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By their very nature, stadia and arenas are large and complicated buildings with a myriad of often competing interfaces.

Stadia design – busting the myths for better decision-making

Aurecon’s Global Structures Leader, Peter Ayres shares a few myth-busting thoughts about stadia design decision-making.

Major Projects Director, Built Environment Ralph Belperio discusses the benefits of timber in replacing concrete as the material of choice in construction.

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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Improving operational performance by bringing people back into data centres

For Aurecon’s Matt Gurr, human-centred design can define new approaches to improve operational efficiency in the data centres.

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Aurecon’s Francis Leung looks at the impact of BIM on Hong Kong’s construction industry and how greater understanding and awareness of the technology can help bring the industry to the digital age.

Bringing BIM into the mainstream in Hong Kong

Aurecon’s Francis Leung looks at the impact of BIM on Hong Kong’s construction industry and calls for greater understanding and awareness of the technology.

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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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Buildings of the Future: A series exploring key trends in the built environment

We are moving toward an increasingly digital, interconnected society, and with it, comes the realisation that everything we know will change. We invite you to join us on this journey of discovery as we build (pun intended) our knowledge, understanding and readiness.

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Building the digital estate

According to Aurecon’s Chief Digital Officer Andrew Maher, rushing it to digital without a fit for purpose strategy will pose more challenges than opportunities.

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Engineering smart nations

Cities like Singapore and Dubai have Smart Nation ambitions, and will need engineers to play a more active role in shaping the agenda.

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Aurecon’s John Webb shares how Buildings of the Future can fare against the existing building performance practices in Hong Kong.

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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Aurecon’s John Webb shares how Buildings of the Future can fare against the emerging space management practices in Hong Kong.

Buildings of the Future: A Hong Kong Perspective – Space and Talent

Emerging space management measures in Hong Kong can make or break Buildings of the Future.

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Aurecon’s John Webb shares how prefabrication can pave the way for Buildings of the Future in Hong Kong.

Buildings of the Future: A Hong Kong Perspective – Prefabrication

Hong Kong’s prefabrication trend in construction holds the opportunity to pave the way for Buildings of the Future.

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Skyrocketing home prices in Hong Kong: The cost of not innovating

Modern building methods and redesigning approvals process in Hong Kong plays a vital role in pursuing Buildings of the Future.

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Aurecon brought to life an ambitious design and sustainability outcomes included a unique, integrated structural facade system for the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.

Optimising environmental performance using building performance simulation

This paper, co-authored by Aurecon’s Quentin Jackson, explores how simulation can optimise the design and environmental performance of buildings.

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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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Understanding the economics of supertall buildings

We explore the economics of supertall buildings.

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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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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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Delivering a Better Australia

The plan outlines Infrastructure Australia’s released its plan with views on the key infrastructure priorities, reforms, and major projects for Australia.

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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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How small a room would you like?

Aurecon expertises Jeff Robinson, Stephen Olckers and Wouter Brand discuss changes in the trend with the size of rooms in the hotel industry.

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New road tunnel design delivers whole of life benefits

A new road tunnel design approach that provides owners with significant advantages during the operational phase.

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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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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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Traditional consultation is dead

Aurecon’s Joel Fredericks and Kylie Cochrane on the impact of digital technology on the future of consultation.

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Futuristic workplaces and the adaption of building services

Aurecon’s experts discuss Futuristic workplaces and the adaption of building services.

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Industry leaders explore the future of intelligent building design

Peter Greaves, Aurecon, discusses key changes in the way intelligent buildings operate, trends in the way they function and how these buildings will change in the future with two of Aurecon’s clients - Steve Coster of HASSELL, and Ben Crosby of Telstra.

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World Environment Day 2013: Reducing food wastage

On 2013’s World Environment Day themed “Think.Eat.Save”, Digby Hall, Aurecon Senior ESD Specialist, shares some challenging and achievable goals to reduce food wastage and improve communities negatively impacted by global consumption.

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Getting the most value from your facade engineer

Aurecon's Facade Leader Steve Daniels talks about what to consider to maximise facade performance.

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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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Tall buildings past and present trends

Aurecon's Kourosh Kayvani talks about the current trends and engineering considerations of high-rise buildings.

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Creating tall buildings with intent

Dr Andy Davids discusses creating tall buildings with intent: design, sustainability and usability considerations.

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Building for collaboration

Engineers Australia interviews Aurecon’s Peter Mathieson and Peter Greaves on a holistic approach to collaboration which was a focus in the design of our new Aurecon Centre in Melbourne.

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The forgotten elements of sustainable lighting design

Sustainable lighting design is more than achieving a watts per metre square target. It should consider the entire lighting system - from the materials used to the location of the manufacturers and the ongoing maintenance.

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A performance-based approach to allow design flexibility and improve stadia fire safety

An interview with Stephen Logan, Aurecon Technical Director Buildings on performance-based approach to allow design flexibility and improve stadia fire safety.

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Hands on approach ramps up efficiency of medical facility

The AUD 200 million South Australian Health and Medical Institute (SAHMRI), which will accommodate as many 675 of the world’s foremost scientists, is both aesthetically pleasing as well as a model of smart efficiency.

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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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Utilising BIM to its full capacity – a roundtable discussion

Stephen Logan, Leader for Building Sciences, Quentin Jackson,Service Leader for Environmental Modelling, and John Hainsworth, who leads its BIM team within Buildings, expand on what Building Information Modelling (BIM) really is, and open the window on its potential.

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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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Engineering Meteorology: Making informed decisions to deliver project solutions

Michael Green, Engineering Meteorologist, Aurecon, discusses how engineering meteorology can assist in project challenges and help improve the resilience of operational and infrastructure design.

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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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The end-to-end stadium fan experience

In their thinking piece, Aurecon’s Matt Magraith and Joseph Pirrello explore how technology, with a human-centred design focus, is transforming stadia into an end-to-end experience.

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Stadium roofs (un)covered: Designing long term value

Aurecon's stadia experts uncover how to design long-term value for stadia roofs as stadium owners are increasingly using roofs to breathe new life into their assets.

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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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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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Margaret Court Arena: A clever, multi-use makeover

Project Director, Mark Sheldon, discusses in depth how Aurecon and our project partners planned, designed and delivered this pioneering project.

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People profiles

Meet the Aurecon team who are committed to delivering world-leading sports stadia.

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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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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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Smart cities are transforming their stadia beyond legacy usages

Sports stadia – Smart cities’ transformers

Can stadia be places for more than major sporting events, a home for one’s team, a destination for a code’s followers and global symbol for Olympic Games? Aurecon's Kourosh Kayvani and Mark Sheldon discusses how these costly structures could be utilised for the benefit of communities and ensure a social ROI.

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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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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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Data centre design for unpredictable demand

Aurecon associate and electrical engineer, Matt Gurr, explains the key considerations of designing data centres for unpredictable demand.

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MeerKAT Karoo Array Processor Building in South Africa

Data centres – uncompromising and critical to business operations

Peter Greaves, Aurecon’s Competency Leader, Building Services, explores some of the unique challenges inherent in data centres design.

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Managing the data centre loads of today and the future

Peter Greaves and Matt Gurr discuss the increasing demands on data centres and explore how these facilities should be designed to accommodate unpredictable future data centres and expansion requirements.

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Welcome to Aurecon’s data centres for the digital age

The digital age has increased the demand for data centres that meet stringent security, energy efficiency, business continuity and productivity optimisation needs. In addition, data centres are also required to accommodate unpredictable future loads. The application of cutting-edge technologies and innovation has become a burning issue in the construction of data centres. With the emergence of digital engineering and the widespread use of Building Information Modelling (BIM), modular design and prefabricated construction will become more prevalent, and new builds and the operation of these will become more efficient.

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Designing data centres for the future

Design considerations for future proofing a data centre’s design involves foresight and understanding of a broad range of issues in the digital age.

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Data Centres - exploring the trend

Four of Aurecon’s Data and ICT experts explore the latest thinking surrounding the current and future state of data centres globally.

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Halal hotels: Catering for multicultural clientele

Jeff Robinson, Aurecon Principal Engineer and Hospitality Sector Leader, discusses the unique set of needs of Halal hotels in terms of design and service offering.

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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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Successful hotels

Aureon's successful hotels series will share our people’s latest insights on designing successful hotels, including the technical and commercial techniques that ensure leading leisure facilities.

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Technology in the hospitality industry – exploring the very latest trends

Aurecon’s experts look at some of the latest technology trends for the hospitality industry.

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The hotel industry: our experts discuss the mega trends

In this article, our experts expand on the current, increasing demand for hospitality industry services and the mega-trends shaping the hospitality industry.

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Airport thinking - Getting with the programme

On programme: Driving the best outcomes in airport development

Airport redevelopment projects have the potential to significantly affect operations and profits. John Mason and James Bennett outline why a programme management approach will ensure optimal outcomes for airport owners and stakeholders.

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All things considered: Delivering the international airport

George Reid, Technical Director - Buildings, talks about how engineering can support profitable and sustainable business models.

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Airports thinking - Overcoming environmental challenges

Overcoming environmental challenges to maximise profit

We discuss the solutions we have utilised to address some common design issues at airports.

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Hanoi International Airport

Aurecon was engaged to provide structural and geotechnical engineering to Terminal 2.

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Wellington International Airport - New Execujet Hangar and Carpark Precinct Upgrade, New Zealand

The New Execujet Hangar and the Carpark Building Upgrade were a part of WIAL's NZD14.9 million capital works expenditure in 2011.

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People profile: Jason Wozniak

Jason leads our Advisory team in New Zealand. With more than 15 years of industry experience, his focus is on effectively linking client business objectives to project objectives.

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Airnodes and the high performing airport

Designed as a landside capacity model influenced by airside demands, the model we call Airnodes can assess airport infrastructure to benchmark airport performance and current capacity.

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Airport terminals - designing for profit

Great design has the potential to significantly alter the profit equation of an airport and should be a key consideration from the earliest planning stages onward. Stephen Logan shares his insight on why designing for profit is so crucial in today’s operating environment.

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