Category: Infrastructure

By Julian Bajkowski Australia’s peak rail group has hit out at the Coalition’s promise of $6.7 billion in funding to fix the Bruce Highway in Queenslad, labelling the promise a…

The $1.8 million Serving Older Australians NBN enabled telehealth project has been launched in WA to support the delivery of home care services. Federal Minister for Regional Communications Sharon Bird…

By Staff Writers Telstra has been awarded a $32 million deal to roll out secure gateway internet services across 11 government agencies as Canberra seeks to further consolidate and modernise…

By Paul Hemsley The City of Melbourne has upped its efforts to become more environmentally sustainable by pledging an overhaul of building standards for energy, water and waste efficiency for…

By Paul Hemsley Mayors from New South Wales will meet with leading American experts in sustainable urban design and planning from this week to thrash out how they can embed…

By Julian Bajkowski Top boffins at Australia’s government-funded information technology research and development lab, NICTA, have been called in to help fix notoriously leaky plumbing at state owned utility, Sydney…

By Julian Bajkowski State owned utility Sydney Water has named the first tranche of successful tenders in its $1.3 billion infrastructure overhaul slated to run from 2013 to 2018. The…

By Paul Hemsley Sun rays will fire-up 35,000 households around Mildura after the Victorian government’s approved a $10 million grant to Silex Systems to complete the world’s biggest solar plant….

Local councils will deliver sustainable stormwater harvesting and re-use projects with the aid of federal funding. The funding will be more than $42 million to roll out nine projects to…

Power could be cheaper by using trigeneration and having fewer regulations blocking local energy production, according to the City of Sydney. With the council’s $440 million trigeneration project about to…