills development to communities.

Markets: International development assistance
Expertise: Environmental and community planning

Responding to natural disasters in the developing world

Paul Hardy

In this Face to Face interview, Aurecon CEO, Paul Hardy, talks with Peter Baxter, Director-General AusAid, about effective ways to support disaster response as well as reduce community vulnerability in the long-term.

Markets: International development assistance
Expertise: Environmental and community planning