Aurecon partners with Nomic to unlock AI potential
Aurecon’s partnership with Nomic harnesses generative AI's potential to solve complex client problems faster across the entire asset lifecycle.
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Asia Pacific engineering consultancy Aurecon has been recognised as a sustainability leader in the Professional Services category by The Australian Financial Review Sustainability Leaders List 2026 for its Environmental Planning Digital Ecosystem.
This marks the fourth time Aurecon has made the list, which celebrates organisations creating measurable sustainability impact.
Renene Windsor, Industry Director, Transmission & Distribution and Michael Drowley, Director, Environment and Planning talk about the importance of modelling biodiversity impacts and potential offset costs early. Watch the complete 3-part series on YouTube.
The recognition highlights Aurecon’s progress in helping clients improve certainty and reduce environmental and social risks on complex infrastructure projects by bringing environmental analysis into project planning, design and delivery decisions.
On large, linear energy transmission infrastructure projects, the approvals and biodiversity offset task is complex given it spans multiple bioregions and has a high degree of landscape variability, said Aurecon Industry Director Transmission & Distribution, Renene Windsor.
“With the right geospatial analytical tools and digital reporting, robust assessments can quantify potential impacts and inform design and modelling options to give more clarity to downstream operators.
“The same tools provide clarity on the biodiversity offset costs, and given the potential size of this cost, this is important in supporting privately funded projects to reach financial close. For example, the initial offset cost may be reduced whilst also providing a more sustainable outcome by devising a vegetation trimming and maintenance program over the asset life instead of full vegetation clearing.”
On HumeLink, a 365-kilometre transmission project in New South Wales, one of the digital tools automatically calculated the cut and fill material whilst selecting the least risk impacts required to construct 1,400 access tracks. The 3D tree canopy analytics tool calculated the volume of vegetation clearance required for the corridor option, which will provide the operator a choice of approaches to vegetation clearance. Another transformed data into an interactive digital Environmental Impact Statement accessible to community members and stakeholders.
The environmental planning digital ecosystem has evolved to incorporate biodiversity credit and offset modelling to inform biodiversity considerations related to route selection and siting decisions.
This helps clients understand potential biodiversity obligations and associated costs across project delivery. The modelling is currently being applied to assess potential transmission corridors in eastern Australia to support renewable energy connections into the National Electricity Market.
“To date, the integrated ecosystem of tools has been applied on complex infrastructure projects across Renewable Energy Zones, transmission lines, wind farms, water infrastructure, and electrical substations,” said Windsor.
Explore how digital tools and early biodiversity offset modelling can reduce risks, optimise routes, and improve cost control for Australia’s energy transmission projects. Watch the complete 3-part series here.
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Aurecon’s partnership with Nomic harnesses generative AI's potential to solve complex client problems faster across the entire asset lifecycle.
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