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Repowering a key consideration for wind farms reaching their end-of-life for unceasing benefits of wind power as a renewable and endless supply.

We plan for retirement, but what about our wind farms?

Owners and operators of first generation wind turbines must now decide what’s best for their ageing infrastructure: decommissioning, repowering or extending their life.

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Aurecon has partnered with AIPM addressing the role of project management in leading economic recovery and program delivery in Australia.

Specialist project management, the engine of successful economic recovery

Aurecon and AIPM highlight the importance of project management in Australia's economic recovery and in creating resilient infrastructure that is fit-for-purpose.

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Departing from COVID-19 – A flight path to recovery and reform of the aviation sector

Aurecon's white paper models the eventual reopening of Australian airports that have been designed to keep passengers and staff safe through and after COVID-19.

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Climate change is an uphill battle, but with our combined efforts and suitable mitigation actions we can minimise the damage it causes.

The role of data and ‘digital’ in climate adaptation across Asia

Data and digital decision-making technologies are key to helping governments and industries to adopt climate change adaption solutions in Asia.

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Zero-entry autonomous mining: Where’s my hoverboard, Marty?

Zero-entry mining is a vision of the industry to unlock the benefits of digital automation. How long until we see autonomous mining as mainstream operation?

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The underestimated challenge of an accelerated capital programme

Asset owners often fail to unlock the potential of an accelerated capital programme. What best practices can help them improve business risk and performance?

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How programmatic project management improves outcomes for cost, risk and business performance

Asset owners can deliver similar projects through a programme of common groupings to drive greater certainty for cost, risk and business performance.

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Criticality and risk as an approach to asset investment

Aurecon looks at how asset owners can identify the most critical assets that support their business strategy through the lens of risk to ensure the right investment.

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Reimagining healthcare delivery beyond COVID-19

Everyone has a fundamental right to high quality healthcare – this principle should guide the way we deliver health services during and after COVID-19.

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Australia’s resources and mining sectors and ‘threading the needle’ during a crisis

Can the resources sector lead Australia's economic recovery beyond COVID-19?

Australia’s resources and mining sectors have survived the challenges of the 2008 global financial crisis. Can they help our economy recover from COVID-19?

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How are asset owners are responding to COVID-19?

Recoiling or rebounding: how asset owners are responding to COVID-19

Asset owners need to adapt quickly to a rapidly changing operating context, while also ensuring that their organisations come out stronger on the other side.

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Data centres are critical infrastructures

Mission critical data centres and learning from a crisis

As demand for data connectivity rises during COVID-19, data centres have been identified as 'essential infrastructure'. What can we learn from this moment?

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Mitigating Heavy Industry Supply Chain Risk - 5 Critical Steps in Responding to the Impacts of COVID-19

COVID-19: five critical steps to mitigate heavy industry supply chain risk

As coronavirus spreads, it will likely lead to production and supply problems for many months. How do we mitigate the economic impacts to industrial business?

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Technological debt in our digital future: the cost of unmanaged data

Businesses must manage data in order to prepare for the digital future. There's a gap emerging between companies quick to move and those slow off the blocks.

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Consumers are no longer satisfied with not knowing where their food has come from.

Consumers lead the digital charge in the agrifood industry

Dr Ingrid Appelqvist and Aurecon's Hester de Wet explore how changing consumer demands will lead digital changes in the agrifood industry.

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Good models enable good decisions in asset management.

Good models enable good decisions: using digital to prioritise and manage assets

Aurecon's Neil Naismith talks to clients about a new way of approaching asset portfolio management, looking to new digital technologies to help make asset decisions.

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Asset owners are now turning to digitisation to deal with today

The importance of digitisation in asset management to stay in the game

Arjun Narang explores how a strategic digital approach is necessary to make informed business decisions.

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Data determined with purpose, connected to performance, and accelerated with technology, provides power to decision makers.

Data connected with technology and business purpose key to identifying assets that drive value

Aurecon’s Chris Needham and Elisha Bellchambers share how data connected with digital technology and business purpose can help organisations realise more value from their assets.

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Government needs to prioritise its infrastructure spend and look at ways to maximise the utility of existing assets.

Addressing the infrastructure gap in fast-growing countries

Francois Joubert, Aurecon’s Africa Lead for Asset Management, believes that asset management experts need to start looking at how we will accommodate the population of the future.

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Visual render of the Maribyrnong Bridge and Northern Tunnel portal for the West Gate Tunnel project.

Digital disruption through the tunnel

Aurecon's Cristian Biotto and Prakash Sabapathy discuss how digital engineering can present great innovation in physical tunnel assets.

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Five criteria of sustainable asset transformation

Aurecon Technical Director Pieter Scholtz discusses what it takes to ensure a mining asset's financial, socio-economic, and environmental sustainability.

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Risk exposure: A balancing act

Aurecon shares the eight-step process leaders can use to optimise risk exposure of their business.

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Symptoms of risk: Dealing with uncertainty

Aurecon discusses the importance of knowing how to identify the symptoms of risk along with understanding their effects on the business.

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Risk in context: Identifying blind spots

Aurecon defines the risk blind spot and shares how success can be attained by navigating and embracing uncertainty.

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Risks may be inevitable when forging a path to success, but they can be minimised through business optimisation.

Risk and reward: Top 10 tips on business optimisation

Aurecon identifies top 10 tips for business optimisation that minimise risk in high-risk environments.

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What if the last infrastructure in South Africa has already been built?

Does South Africa need more infrastructure? Francois Joubert shares how physical asset management can benefit SA's public and private sector.

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Finding your customers to reduce losses – a case study

Aurecon embarked on a PoC capture project with the Nigerian Power Sector in 2016 to facilitate loss reduction and improve its customer service.

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Is sustainable post-closure mine development achievable?

Aurecon’s Pieter Scholtz explores the possibility of achieving a sustainable post-closure mine development.

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Safeguarding asset utilisation is becoming more relevant in customer facing organisations in sectors such as transport, education, utilities and health.

Smart asset management for critical urban infrastructure

One of the major challenges with rapid urbanisation is there is not enough infrastructure to support the increasing number of people moving to cities every week. Abe Nezamian discusses how one of Aurecon's key offerings, Asset Management, aims to solve this problem.

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