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Four global trends set to impact engineering in 2025

As we step into 2025, the engineering profession is poised for transformation. Renowned futurist Bernard Marr’s trend forecast highlights global changes and points to the critical role engineers will play in shaping the future. From advanced digital tools to decarbonisation initiatives, these trends are set to redefine how engineers work, think, and innovate: The digital [...]

Green dots guiding truckies to more safe rest areas

The NSW State Government is boosting support for truckies travelling on regional roads as part of an $11.9 million investment to improve rest areas. To increase the number of identifiable safe rest stop options for heavy vehicle drivers and improve road safety in the state’s south, Transport for NSW has marked 14 new green reflector [...]

Keep investing in transport to support economy and living standards

Roads Australia has urged Australia’s governments to keep investing in transport infrastructure, amid the release of a new Infrastructure Australia report showing a sharp decline in funding for road, rail and active transport projects. Infrastructure Australia’s 2024 Infrastructure Market Capacity report, released in December, reveals that the investment pipeline for transport has declined by 10 [...]

Australia’s first luxury motorsport retreat to be built with Boral’s lower carbon and recycled construction materials

Boral has been tapped as the major construction materials supplier for Black Rock Motor Resort, Australia’s first multi-million-dollar driving circuit and luxury resort at NSW’s Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle. Built on a rehabilitated and repurposed former coal mine at Wakefield, the 252-hectare world-class facility will be constructed using sustainable and recycled materials supplied by Boral. [...]

Kia wins first UK award for PV5 van ahead of launch in 2025

The Kia PV5 has won the prestigious 'One to Watch' Award at the What Van? Awards 2025, ahead of the production-design reveal and ultimate launch of Kia's first electric van next year. The What Van? Awards celebrate the brands, businesses and organisations within the UK's light commercial vehicle industry that have reached the pinnacle [...]

EVX rolls out 17 dual kerbside EV chargers across inner-city Sydney

Electric Vehicle (EV) infrastructure company, EVX is continuing to deliver vital kerbside charging to Australia, launching 17 new chargers across Sydney. The new chargers are in inner-city residential areas where street parking is often the norm for households compared to parking at home. The new sites add to EVX’s growing kerbside charger locations across [...]

Report highlights alarming trends in driver fatigue and distraction across Australia

Seeing Machines Limited, a Canberra-based technology company, has released its 2023-24 Guardian Insights Report, revealing critical insights and trends in driver fatigue and distraction within Australia’s commercial transport and logistics fleets. Using naturalistic driving data from the company’s driver fatigue and distraction solution, Guardian, the report pinpoints and addresses the trends on risky driving behaviours. [...]

Learn more about the importance of addressing embodied carbon steel products

Focus on embodied carbon in construction and construction materials continues to ramp up, with new government initiatives to capture and reduce emissions. Since NSW and Federal Governments have introduced mandatory decarbonising infrastructure project policies, and the National Construction Code has introduced embodied carbon reporting from 2025 and minimum standards for embodied carbon from 2028, understanding [...]

Fusion Processing announces readiness for commercialisation of automated trucks and buses

UK-Based Fusion Processing Ltd, a leader in autonomous vehicle technology, gave a presentation at the recent CENEX event on why the time is now ripe to discuss the commercialisation of autonomous trucks, buses and material handling vehicles. With significant advancements in technology and regulatory frameworks, the company is poised to bring its cutting-edge solutions [...]

Where art meets infrastructure

Together with the integrated LED lighting options, DOLRE Low Stress bridge traffic barriers are now also available with the option of custom-designed architectural panels. Available in a wide range of colours and finishes, DOLRE architectural panels not only provide high quality ‘anti-climb’ protection for pedestrians using the bridge, they can also help to completely transform [...]

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