Ports, marine and coastal facilities are the hub and node of networks that support everyday lives, with the transportation and distribution of commodities, materials and people, provision of jobs, and access to export markets that ensure a country’s economic prosperity and security.

The design and delivery of these facilities needs to be able to withstand extreme weather events, the corrosive marine environment, protect marine biodiversity and facilitate quick responses with inherent flexibility and resilience. This requires smart capital investment decisions and an integrated approach across infrastructure ecosystems to create and protect value for stakeholders, customers, investors and communities.

This is when Aurecon’s design, engineering and advisory experience is combined to deliver solutions for the benefit of economies and communities:

• Ports – we collaborate with port authorities, asset owners and operators in bulk ports, container terminals and general cargo terminals to maximise productivity, resilience and agility, and extract value from assets.
• Marine – we assist governments, defence and national security organisations as well as the private sector to develop wharves, quays and jetties, and shipyards, to support national and international connectivity and security.
• Coastal – we work closely with clients to understand, design, control and manage coastal infrastructure to defend against sea level rise, protect marine environments, and develop urban infrastructure for coastal recreation.

With the ability to provide ecosystem-wide solutions, Aurecon owns our client’s challenges to ensure that solutions respond directly to their needs with infrastructure that satisfies existing and future demands.

Our difference

Aurecon asks the right questions, at the right time, to shape projects in the right way from the very beginning. Whether this is using data and analytics to optimise and sustain assets; increasing the productivity of operations; designing climate smart infrastructure for agility and flexibility; or ensuring that sustaining capital programmes create and protect asset value.

Our particular expertise in understanding how to scope plan, design and deliver port structures in the aggressive and exposed offshore marine environment remains a mainstay of our capability.

Our insights are shaped by the variety of projects that we co-create with our clients, from business cases through to detailed design, construction, maintenance and asset management:

Productivity
of operations

• Advisory and engineering to link data with delivery
• Address and resolve ecosystem-wide and value cycle challenges
• Define processes and systems that work

Build and sustain infrastructure

• Comply with regulations and standards
• Unlock value in the life of assets
• Design agile and flexible supply chain infrastructure

Navigate climate change and performance

• Understand the risks and priorities of transitioning to net zero emissions
• Protect assets and build community resilience
• Reduce the complexity
• Unveil opportunities to enable advantages
• Asset regeneration and reuse

A legacy for people and the planet

• Design for the future
• Enable smarter capital or asset management expenditure decisions
• Help communities and economies to thrive

Support
future industries

• Smarter ways to derive value
• Leverage disruptive technologies
• Define new pathways, products and markets

Setting the global design standard

• Spearheading guidance for structural resilience to climate change
• Knowledge and expertise in global maritime standards
• Representation on Standards Australia committee

Aurecon’s eminent people contribute knowledge and expertise to global maritime structure standards, including representation in the industry on the Standards Australia committee for maritime structures (AS 4997).

This follows similar contributions to the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure PIANC guideline Climate Change Adaptation Planning for Ports and Inland Waterways. This guideline is particularly focused on assisting developing nations and small organisations to manage the broad range of risks and opportunities that climate change will bring to ports.

What we deliver

With the increasingly rapid pace of change experienced in the markets in which we operate, there is an urgency to the completion of projects for our clients. We address this with a delivery ecosystem that includes smart and innovative design and delivery to ensure the continued operation, efficiency and productivity of ports, marine and coastal facilities.

By working closely with our clients, collaborating with stakeholders and technical experts, and developing industry partnerships, we help organisations achieve their goals and deliver projects that meet the needs of users both now and into the future.

Our services

We develop designs with process, technical, environmental and regulatory risk considerations to deliver safe, sustainable, risk-resilient and high-performing infrastructure and facilities.

Our clients turn to us for surety of delivery timeframes, design for safety, and the quality and innovation of solutions across: