Paradise found: how engineering can boost tourism in Indonesia
Turning Indonesia's landscape into world-class destinations requires design-led thinking and flexibility in engineering planning, says Varman Ramachandran.
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Thinking by expertise - Environment & planning
What makes bird strikes so hazardous for global aviation?
Bird strikes to aircraft cannot be completely prevented, but the careful planning and implementation of dedicated systems may help to reduce these accidents.
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Ensuring the successful delivery of Africa’s complex renewable energy projects
Aurecon's careful and innovative planning methods ensure the smart and efficient delivery of Africa's renewable energy projects in the most suitable locations.
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The design of world-leading sports stadia
An exploration of the many technical and commercial techniques that interact to ensure the delivery of world-leading sports stadia.
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We’re all responsible for the big problem of the small plastics in our waterways
Our wastewater treatment plants have limited capacity to filter microplastics and its having a devastating effect on marine life and people's health.
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The case for timber in the construction industry
Aurecon’s Major Projects Director, Built Environment Ralph Belperio explains the potential of timber in replacing concrete as the material of choice in construction.
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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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Charter cities: What if we could start from scratch?
With the world’s urban population predicted to surpass six billion by 2045 many are asking how cities can cope.
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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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Smart transport modelling essential to Dubai’s future liveability
As a key part of its awe-inspiring vision to be a world leading smart and sustainable city, Dubai is developing a seamless and efficient transport network.
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Aurecon uses evidence-based practice for people centric design
People centric design – designing a building considering how occupants will be impacted – is a concept which many engineering organisations are committed.
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Gender in civil engineering – building an equal future
Alice Chang, Shamiso Kumbirai and Samista Jugwanth unpack some of the broader gender inequality issues in the civil engineering industry. They have collated thoughts and opinions from women across the industry, and hope to provide a fair view of the need for discussion, growth and change.
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Shaping New Zealand’s future with collaboration and community engagement
The Auckland City Rail Link in New Zealand is an extraordinary engineering feat that brought the best and brightest minds to the table to solve the project's biggest challenges.
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Is low-cost housing the future of urban living?
The demand for land and natural resources poses obvious threats to every sphere of city building, bending yesterday’s question marks into panicked exclamation marks over a sustainable future.
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How drones are changing the way we design, deliver and manage assets
Aurecon’s Ralph Loesche explores how drones are having a significant impact on how we design and deliver aspects of our built environment, which has the potential to change the way we live and work.
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Buildings of the Future: A Hong Kong Perspective – Data for Optimising Building Performance
Maximising the opportunity to improve building’s performance can usher Buildings of the Future in Hong Kong.
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Designing retractable roofs for multi-purpose stadiums
Professor Kourosh Kayvani explores the successful design of retractable stadium roofs in order to maximise both fan experience and all-important return on investment.
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We never know the true value of water until the well is dry
Aurecon's Dr. Verno Jonker and Dr. James Cullis discuss the increasing awareness of the real value of water across the globe.
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How the Internet of Things will change the future of waste management in Africa
In this article, we discuss how the Internet of Things will transform waste management in Africa.
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Cooling ICT environments: where to next?
Pete Greaves, Aurecon’s Expertise leader for Data & ICT Facilities and Ross McCarthy, Senior Mechanical Engineer at Aurecon, discuss the latest trends in cooling technology.
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High risk implementation planning for data centres
Data centres are strategic business assets facilitating the services a company can provide their customers.
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Project profiles
World-leading stadium design means thinking outside of the box to deliver innovative designs that maximise a stadium’s potential. Read more about some of Aurecon's world-leading stadia projects.
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People profiles
Meet the Aurecon team who are committed to delivering world-leading sports stadia.
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Aurecon’s World-leading sports stadia
The concept behind a sports stadium has come full circle, from a place to see your favourite athletes pitting their skills against competitors, to a modern Roman Colosseum where the public gather, clutching smart phones, for a multimedia and multi-sensorial experience! This is a field which Aurecon both works in and is passionate about. Our experts have built up extensive knowledge in this field through years of experience on some of the most iconic sports stadia ever created. This new series will share our people’s latest insights on designing world-leading sports stadia, including the technical and commercial techniques that ensure game-changing sporting facilities.
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Outsmarting tremors with earthquake resilient building design
Stephen Hogg discusses some of the new leading-edge and innovative earthquake-resilient building technologies developing from the Christchurch disasters.
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Integrated Systems Testing of Healthcare Facilities
The role and complexity of technology in health is increasing. Healthcare, technology and buildings are becoming more and more integrated.
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The living digital jigsaw
Aurecon’s Will Hackney says that the process of developing and harnessing ‘Information Models’ is the key to unlocking substantial value.
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Joined-up engineering – designing for people
The requirements of people must shape our buildings’ designs, and joined-up engineering is the tool that offers the solution.
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Should we earthquake-proof buildings in Africa?
Aurecon discusses the importance of considering seismic effects in the design of South African and other African projects.
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Value engineering: The key to achieving return on investment
Aurecon’s Ashley Underwood explains the importance of value engineering, especially as an project consultancy prerequisite.
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Building sustainable, mixed-use developments in the UAE
Louise Adams discusses the Middle East’s unique set of challenges and opportunities when creating large, mixed-use developments.
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Project profiles
Aurecon’s experts have built up extensive knowledge in this field through years of experience on some of the most popular hotel destinations worldwide. Read more about our world-class projects.
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Moving beyond green buildings – a focus on greening our precincts
Martin Smith and Marni Punt attempt to define this latest wave of thinking about sustainable precincts; explore how to achieve greener precincts; and discuss the rating tools that are being developed to add value to the precinct concept.
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Impact of freight transportation on our cities
Aurecon's transport leader discusses the potential impact of poor population growth planning on Australian capital cities and suggests major rail freight tunnels could be the answer to freight logistics problems.
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Creating efficient, liveable cities
In this interview, Deon Pretorius, Aurecon’s Land Development Services Leader in Cape Town, describes some of the barriers to creating efficient cities as well as current trends and the solutions and innovations Aurecon is leveraging to help our clients ‘get it right’.
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Protecting vulnerable communities: building bushfire resilience
Gerry Quinn, an expert in programme delivery at Aurecon, presents a case study on a project to identify mitigation measures that could be implemented to reduce risk from bushfires at schools in bushfire prone areas.
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The way forward on waste management
In this article, our waste experts relate how the Merafong City Local Municipality took bold steps towards ensuring sustainable waste management solutions, and shares lessons that can be learnt from their actions.
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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.
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Creating more compact bus terminals and interchanges
Buses perform an essential role to supporting the economic, social and environmental objectives of developed and developing cities.
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A new era of crucial focus on achieving increased sustainability
In this article, Jeff Robinson highlights a few of the emerging trends he believes have the potential to driver greener ways of going about our everyday lives.
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