Welcome to our August eNewsletter.

As an engineer, I would like to see our profession have a greater say and make a bigger difference in society.

I talked about this in a recent interview for Engineers Australia’s strength campaign, which aims to bolster the profile of engineers in the country. Click on the image on the left to watch this video.

The challenge of understanding the role that engineers can play in society applies not only in Australia, but also in the other countries in which Aurecon and many of our clients operate.

This eNewsletter features recent appointments, project updates, news on our community initiatives and our latest thinking.

Please contact anyone at Aurecon if you have any questions regarding the contents of this eNewsletter.

Best regards

​Mayfair on the Lake, Nile Breweries Mbarara Greenfield Brewery and Chota Motala Incremental Launch Bridge walked away with top honours at the 2013 CESA awards. Read more

Quoin Consulting Africa, a leading quantity surveying practice which provides quantity surveying, contract administration and management, project controls and procurement services to the mining, energy, process and heavy engineering sectors, merged its business operations with Aurecon as of 1 July 2013. Read more

Aurecon integrated risk management into each stage of the Centrex upgrade through the compilation of a comprehensive project plan based on the industry best-practice Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) system. Read more

Now officially opened, the Ban Phuc Nickel Mine Process Plant in Son La province, north of Vietnam, is one of the few remaining high-grade, near-term nickel sulphide projects, representing a unique platform to develop a significant nickel industry in the country. Read more

Aurecon’s Mining Infrastructure Leader Andrew Keith will be chairing a session at the Africa Down Under conference in Perth.
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Senior ESD Specialist Digby Hall will be presenting on ‘Sustainable communities by numbers’ at the 6th International Urban Design Conference in Sydney.
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Aurecon will be presenting seven papers at the Coasts & Ports conference in Sydney.
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Aurecon will have various speakers at the IMESA Conference 2013
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In this roundtable, four of our leading rail signalling experts in both passenger and heavy haul rail networks, talk about the issues facing the industry. Read more

Large mixed-use developments are gaining traction globally as the property industry realises that developing efficient, liveable cities requires the all-important integration of diverse functions such as residential accommodation with transportation and commercial opportunities. Read more

A roundtable discussion, held in Aurecon's Gauteng office in South Africa, on the differences between programme and project management and what is required to deliver programmes effectively at the highest level. Read more

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

NMIT Arts and Media Building, New Zealand

The multiple award winning Arts and Media building at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) is not only a first of its kind in multi-storey timber constructions, it also employs a world first in advanced damage avoidance earthquake design in the form of rocking timber walls.
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World renowned super tall buildings expert Dr Andy Davids joins Aurecon

Renowned tall buildings expert Dr Andrew (Andy) John Davids has joined Aurecon as Tall Buildings Leader and Technical Director, Buildings. He held complete design responsibility for the Burj Khalifa, which is currently the tallest building in the world.
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Aspirata technical director joins global food safety working group

Venisha Bachulal, Technical Director: Hygiene, Food Safety and Quality at Aspirata (a business unit of Aurecon), is joined the Global Food Safety Initiative’s Retail/Wholesale Technical Working Group (TWG) in July this year.
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Team Aurecon supports budding cyclists in Kayamandi

Aurecon is a proud sponsor of several youth projects run by Songo.info, an organisation that rolls-out upliftment programmes among the 33 000 people of the impoverished community of Kayamandi township in Stellenbosch, Western Cape.
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