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Strength in diversity

y now you will be aware that I am strongly committed to increasing the diversity of the Bengineering profession, because I am certain this will significantly improve the contribution we are able to make to society. I am therefore delighted to see that there are 19 women engineers in this year’s Top 100 Most Influential Engineers, up from 11 in 2014 and only 5 in 2013. There could not be a clearer demonstration of the growing and positive influence of women in our Dr David Cruickshanks-Boyd profession. [email protected] In mid-June, I was privileged to host the launch of the Strategy for inclusiveness, wellbeing and diversity in engineering workplace, at Parliament House in Canberra. The strategy was launched by the Hon Michaelia Cash, the has been proven by research, diversity is not just the ‘right minister assisting the prime minister for women. She was thing to do’ it is the ‘smart thing to do’. supported at this launch by the Hon Karen Andrews, the parliamentary secretary to the minister for industry and Recognition science. The strategy was developed by Dr Marlene Kanga, I would like to give my personal congratulations to the who was national president in 2013, and it is strongly engineers who were recognised in this year’s Queen’s supported by Engineers Australia. Birthday Honours list (see p. 18). It is fitting that the This month also saw the first ever National Indigenous contributions of these engineers to building a better world Engineering Summit, hosted by the University of have been recognised in this way. Melbourne (see p. 16). Engineers Australia has been Tomorrow’s engineers closely involved in the planning for this summit, which On 22 June, I attended an important consultation forum has identified strategies to lift the appallingly low level of led by the minister for industry and science, the Hon representation in the engineering profession of Australia’s Ian Macfarlane, to provide feedback on the government’s first people. response to the important STEM paper released by chief We will be supporting these strategies, and I look scientist Prof Ian Chubb in September last year, titled forward to a future when the percentage of Indigenous Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics: Australia’s engineers in our profession more closely matches the Future. I was able to emphasise to the minister the critical overall population. need for our school and higher education systems to Our first ever open elections prepare appropriately educated engineers to underpin In late 2015, we will for the first time be appointing new our capacity to be a more innovative and competitive members to our Council (soon to be renamed the Board) Australia. The minister and the chief scientist were left from an open election of members. This is assuming with a clear impression of how Engineers Australia and the governor-general gives assent to our Supplementary our members can assist in this critical agenda. Charter, following our successful governance ballot earlier New national engineering register in the year. We have recently launched a new National Engineering You will by now have seen the call for nominations, Register (see p. 34) to improve the public trust and which closes on 31 July. The skills experience and recognition of engineers in Australia. I am excited by attributes required are clearly documented in the selection this development that we hope will, over time, avoid criteria and I encourage you to consider nominating. the potential proliferation of different state and territory I am very hopeful that we will have a number of strong schemes, which is not in the national interest. I sincerely nominations from a diverse demographic, so that our hope that you will encourage engineers to join this Board has good diversity. As many businesses know and as national register.

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03 g - President.indd 3 26/06/15 1:41 PM ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA NATIONAL OFFICE 11 National Circuit, Barton, ACT 2600 phone 02 6270 6555 www.engineersaustralia.org.au [email protected] 1300 653 113 contents NATIONAL PRESIDENT: Dr David Cruickshanks-Boyd, FIEAust CPEng EngExec NATIONAL DEPUTY PRESIDENT: John McIntosh, FIEAust CPEng EngExec NATIONAL IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT: Prof Alex Baitch, HonFIEAust CPEng COUNCILLORS: Dr Steven Goh, MIEAust; Alexandra Meldrum, FIEAust CPEng; John Olson, FIEAust CPEng EngExec; Simon Orton, FIEAust CPEng EngExec; Murray Thompson, FIEAust; Greg Walters (National Vice President – Finance), FIEAust CPEng EngExec. CHIEF EXECUTIVE : Stephen Durkin, FIEAust COLLEGE CHAIRS: Prof Karen Reynolds, FIEAust (biomedical); Prof Robert Burford, FIEAust CPEng (chemical); Gerry Doyle, FIEAust CPEng (civil); Tiina Ratamo, FIEAust CPEng (electrical); Erik Maranik, FIEAust CPEng (environmental); Geoff Sizer, FIEAust CPEng (ITEE); David Singleton, HonFIEAust CPEng EngExec (leadership and management); Michael Lucas, FIEAust CPEng (mechanical); Dr Rob Heywood, FIEAust CPEng (structural). DIVISION OFFICES CANBERRA 11 National Circuit, Barton, ACT 2600, phone 02 6270 6519 NEWCASTLE Engineering sector sees red 122 Parry St, Newcastle West 2302, phone 02 4926 4440 17 NORTHERN GPO Box 417, Darwin 0801, phone 08 8981 4137 QUEENSLAND 447 Upper Edward St, Brisbane 4000, phone 07 3832 3749 SOUTH AUSTRALIA EnginEErs AustrAliA Level 11, 108 King William St, Adelaide 5000, phone 08 8202 7100 SYDNEY 3 President’s column Level 3, 8 Thomas Street, Chatswood 2067, phone 02 9410 5600 TASMANIA 6 CEO’s column Level 8, 188 Collins St, Hobart 7000, phone 03 6218 1901 VICTORIA 8 Letters 13-21 Bedford St, North Melbourne 3051, phone 03 9329 8188 WESTERN AUSTRALIA 24 Launch of Transport Australia society 712 Murray St, West Perth 6005, phone 08 9321 3340 34 National Engineer Register introduced HONG KONG CHAPTER, Paul Freeman, President, [email protected] 71 Engineering Practice Advisory Committee MALAYSIA CHAPTER Dennis Ong, Chairman, [email protected] meets SINGAPORE CHAPTER Percy Jeyapal, President, [email protected] UK CHAPTER CurrEnt AffAirs Peter Walsh, Chairman, [email protected] ENGINEERS MEDIA 12 Pressure mounts to reform fire safety Engineers Australia magazine, published by Engineers Media (registered name Engineers Australia Pty Limited, ACN 001311511), a wholly owned subsidiary of 14 Infrastructure audit calls for better Engineers Australia, is a magazine reporting impartially the latest news of interest leadership to engineers. The statements made or opinions expressed in the magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institution. Engineers Media retains copyright for this publication. Written permission is Ews required for the reprinting of any of its content. n BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Mervyn Lindsay, FIEAust CPEng (chair); Stephen Durkin, FIEAust; Terence Jeyaretnam, FIEAust CPEng; 16 Indigenous under-represented in Bruce Roff, FIPA AGIA. engineering HEAD OFFICE: 2 Ernest Place, Crows Nest, NSW 2065 (PO Box 588, Crows Nest 1585), phone 02 9438 1533 17 Engineering sector sees red www.engineersmedia.com.au EDITORIAL EMAIL: [email protected] 18 Queen’s Birthday honours ADVERTISING EMAIL: [email protected] GENERAL MANAGER: Bruce Roff 20 Opportunities for engineers MANAGING EDITOR: Dr Tim Kannegieter across the country DEPUTY EDITOR: Desi Corbett EDITORIAL: Patrick Durrant, Callum Rhodes 22 Australia’s performance on infrastructure ACCOUNTANT: Tissa Mohotti not up to scratch ADVERTISING SALES: Qld, NSW, ACT: Maree Fraser, [email protected] 07 5580 9000 Vic, Tas, SA, WA: Dee Grant, [email protected] 02 9438 1533 ADVERTISING CO-ORDINATOR: Esme Johnstone PRODUCTION MANAGER: Chris Gerelli PRODUCTION: Stefan Novak, Nicole Sidoti EA BOOKS: Dean Clarke Find us elsewhere

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Creating valuable partnerships

he past few months have seen significant progress on a number of reforms at Engineers Australia and I am Tdelighted to profile two of these initiatives. Stephen Durkin An area of ongoing consideration at EA has been how [email protected] we can continue to build the profile of our profession. You may have seen the recent Roy Morgan Image of Professions Survey 2015, where engineers have now moved from a rating and lawyers in Australia are members of this scheme. of 7th to 5th of the most trusted professions in Australia The NER will also be accessible to members of the public alongside doctors, nurses, pharmacists and school teachers. so that any purchaser of engineering services (government, This highlights the growing respect that the public has for business or a private consumer) can be confident that the the work of our engineering teams. engineers they engage have met our benchmark standard of As the peak body of the engineering profession, EA has professionalism. a profound responsibility to uphold this public trust. We are We believe that our NER will further improve the deeply committed to lifting the professional standing and professional recognition and public trust of engineers in public recognition of our critical role in the community. Australia, and promote the role of EA in advancing the Our response, after 12 months of deliberations and profession. planning, is a new EA National Engineering Register (NER), A second key initiative is the significant agreement EA outlined on p. 34. We are confident that the NER will has signed with Macquarie Bank to deliver a suite of market further strengthen the brand of engineering professionals in leading financial products and services to our members. the eyes of the general public. Macquarie’s long term commitment to EA will see us Our new ‘badge of professionalism’ will provide public work together to deliver innovative products and services assurance that an engineer in the Engineers Australia to help members plan, build, manage and protect their Professional Standards Scheme (EAPSS), and listed on wealth. The first offer is a range of home loans, including the NER, is qualified, experienced and has professional Macquarie’s award winning Qantas Points Flyer Loan, a indemnity coverage. Registered members will be issued with major innovation in the home loan market. a certificate of currency that confirms their commitment Another important aspect of our agreement will see to contemporary business practices through ongoing Macquarie and EA share our expertise, in particular to continuing professional development and adherence to EA’s support a shared focus in the infrastructure space. At the highly respected code of ethics. same time this connectivity will enable us to deliver high A further element of the register is our relationship with quality professional programs of interest to our members, the Professional Standards Councils (PSC). for example in the area of infrastructure The councils are independent statutory funding. bodies established by each of the Australian As part of our commitment to state and territory governments to oversee supporting members both personally and the Professional Standards Schemes (PSS). professionally, a key strategic priority The sole purpose of the schemes is to for EA is creating valuable partnerships. promote professional standards and provide FOR THE FIRST TIME, This means aligning ourselves with some consumer protection. of Australia’s leading organisations like This important connection with the ALL MEMBERS OF Macquarie and the PSC, who are leaders PSC will further strengthen our new NER THE PSS LISTED ON in their field. framework. For the first time, all members of THE NER WILL BE It is in this way that we will deliver the PSS listed on the NER will be recognised greater value to members and ensure as professionals under law. In addition, those RECOGNISED AS that we position our organisation to best registered will automatically have access to PROFESSIONALS represent the engineering profession the PSC’s PSS providing capped liability for UNDER LAW overall. eligible members. Over 50,000 accountants

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Cyclone solution for third world he April article experience the most damage buildings that ‘Weak links let down and suffering. Because of together with Tstrong buildings’ traditional practices that use light roofs made a number of salient expedient local materials, offer longevity points regarding the ability superstructures of houses and protect of buildings to resist that should be the strongest the occupants. cyclones, highlighting the link are often the weakest. Using local risks of complacency and a Yet an alternate readily soils as the lack of understanding in our available material is all but superstructure material and safe hygienic housing first world building industry. ignored. Recent advances requires only cement and with minimal reliance on Vanuatu, which suffered in stabilised compressed steel reinforcement to be imported materials. severe damage to 90% of earth block machinery, imported. its infrastructure, merited stabilising methods and A derived benefit would George Burlow MIEAust Vereeniging, South Africa a passing comment yet building technology have be a sustainable industry countries like these made possible reinforced providing employment How much red tape? he objective of Without careful attention the prospect of litigation reducing unnecessary to its purpose, reducing and improve the outcomes Trequirements, so red tape may unnecessarily of projects. called “red tape”, leading to increase the risk in a A balance needs to an improved environment project. be struck between the for innovation is a laudable It seems that increased administrative burden of objective. However, some uncertainty and risk arising regulation, and the risks Send your letter either red tape does serve the from a more open approach and uncertainty which arise in the body of the email purpose of managing (reduced red tape) to from inadequate regulation or as an attachment in risk and facilitates good conducting government and of vital services and public Microsoft Word. governance. Engineers have commercial business can resources. SEND TO an obligation to manage risk only lead to greater level The Editor, in their work and should of contract disputes which Peter Hitchiner CPEng FIEAust Westleigh, NSW Engineers Media, be careful to get the right require expensive legal PO Box 588, balance of risk management services. The application Crows Nest NSW 1585 tools, typically carefully of sound engineering to EMAIL TO crafted legal documents. manage the risks can reduce letters@ engineersmedia.com.au Lament for Pilgrim Letters should not exceed 200 words. Include IEAust was saddened to read course in engineering and on the statistical rational post-nominals, suburb, the obituary for David groundwater hydrology method of flood estimation. state and phone number. IPilgrim in the May in 1970, where I first met Nothing was ever too much Not all letters can be issue and I am sure most David, and he subsequently trouble for him to do to published. practising hydrologists in provided me with a help and his courtesy was By submitting your letter Australia will share my complete data set from his legendary. The Australian for publication you agree sentiments. David was research catchment at South hydrological community is that Engineers Australia magazine may edit the one of nature’s gentlemen Creek for use in my MSc the poorer for his passing. letter for legal, length or and my own career was studies in Scotland. I was other reasons. significantly influenced also able to contribute in Dr Ron Black FIEAust CPEng Forest Lake, Qld Unpublished letters by my association with later years to the revised cannot be acknowledged him. I was privileged to version of ARR, drawing or returned. attend the post graduate upon his extensive work

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Go nuclear on submarines he May cover story to development of a nuclear missing an opportunity to manufacture these vessels makes much ado industry in Australia while maintain a position at the cost effectively. Our naval Tof the importance noting the interesting forefront of carbon friendly engineers will then gain of Australia’s Future development of small nuclear technology, and expertise in this technology Submarine Project, using module reactors. prospectively a constructive which should enrich diesel technology to sail Surely there is a need role in waste recycling and our local capability for 7000 nautical miles in 70 here for a clearer voice from disposal. domestic nuclear industry days at sea. The article EA on these two issues. The Australia should abandon development. on the recent Energy government is embarking this ridiculous plan to White Paper mentions on a vast program to build the ‘Holden of the Andrew D Cummins MIEAust West Sussex, UK EA’s disappointment on build submarines using Sea’ and either buy or lease the government’s failure to “politically correct” nuclear submarines from remove legal impediments technology. Australia is our allies with the scale to Electric vehicles not that environmental Public voted write about the charge these vehicles. In currently on the roads. n the May issue it increasing number of fact, if the average CO Of course, if our power 2 was reported that electric vehicles being emissions associated with systems move towards more I the sacked Linking marketed in Australia the Australian power environmentally responsible I Melbourne Authority CEO, as “zero CO emission” system are accounted for emission levels, the “zero 2 Ken Mathers, is ‘devastated’ vehicles. This claim has along with the energy/km CO emission” vehicles 2 by the cancellation of the the potential to mislead consumed by these vehicles, will be able to move much costly and controversial East consumers when one these vehicles may be closer to their claimed West Link. He dismissed considers the significant found to be responsible for performance level. the decision as politically CO emissions associated producing comparable CO 2 2 Dr Ian Faulconbridge motivated. with the current Australian per kilometre as other small FIEAust CPEng At $1 million per metre, power system used to petrol/diesel/hybrid vehicles Manuka, ACT the Link was to be the most costly roads project Engineering on the big screen in Australian history, with just $0.45 economic benefit uring my time on our own show. Well, I am Martian is being made into for every dollar invested. It National Congress, now writing to alert you a feature film directed by involved the devastation of Dwe spent a lot of all to a once in a decade Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) scarce inner-urban parkland time, money and effort on opportunity! A novel by and starring Matt Damon. and demolition of hundreds various initiatives to ‘raise Andy Weir called The And, yes, the main character of properties, many heritage the profile and awareness’ of is an engineer who must listed. The Link lacked engineers and engineering solve multiple challenges to community and broad as a career choice. stay alive when stranded on political support. These facts I believe we have made Mars. were conveniently ignored some progress … but one This film will be by Mathers in his lament. ‘gap’ we identified were BIG (trust me – I’m an This is a prime example engineers as ‘lead characters’ engineer). So do yourself a of failure due to poor in popular culture – favour and read the book, transparency and due particularly on television then get ready to ‘capitalise’ diligence. The electorate and feature films. and celebrate engineering voted for sustainable public We did do some with the film’s release in transport projects, not more ‘lobbying’ to try and get October . 1960s style mega-tollroads. engineers into some TV Ian Bird MIEAust CPEng (Ret) scripts … but without Chris Dalitz FIEAust Geurie, NSW Carlton, Vic success. We couldn’t afford (then or now) to fund

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Pressure mounts to reform FIRE SAFETY ressure is mounting to reform regulation of fire safety “In the case of high rise apartment buildings, one in the wake of a fire at the Lacrosse Apartments in mitigation measure that will be very effective in controlling PVictoria’s Docklands last November. The Melbourne fire spread is the sprinkler protection of balconies. Fire Brigade (MFB) has called for the state coroner to However, not all balconies in high rise apartment buildings launch an enquiry into the use of non-compliant external are required to be sprinkler protected and prohibiting cladding and the Victorian Building Authority’s (VBA) role storage of materials to control fuel load is very difficult to in the regulation of the building industry. implement in practice,“ said Wan. Acting fire chief Paul Stacchino was recently quoted in If non-compliant (combustible) cladding is located on The Age, saying he could foresee situations where the MFB the vertical facade of a building and exposed to potential might have to make the “terrible choice” of ordering its fire sources such as windows or balconies, there is a risk officers to withdraw from buildings similar to Lacrosse due of vertical fire spread. In such cases, the only mitigation to uncertainty over the widespread use of the combustible measure that would reduce the risk to a reasonable level cladding. would be to replace the cladding with a compliant material. MFB investigations found that the building’s Chinese On its website, the VBA states that it will contact over manufactured external aluminium composite cladding was 20,000 building practitioners seeking information about the not compliant with the National Construction Code (NCC) possible use of non-compliant cladding. and contributed to the rapid spread of the fire to 19 storeys Wan said that the cost of replacing cladding could cause of the high rise apartments. insurance companies to increase premiums for building In early June, amateur video footage captured a dramatic owners, builders and other building practitioners. building fire in China which engulfed the whole external “Given that the risk of fire resulting from the use of non- facade in seconds (see 9News report at http://goo.gl/ compliant cladding is now widely known, it will cause the ordHDM and still images right). Although it could not be insurance industry to reassess the risk premiums related confirmed that cladding was a contributing factor in that to multi-level apartment buildings,” Wan said. Building case, the speed of the conflagration highlights the risk. practitioners may also face legal action and increased National President of Engineers Australia’s Society of Fire premiums if they had been involved in the design and Safety, Dr Weng Poh, hopes that the Lacrosse blaze will lead approval of buildings with non-compliant cladding. to a review of Australia’s complex building regulations. Poh explained that the issue of fire safety compliance “So long as it is not a major disaster, failure can is complicated by Australia’s varying building regulation sometimes be a good thing. In the Lacrosse case, there is no systems. The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB), injury or death, but it has put a sharp focus on fire safety in sets national technical standards, but administration and buildings,” he said. enforcement are managed independently Safety concerns have prompted the VBA by each state and territory. to use its coercive powers to audit over “Every state has their own regulations, 170 high rise buildings in Melbourne and but they are not the same. I don’t think surrounds. The VBA has also investigated anyone has sat down and said that there the conduct of Lacrosse builder LU Simon, should be a unified system – it is very and determined that the company used political,” he said. the same non-compliant cladding material, One example of the inconsistency known as Alucobest, in two other buildings between state and territory regulations – the Aura on Flinders and Mitcham Village. FIRE SAFETY is the requirement for accreditation The local municipal building surveyor is of fire safety engineers. Victoria, New currently investigating what remedial action COMPLIANCE IS South Wales and Queensland require is required. COMPLICATED accreditation, the other states and Asked to comment, Norman Disney & BY AUSTRALIA’S territories do not. Young senior fire engineer Dr Millie Wan A mandatory national accreditation said mitigation measures to address non- VARYING BUILDING system for fire engineers would ensure that compliant cladding depend on the function REGULATION technical competency and qualifications and use of the building and the extent and SYSTEMS. were maintained throughout the country. location of the non-compliant cladding. According to Poh, the new National ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2015 12

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Engineering Register (NER) maintained According to Wan, the deemed- by Engineers Australia could provide a to-satisfy provisions are too inflexible solution (see page 34). in their treatment of external walls in “If all states agreed, NER would be a high rise buildings, which only permit good vehicle, but it must be legislated,” the use of non-combustible building he said. materials. Poh stressed that an effective fire “This goes against the trend where safety design is not a simple matter many new building facade materials are of ‘ticking boxes’ to comply with composites that cannot be classified as prescriptive building codes, but ensuring non-combustible. There should be an that performance requirements for the additional classification of materials of building are met. limited combustibility,” Wan said. “In safety there are many aspects to Wan also argued that regulations look at, it depends on a combination should require approval authorities to of factors. To make things work, seek expert engineering judgement on every component has to work. If one what constitutes an undue risk of fire component fails it could bring the whole spread for building facades, as they may system down. You have to look at it not have the engineering and fire testing holistically, that is what fire engineering knowledge required. is meant to be,” he explained. The small-scale test required In the case of the Lacrosse under the NCC to determine non- Apartments, although the cladding combustibility may also be inadequate. was a contributing factor, LU Simons “Foreign codes and standards have maintained that the lack of sprinkler full scale facade fire tests. We should systems on balconies exacerbated to the adopt an internationally recognised full- spread of the fire. The MFB also found scale facade fire test,” Wan said. that the sprinkler system inside the building operated beyond its designed capacity, which prevented a more serious outcome. The NCC is a performance-based code, which encourages innovation and holistic design, but also allows for prescriptive compliance through its ‘deemed-to-satisfy’ provisions. In the case of prescriptive compliance, fire engineers are not involved in design and systemic interaction of building components is not explicitly addressed.

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he release of the first comprehensive national projects or health care? What price or value do we put on infrastructure audit by Infrastructure Australia our future lifestyle and productivity? Gaining community T(IA) has sparked calls for an informed and robust understanding makes decisions much easier to make,” national debate that will ensure the upcoming 15 year Griffith explained. infrastructure plan has widespread support from the public, funding bodies and all sides of politics. DATA TO SUPPORT ROBUST DECISIONS “I’d like to see the sort of public leadership that drives According to Engineers Australia Victorian infrastructure the debate about how our cities will look in 20 to 50 spokesperson Prof JohnWilson, the audit confirms years time. Once we have that understanding and the previous findings made by Engineers Australia. recognition of the need to act, the path forward becomes “Everything I read in this audit was very consistent with easier,” said Christian Griffith, chair of the new Transport those things we found in the 2010 Engineers Australia Australia society (see article page 24). infrastructure report card. It seems like we are on the same The IA audit, published last month, highlights the need page,” he said. for a strategic, evidence-based approach to infrastructure With a projected 36.5% increase in the Australian planning as our population grows and infrastructure ages. population by 2031, the audit stresses the need to link It predicts almost three quarters of population growth in infrastructure planning to information about where people the next 15 years will be concentrated in our largest capital work and live. “Where people are located influences land- cities. If no action is taken to rectify current bottlenecks in use planning. Then when you can visualise where the road systems, the cost of congestion is likely to blow out people are and what their infrastructure needs are. that by almost 300% of 2011 costs to $53.3 billion in 2031. drives your infrastructure plan,” Wilson said. Wilson praised the inclusion of international LISTEN TO THE PUBLIC comparisons in the audit, as well as predicted population According to Garry Bowditch, CEO of the SMART growth and infrastructure investment figures from the Infrastructure Group at University of Wollongong, 1980s onwards. He suggested that the audit could have the most important initiative for infrastructure in looked back further to the period between the 1950s and Australia should be to improve the quality of community 1970s, when public sector infrastructure spending was a engagement. Bowditch said governments need to listen higher proportion of GDP. to the problems that the community sees, rather than Since the 1980s, the level of public infrastructure convincing the community their solutions are correct. funding has dropped due to increased investment in He believes new communication technologies have given other portfolios. This trend is likely to continue, with policy makers the tools to achieve this. the audit suggesting that current levels of government For improved consultation to occur, government expenditure on transport will be unsustainable in light of must overcome community apathy about long-term increased health and welfare costs to support the growing infrastructure planning. Griffith stressed the connection population. It recommends a broader range of user charges between our future quality of life and the for roads and public transport to cover the infrastructure decisions we make now. shortfall. To gain community and political “It’s an enabler for all sorts of things – support, these charges must be affordable. including the health and well being of our Wilson emphasised that government local communities. Infrastructure needs to funding is needed for services such as be thought of in that context, otherwise no- public transport, which may not have direct one is interested,” he said. monetary returns for private investors, Governments also need to explain the but provide less tangible social and nature and scale of infrastructure problems, THE COST OF environmental benefits. and link them to community needs and According to Bowditch, the key to interests. This builds an understanding of CONGESTION IS capturing these intangible benefits is to the inevitable trade-offs that occur when LIKELY TO BLOW record the costs and benefits associated funding decisions are made. OUT ALMOST 300% with large infrastructure projects at “It’s an allocation decision – do you BY 2031. completion, and 5 to 10 years afterwards. allocate x% of GDP to infrastructure “We have to ask the question: is there

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Christian Griffith Garry Bowditch Prof John Wilson Chair of the Transport CEO of the SMART Infrastructure Engineers Australia Victorian Australia society Group at University of Wollongong infrastructure spokesperson

a concern with the way we measure costs and benefits? But the nature of our political system makes this a The only way to do that is to examine previous projects complex matter to resolve. Treasurer Joe Hockey told ABC and reconcile the magnitude and pattern of benefit that Radio that he was wary of setting up a new independent occurred. The lack of institutional memory is stopping body that determines where the money goes, because as Australia from even getting to first base in understanding an elected representative of the Australian community, he this critical matter,” he said. was ultimately responsible for controlling the use of public funds. STOP THE POLITICAL FOOTBALL Bowditch also has reservations about an autonomous The existence of Infrastructure Australia helps to decouple infrastructure body, and feels that enhancing community infrastructure decisions from the noise around the political input into developing and shaping priorities is more cycle. However, as a statutory body, IA recommends important. “I am unconvinced that a group of ‘the priorities to government, rather than making autonomous wise’ should tell Australia what it needs in terms of decisions. infrastructure,” he said. In his recent budget reply speech, federal opposition Wilson stressed the need for a 15 year infrastructure leader Bill Shorten said, if elected, his party would grant plan that is evidence-based and supported by key Infrastructure Australia independence similar to that of stakeholders, including the community and business. the Reserve Bank. “Then march on and get all party support, otherwise Wilson is supportive of this idea. “I’d like to see some the plan becomes a political debating point and nothing independence so that we don’t have political footballs, but happens,” he said. proper projects and proper outcomes. We need bipartisan support of outcomes, so everybody is singing from the same sheet,” he said.

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improve opportunities for Indigenous Indigenous engineering students and to increase the number of Indigenous engineers working in Australia”. under-represented “Indigenous engineers are part of the conversation and providing input into the building of the pathways. They are in engineering engineers and have gone through the journey into engineering,” Dougas said. “These engineers can now be mentors to current students coming through the ranks and are able to provide advice on what barriers and experiences they had to help build a tangible pipeline into the profession. “The Indigenous community has until now been underrepresented in the engineering profession, a situation that has had major negative consequences.” Stakeholders are examining the blockages that are preventing Indigenous students from pursuing studies in engineering, with a view to devising ways of working around these barriers, the University of Melbourne said. One of the key barriers is a lack of take-up of maths and science subjects among Indigenous school students. Prof Ian Anderson, pro-vice chancel- lor (engagement), said the University of Melbourne has a commitment to population parity as a key feature of its 2015 Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). “Building on that commitment and taking greater steps towards setting hard targets to achieve population parity, the university will look towards the recruitment and retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students,” Anderson said. “This will certainly assist with young Aboriginal children seeing real life role models of Indigenous engineers and how that it is possible,” he said. he former CEO of Sinclair and policy leaders. They gathered to Anderson dubbed the Summit as a Knight Merz says the Indigenous exchange ideas and develop strategies “life changing event” involving industry, Tcommunity has been under- to create and support pathways into the not for profits and education providers represented in the engineering profession engineering profession for Indigenous providing recommendations to help steer with major negative consequences. Australians. this pathway. The first ever National Indigenous Led by University of Melbourne “We have a consultative approach that Engineering Summit was held last week alumnus and former Sinclair Knight Merz places current Aboriginal and Torres comprising the engineering industry, CEO Prof Paul Dougas, the Partners for Strait Islander engineers at the centre of professional bodies, educational providers Pathways program is aiming to “vastly this approach,” he said.

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Engineering sector sees red

ngineers Australia has dubbed treasurer Joe Hockey’s recent Ecomments on the state of the economy as “misplaced and offensive” to the engineering profession. Chief executive Stephen Durkin took the government to task over Hockey’s “flippant comments” to the effect that economic doomsayers were “clowns” and “complete fools”. Durkin said the government needs to show a real understanding of the state of play beyond headline figures. Hockey continues to make news headlines with throwaway comments that have also included Sydney housing and employment issues. “We need to see less sweeping rhetoric and more sweeping investment,” Durkin said. “The engineering sector has been a big supporter of the government’s infrastructure investment agenda, but we of declining job vacancies. With the end ability to transition from a resource- need a recommitment to this vision, as of the resources boom having savaged dependent economy to a high-tech, well as urgent and coordinated action to engineering employment in Australia, high-value economy,” he said. drive bottom line spending and growth Durkin explained there is no rebound Durkin called on the government, as across the sector.” in sight that the federal budget figures a major player, to ensure it is on board Durkin said the engineering profession would suggest. with the challenges facing engineers. has seen almost three continuous years “Infrastructure is a key factor in our

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Engineers receive Australian honours At least seventeen members of Engineers Australia have received Queens Birthday Honours in 2015:

MEMBER AM IN THE MEMBER AM IN THE GENERAL DIVISION MILITARY DIVISION Brigadier Wayne BUDD CSC Peter Stewartson COCKBAIN Brigadier Darren NAUMANN Morpeth, NSW For significant service to electrical engineering, MEDAL OAM IN THE particularly in the mining and energy sectors, and GENERAL DIVISION to professional organisations. John MCILWAIN Ron GREER Barry Frederick COLLINS Dr Vecihi (John) BASARIN Strathfield, NSW For significant service to chemical engineering, CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS through contributions to the mining, paper and Captain Colin DAGG steel industries, and to the community. Lieutenant Colonel Tyron DE BOER Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer HARRIS Dr William Terry O’BRIEN Kew, Vic CONSPICUOUS SERVICE MEDAL For significant service to maritime engineering, to Squadron Leader Anton VOJKOVIC the development of innovative marine navigation Commander Troy BATTISHALL equipment, and to education. Colonel Jeremy KING

Arvo TINNI PUBLIC SERVICE MEDAL Birchgrove, NSW Dr Owen ARNDT For significant service to engineering through contributions to the road construction sector, as AUSTRALIAN FIRE SERVICE MEDAL an industry leader, innovator and mentor. John LAWRENCE

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Engineering opportunities across the country

ew South Wales and Queensland are seeing improved according to the latest Hays Recruitment report for April to confidence in the engineering market, but other states June 2015. Nare still dealing with the end of the resources boom, Hays said confidence in the Sydney engineering market has increased, and along with a ‘cash injection’ from the NSW budget last year this has been reflected in hiring trends. Increased permanent recruitment, longer term temporary roles and quick hiring decisions made by businesses are creating an “extremely buoyant market”, according to the company Sentiment has also improved in Queensland, where consultancies are now immediately backfilling vacancies with other permanent employees. Until recently, according to Hays, consultancies had favoured holding off on immediately replacing departed staff due to the inconsistent work pipeline. Experience using Revit software is a skill in high demand across disciplines in the state, being a relatively new addition to the arsenal of skills required in Australian market. In Melbourne, the halt on the East West Link project has led to the ready availability of candidates with transport infrastructure experience, but Hays stated the top candidates were looking to Sydney for work.

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Not good enough

he chairman of Infrastructure Baillieu asked Briggs how he would like However, he also pointed to the need for Australia says Australia’s ranking to see costs fall, adding that the “escalating earlier planning to reserve road corridors Ton infrastructure internationally cost of construction is pricing us out of so that major projects don’t need to go is low, with our performance not up to the infrastructure of the future,” Baillieu and acquire land. scratch. told the summit. He held up Western Sydney as an Mark Birrell made the comments at the Briggs admitted labour costs are an example of good infrastructure planning, recent Australian Financial Review (AFR) issue, citing unions that are “disruptive”. where the infrastructure is being built Infrastructure Summit. before the growth in the area. “We think far too much The first principle for infra- about infrastructure being structure investors, according to a single project, rather than Briggs, is consistency. He pointed a national agenda,” Birrell to the “tearing up of contracts”, said. “Australia’s ranking referring to Victoria’s defunct East on infrastructure against West Link project, which has cost international peers is poor. the state a reported $420 million, Our performance is simply as well as the union movement’s not good enough.” campaign against NSW premier Federal infrastructure Mike Baird as examples of prob- minister Jamie Briggs lems in this area. said relying on govern- He said Australia needs to ment funding alone for embrace more innovative ways infrastructure is “a false to fund infrastructure with new dream”. models for user charging. The “We are currently government is willing to look at funding and delivering flexible project funding models infrastructure much as on a case by case basis, including we did a generation ago,” semi-funded projects put forward Briggs said. by the private sector, according Victoria’s premier Ted to Briggs.

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A new voice for transport professionals

new technical society of Engineers Australia has been launched, intended as the new home for transport Aprofessionals in Australia. The Transport Australia society (TAs) was launched last month with the approval of EA’s Council. It is now open for membership and running launch events around the country. The board of the Civil College identified the need for a multi-disciplinary transport society over two years ago. According to the key drivers behind the initiative, TAs treasurer Alan Thompson and chair Christian Griffith, the society is needed because there has been no high level and nationally focused group able to lead the transport debate on key matters affecting the growth of our cities. engineers, but he said there are at least three According to Thompson, Australia’s national wealth and reasons why we should not be complacent, well-being are underpinned by its transport system and summarised as follows: engineers play a vital role. • Over recent decades, the engineering “The engineering profession plays a vital role in designing, profession has frequently not been part building, operating and maintaining the whole transport of the decision-making process for large system, including shipping and ports, aviation and airports, transport infrastructure. National and rail services, roads, cars, buses, trucks, cycle ways and state governments regularly take decisions footpaths. We can be proud of our achievements to date.” about large infrastructure investments Thompson said. without any input from engineers. “The extent of the challenge and need for action are Then, once the decision has been taken, outlined in Infrastructure Australia’s recent audit,” Griffith engineers are tasked to “get on with it, said. “Dealing with future cities twice and deliver this or that road, or rail line, the size, while protecting our much or airport”. This is very different to the valued liveability rankings, requires way policy and investment decisions are careful planning and good decision made across healthcare and many other making. Building a productive and sectors. sustainable future is heavily reliant • Some important transport projects on getting the right transport projects are only viewed as a “cost to the and reform agenda in place. With so WE NEED TO community”, and important benefits much at stake, TAs aims to be front are ignored, notably safety, pollution and centre in the discussion, and at the IMPROVE THE reduction, congestion reduction and decision-making table across a range of PUBLIC DEBATE export competitiveness. Engineers and forums.” ABOUT STRATEGIC transport economists have frequently been Australian federal, state and local ineffective in providing evidence about governments are already investing TRANSPORT ISSUES the benefits of these transport projects. around $30 billion pa in transport AND ENSURE Rigour and transparency around decision infrastructure but this is struggling to ENGINEERS ARE making should be a high priority for all keep up with demand, most notably in governments. congested cities where more than 80% PART OF THE • Transport technologies are rapidly of Australians live and work. According DECISION MAKING evolving – think driverless cars and to Griffith, this outlook offers PROCESS. driverless trains, new battery technologies, tremendous opportunities for skilled and mechanised container handling.

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relevant college boards, and are ably managed by existing technical societies. TAs will continue to work closely with all colleges and technical societies in the development of a coherent and compelling “story” to present to government and the community. In establishing the society, the committee will consult with new members to develop a set of early priorities, potentially focusing on some of the issues listed below. Griffith said all of these issues are likely to require inputs from a wide range of engineering disciplines and allied transport professionals. A key objective of TAs is to ensure that the engineering profession has a say on key transport issues. TAs will work with both the CEO and National President of EA in arriving at an agreed position on important matters, following which it will release statements to the media and industry where relevant. However, TAs will also consider itself successful if it has provided the forum for engineering professionals to “widen and deepen” their knowledge of key transport issues, thus allowing these individuals to contribute to the public debate on an informed basis. Any EA member who has an interest in any mode of transport is welcome to join TAs. TAs is seeking members who are involved across all phases of the “transport task”, including policy, research, front end planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance phases. The committee is looking for enthusiastic people willing to share their own knowledge, and willing to Again, leadership by the engineering learn from others. This will allow the new society to deliver on our purpose profession should be essential if the statement, and positively influence key transport decisions for Australia. community is to adopt the best ideas. Go to www.transportaustralia.org.au for more information. Griffith said the Civil College knows the profession has good systems in place to nurture and to improve our technical skills for roads, tunnels, signalling, aviation and shipping. However, it has also realised that the engineering profession could better respond to the transport challenge if there was a forum to bring together all of the transport professionals, from across all transport modes. “We concluded that we needed to improve public debate about strategic transport issues, and ensure that engineers are part of the decision making process when governments at all levels make decisions about transport infrastructure and major transport investments,” Griffith said The new society will focus on “front end” decisions about transport policy, infrastructure and technologies, and provide a forum for a wide variety of transport practitioners to “compare notes”. Griffith said the new society will not be seeking to involve itself in detailed technical issues, such as bridge design, tunnelling technologies, vehicle robotics, pavement design, etc. These issues will continue to be the responsibility of the

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Clare Murray has left her position as CEO of the Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland, to take up the role of CEO with the Queensland Farmers Federation. Murray’s departure ends the tenure of one of the Board’s most successful registrars. She oversaw an unprecedented rise in the number of registered professional engineers in Queensland, from around 5000 to more than 11,000 today. Clare Murray

Alberto Calderon has taken the Former WestConnex project helm at Orica, replacing former CEO delivery director Paul Goldsmith has Ian Smith. Calderon said he wanted to joined the transport team at WSP | ensure the company had a “culture of Parsons Brinckerhoff, taking the role respect, collaboration and performance”, of major projects executive. Goldsmith’s which will be critical in improving 29 year career has seen him develop returns at the explosives giant after the major transport infrastructure projects sudden departure of Smith. Columbian- in the UK and Australia. The firm born Calderon was previously a senior has also welcomed Darren Wren executive with mining giant BHP as its new project and construction Billiton, and was a candidate to succeed services executive, to head its project Marius Kloppers as the group’s CEO. and construction management team in He has also been CEO of Columbian Australia and New Zealand. coal and oil companies Cerrejon and Mitsubishi Electric Australia Ecopetrol. has appointed mechanical engineer Jeremy Needham as managing director. Needham has been with the organisation for 27 years, and replaces Takeshi Shihonmatsu, who will take on a new role with the group in Tokyo. Thales has opened a new facility in Townsville, strengthening its ties to the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The team in Townsville will primarily support the ADF’s Bushmaster vehicles, and will supplement the company’s main Bushmaster support centre at Eagle Farm, as well as the protected Alberto Calderon vehicles manufacturing facility in Bendigo.

David Robinson, CEO of McConnell Dowell, has announced his retirement after 37 years with the company and 15 years as its CEO. The Email changes in key firm said a succession plan has been activated and the replacement process is engineering personnel to already underway. David will remain in editorial@engineersmedia. the role until the transition is complete. com.au

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he Electrical College’s key event for the year is the The 2015 MA Sargent Medal, awarded by the Electrical Electrical College Awards night. This gala event and ITEE Colleges, will be presented to Dr Alexander Twill be held in Sydney on Friday 28 August and all Zelinsky and Dr David Keith Sweeting, both Honorary members and their employers are encouraged to attend Fellows of EA. The medal recognises overall career and celebrate the winners and the engineering profession. achievements, whether through technical innovation, At the awards night, the 2015 National Professional longstanding eminence or exceptional leadership. Electrical Engineer of the Year Award will be presented Zelinsky’s work has focussed on mobile robotics, human to Dr Ralph Craven, a Fellow of EA and IPENZ. Craven – machine interaction and intelligent vehicles. Sweeting has over 35 years’ experience in the energy, resources, has been an honorary visiting professorial Fellow at the infrastructure and agribusiness sectors. His professional University of Wollongong for 14 years and has taught background encompasses electricity and gas businesses, hundreds of engineers in the high voltage and power mining, commodities trading, and the management of engineering fields. large scale system operations at the national level and the Industry support for the awards night is essential for its delivery of major infrastructure projects. success, and the event will be an ideal opportunity for the The recipient of the 2015 Graduate Electrical Power electrical engineering industry to celebrate the profession Engineer of the Year Award is Alexandra Price. Price is an and the outstanding talent of the individual award electrical engineer with three years of protection system winners. If you are interested in sponsoring this event network engineering experience. She holds a first class or would like to attend, please contact Natasha Diduk at honours degree and the University of Queensland medal . in electrical engineering.

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Smart motorway accelerated

mart roads technology has been fast tracked by the at 500 m intervals on the motorway, and entry and exit NSW government for Sydney’s M4 in an effort to cut ramps to detect changes in traffic flow in real time. Stravel times for commuters from the city’s west. The Coordinated entry ramp signals will be deployed to 2015-16 state budget included an additional $15 million regulate merging, improving traffic flow and reducing earmarked to speed up delivery of the project. the chance of rear-end crashes. Lane use management Ground investigation work for the upgrade began in gantries will open and close lanes on the motorway in late June, which is the first step towards “getting this piece response to incidents. Variable message and speed limit of genius installed”, according to NSW minister for roads, signs, and signs on approach roads, will also provide more maritime and freight Duncan Gay. information to motorists, for example reporting on traffic “Smart motorways will be the future of our road conditions and travel times. network and the 100,000 motorists who use the M4 every The ITS elements will be installed along a 36 km stretch day will be the first to benefit from this congestion-busting of the M4 between Pitt Street at Merrylands and Lapstone, technology in NSW,” Gay said. at the base of the Blue Mountains. The project includes intelligent transport systems (ITS) Major construction is expected to start in 2017 and be technologies such as traffic sensors, which will be placed completed within three years. Drones to assess pipeline

nmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used be further assessed and used to prioritise sections of the to assess 260 km of the Goldfields Water Supply pipeline for repair, according to Redman. UScheme pipeline in Western Australia. The UAVs The UAVs inspected pipeline around Bullabulling, were able to check up to 10 km of pipeline in a matter of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Koorarawalyee, Ghooli, Dedari, minutes, and the entire project was completed in six days. Southern Cross, Merredin, Chidlow and Meckering. Prior to the undertaking, acting water minister Terry The original 557 km Goldfields Water Supply Scheme Redman said the UAVs would be used to perform a visual was designed by Irish-Australian engineer Charles inspection of the historic pipeline. Yelverton O’Connor to transport water from Mundaring “This is truly bringing the old world and new world to Kalgoorlie. Although the scheme is now heritage listed, together: using advanced technology to inspect a 112 year O’Connor was subject to intense criticism from the press old pipeline,” Redman said. “Using UAVs means initial during its construction and committed suicide in 1902, visual inspections of pipelines can be carried out in a more less than a year before it was commissioned. efficient and cost effective way. Over the years since, the scheme has been extended to “An operator can fly the UAV at 60 km/h to inspect cover large areas of agricultural farmland and the Eastern both sides of a pipeline, capturing high-resolution images Goldfields. More than 100,000 people are supplied with of its condition.” water through the Goldfields and Agricultural Water The inspections were used to capture indicators of Supply Scheme, which includes the Goldfields pipeline. decay, such as rust stains and corrosion, which could then

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Would you put this man on your board?

by Margot Cairnes

ecently I had a web appointment As the superannuation heaviesheavies with an executive from a US firm. discussed all this it was noted that notnot R I looked him up on LinkedIn and so long ago Australia was well endowedendowed saw a picture of a fresh faced all American with credit unions. Credit unionsnions gotgot dad smiling back at me. When I met this complacent; their leaders thoughtught chap face to face on Google Hangout, he that their position in the mar- more closely resembled a Hell’s Angel. ket was secure. Today, less He had a sleeve of tattoos, a long grey than a third of those are beard, was dressed very casually and still operating. The story was balding. His opening line to me was of Eastman Kodak is that he was just back from a week long another example of lead- meditation retreat. ership that just didn’t see I was intrigued and did a little more the future coming their research. His Facebook site contained way, despite winning many four letter words and a lot of radical awards in governance messages (he has a social activist side). and risk management His hobbies were wide, various and weird. only months before they One of the photographs posted was of filed for bankruptcy. him with a large gold circle painted on The guy I introduced his forehead. in my speech was Bill Duane (picture); worldwide production engineering The following week I was asked to rabble rouser, meditator and character. functions for Gmail, docs, chat/hangouts address the chairs and CEO of major He is the superintendent of wellbeing and enterprise (to name but a few). superannuation funds on increasing the and sustainable performance learning Bill told me that at Google, if an diversity in their boards. Armed with for Google, responsible for its global engineer brings forward an idea that pictures and information on my new US line staff and performance sustainability. can be achieved and actioned using friend, I started my superannuation talk Previously, he was head of Google’s current resources, they are sent away with a question: “Would you put this man to come back with something more on your board?” radical. Google (one of the world’s most In our rapidly changing world we successful organisations) is only looking need people who are different – who for breakthrough ideas and solutions. look different, think differently, and who They want mavericks, odd balls and ask awkward questions. We need people off-centred thinkers. who are prepared to grow emotionally, How often do we let our need for mentally and spiritually. The biggest risk certainty, predictability and control get in to most organisations is the change they the way of our opening up to new people, haven’t seen coming. We need people who THE BIGGEST RISK TO new ideas and new ways of doing things? can see what others can’t. In today’s environment, complacency and Recruiting such people is only half the MOST ORGANISATIONS sticking to our knitting may be the kiss challenge – the other half is appreciating IS THE CHANGE THEY of death. them when we find them, integrating HAVEN’T SEEN COMING. them in a way that allows them to express their difference and be heard. And last WE NEED PEOPLE WHO Margot Cairnes is a leadership strategist and can be contacted at or visit . highly restricted corporate structures.

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by Mark Brownley

spoke to a young engineer recently. He was confident, proud and effusive; ebullient in fact. I There’s nothing wrong with that. He told me he hasn’t used much of his electrical engineering degree and doesn’t look like doing so anytime soon, all of which means it’s probably too late. His career and remuneration have advanced too far to unscramble the egg, and others are ferociously nipping at his heels from the graduate ranks. To return to technical, he’d have to sacrifice salary and status. The “use it or lose it” maxim applies particularly to engineers. In the time he’s been fluffing about doing ‘strategy” work, his competition has passed him on the inside lane. Although he continues to impress his peers and employer, it’s not through his mastery of engineering but simply by application of a curious, rigorous and disciplined mind. Talk to him and he didn’t learn these during his degree. Rather, they were the genetic traits he inherited from his mother and father and honed in high school. At university he learned principles to unlock limitless possibilities of the physical world, which he hasn’t to date. I think there’s a lot wrong with that. There’s also a pattern here. It’s not the first time I’ve produces engineers. There’s a subtlety here that’s lost on heard of raw engineering talent atrophying over time. That many. Universities produce graduates but if they don’t was nearly 30 years ago and that was me. My specialisation practise engineering after they graduate, they don’t become was chemical engineering and I didn’t use much of my engineers. Conversely, those that didn’t study engineering degree either. I started in software systems and process but go on to practice it anyway still become highly prized control. There was a subject in third year dedicated to employees in the technical domain. process control. One subject in a four-year degree. Even A sample space of two is not statistically significant but in my darkest hours coding critical control systems, I still the number of non-engineer-engineers I’ve worked with didn’t use any of it in anger. is, just like the underlying message for the profession, My degree was the perfect bridge to a MEngSc or PhD, industry and the tertiary sector, which is: but it offered little in the way of practical skills for success If you employ engineering graduates, you must give them as a software systems engineer. That was a craft I had to real engineering work until they become real engineers. If learn from the ground up when I arrived at Honeywell. you educate engineering undergraduates, remember that I got a job, presumably because someone thought I most will enter the workforce – not enrol for a masters was “smart”. I then went on to build a middle career just or PhD. And, as for the profession, arbitrate between the by being smart, rather than the four years learning the employers and the educators such that their graduates may foundations of chemical engineering. My degree was an use all of the arrows in their quiver. And if they can’t, change interesting, intellectual exercise but not especially relevant. the arrows. These days, when recruiting, I specify a related undergraduate degree and/or relevant professional STOP THE LEAKAGE experience. Whereas once I would never have contemplated Fewer high school students, especially females, are a non-degree-qualified “engineer”, I now know they exist. choosing engineering. As engineers we focus, quite One of the most gifted “engineers” I’ve ever met has no rationally and wrongly, on marketing and role models degree. He often talked about going to university to get his as a solution. Wrongly, because the problem is not just a degree, while we simply argued – why? He was everything lack of supply but that engineering graduates abandon the I could ever need and more. profession, either voluntarily or unwillingly. That’s because it’s industry, not universities, that Engineering is a very difficult course. It’s demanding

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intellectually and it’s an extremely heavy workload, almost business cycle. A compelling and enduring employment equivalent to an unpaid full-time job for four years. There proposition is a powerful lure. The Australian Defence are few in society that could attempt and actually succeed Force has always operated this way. Upon graduation, all at engineering. As engineers, we’re at the top of the bell its engineers receive a Queen’s Commission and are put curve. There is a small gene pool from which to choose. straight to work in their chosen field, not strategy. In the meantime, the world has in many ways become The more graduates we turn into real engineers, and ‘soft’. It’s not as resilient and women and men of science are the more they savour the fruits of the profession, the more no longer revered. As long as engineering is hard in a soft likely they are to stay. society, many today will seek out easier options. A compact within industry to employ all graduates will Then there’s the question of practise. Rarely do I meet provide a significant uplift in qualified and experienced a lawyer who hasn’t or doesn’t practice law. Same with professional engineers when the economic and business accountants, who are nearly always CA or CPA. I meet cycles rebound. Academic record is irrelevant. Industry can engineers all the time who haven’t practised or no longer make competent professional engineers of all graduates. do so, and are rarely CPEng. We constantly hear that in the long run, the engineer That’s because our profession leaks like a sieve. Leakage is in demand. But in the long run, said the eminent is a phenomenon that describes the defection of engineers economist John Maynard Keynes, we’re all dead. That and would-be engineers to management consulting and means, in the short run, we must act. many other places that can’t turn them into real engineers. If we do, those ebullient young engineers I meet can So the simple challenge is to stop the leakage. It is likely hang onto their salary, their status and multiply their to be a more successful strategy than trying to attract more professional options, as real engineers know only students to the profession. too well. What might work is an industry commitment to absorb and train all graduates to engineer status, regardless of the Mark Brownley FIEAust CPEng EngExec (pictured) is a senior executive in the energy sector.

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RE-ENGINEERING THE PROFESSION A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

ne of EA’s strategic goals is to be the definitive trust of engineers in Australia. EA as the trusted voice is voice of the profession. In particular, it aims to committed to changing the community’s perception of Oprovide trusted and highly respected leadership engineers by broadening the requirements for registration. and advocacy for the engineering profession, and to raise This isn’t new territory – there are many countries around the standing and recognition of the profession. the world where this has been successfully achieved. EA is Consequently, Engineers Australia CEO Stephen Durkin in a position to champion recognition.” has announced that it is time for EA to more actively NER will replace the existing National Engineering promote the value of engineers and their professionalism Registration Board (NERB). to the broader community. As part of the new register, EA has applied to the “Part of our response is to launch a new EA National Professional Standards Councils (PSC) to endorse a new Engineering Register (NER),” Durkin revealed. professional standards scheme for the organisation. The “This will improve professional recognition and public PSC is a statutory body represented in every state and

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A NEW ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA NATIONAL ENGINEERING REGISTER WILL IMPROVE PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION AND PUBLIC TRUST OF ENGINEERS IN AUSTRALIA.

territory, which has the role of ensuring the community of what the new breed of engineers will face during can have trust in the professionals who are members of an their careers, such as a totally global workplace that endorsed scheme. will present greater opportunities to work elsewhere in PSC does this by ensuring that association members the world, particularly in developing countries. This adhere to strict criteria such as appropriate professional means that internationally recognised qualifications and indemnity insurance, ongoing learning and a required professional standards are increasingly important as the number of years of practice, all underpinned by law. global practitioner becomes a more likely reality. As a NER will deliver a uniform national benchmark of consequence, Chartered status will remain the highest professionalism so consumers can be confident that accreditation available to engineers. the engineers they engage meet fundamental standards In our rapidly changing world, our professional expected across professions. standards must also change if the profession is to maintain Membership of NER will provide assurance that an its relevance, and most importantly, trust and credibility. engineer has achieved the required standard via: EA is responding with NER and also has plans in train • a recognised qualification for simplification of the Chartered assessments process • minimum experience levels to encourage more engineers to apply for the highest • currency of continuing professional development accreditation and passport to practise internationally. • professional indemnity insurance “As the voice of the profession, we are responding • an annual certificate of currency to ensure our members are equipped to be recognised • adherence to EA’s strict code of ethics. as the highest qualified engineers both nationally and Professional Standards Councils CEO, Dr Deen Sanders, internationally. PSS will be available to our Chartered said: “We see being a professional as being part of a bigger members first and is expected to also be available, subject strategy around good regulation and the way we work as a to PSC approval later this year, to our non-chartered nation. So our job is to encourage professions to be strong, members who can demonstrate a minimum of five years to act uniformly and to be properly directed to good post graduate experience,” Durkin said. community outcomes. “I look forward to sharing more information with you “Engineers can be proud of EA, as it is a very strong over the coming months about these significant changes, outfit, a very public and robust community. The proposed not only for our members but the profession overall,” new registration will build on the level of trust that the he added. wider community has for the engineering profession.” Sanders said professionals are becoming more important To fi nd out more and to register your interest in their role in society with research showing people are for priority updates on NER go to not sure who they can trust for sound information based www.engineersaustralia.org.au/pss on expertise. “So to develop a professional standards scheme, which for the consumer resolves the question of who do I trust to provide the information I need, makes perfect sense,” he explained. Sanders’ comments make even more sense in light

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WOMEN IN ENGINEERING WOMEN ENGINEERS TACKLE GENDER BIAS by Desi Corbett

In recognition of the higher number of women represented in Australia’s top 100 list of infl uential engineers this year, a roundtable of prominent engineers drawn from industry, government, parliament and academia discussed the status and future of women in engineering.

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WOMEN IN ENGINEERING

omen in engineering has been the “We know that in Australia over the last two decades subject of much discussion in Engineers the gender pay gap has actually widened and it’s up to 19% Australia and across industry in recent now,” she said. “I think it’s shameful for one of the richest years, with a range of issues that countries in the world to still have this inequality.” continue to impact the number of Faruqi emphasised that there are distinct barriers for femalesW joining and remaining in the profession. career development for part-time women employees. These issues span pay inequality, career opportunities, “You are not considered as someone who is hungry for STEM study, attracting female students to engineering, and a career just because you are the primary caregiver or may the myths around the roles of women in society. have chosen to work part-time,” she explained. The foremost issue in engineering for women is gender “I have pushed for women imbalance, with the majority of the profession historically who have children to come male. Hand in hand with the imbalance are issues of back and work part-time or job attracting women into engineering, the continuing issues share so they can still remain in associated with inequality of pay and lesser opportunities high leadership positions. The for women engineers, including those who return to the barriers I’ve faced have mainly workforce after having children. been raised by men about this NSW Greens MP and spokesperson for women and notion that you can’t be a project THE SOCIETAL multiculturalism, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, is a civil and manager and work part-time or ISSUE IN MY VIEW environmental engineer who has strong opinions about you can’t be a project manager IS THAT WE’VE inequality for women. and share a job.” GOT 50% OF THE POPULATION NOT ACHIEVING THEIR POTENTIAL IN THIS COUNTRY.

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WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT. THIS DIFFERENCE AND DIVERSITY IS A MASSIVE STRENGTH, ESPECIALLY AS WE TACKLE THE COMPLEX PROBLEMS WE L-R: Alexandra Meldrum, Mehreen Faruqi, Mary O’Kane, journalists Desi Corbett and Patrick Durrant, Bronwyn Evans and Jade Gan. FACE TODAY. is to focus on the issue of women on boards, and getting women engineers onto boards. She said these myths need to be dismantled and that the One way of doing this is through quotas for women or for women in the workplace who want to work part-time or job diversity. NSW Greens MP Dr Mehreen Faruqi said gender share must be supported. imbalance is also a big issue in the NSW parliament, and sets Nee Nee Ong, an electrical engineer and the chair of a bad example. Engineers Australia’s Women in Engineering National “In the Upper House there were 13 women MPs out of 42 Committee, says as more men are becoming primary members before the 2015 election, now we have 10. Most of caretakers and utilise flexible work arrangements they do not the office bearers are men. This is a clear difference we also encounter the same barriers as women. Flinders University see in society.” professor of biomedical engineering Karen Reynolds, believes CEO of Standards Australia Dr Bronwyn Evans says not it’s about an ingrained perception of the female role. only women engineers but engineers in general need to be on “The males who are staying at home or perhaps taking boards. Of course engineers of any persuasion need to focus some more of the family responsibility are still accepted when on their performance and Evans said a way of doing this is to they come back to the workplace as being what they were have a high profile. before. I certainly believe that they are not treated the same “Performance is key, but getting a profile is as important as women when they come back. In fact they are celebrated.” an element of being successful in your career. You do that Jade Gan, a mechanical engineer and the chair of Women through having a certain presence. That’s where we need to in Engineering in EA’s Sydney Division, says countries such help younger people,” Evans said. as Sweden and Norway make it compulsory for the father to “How do you develop a profile? Whether it’s through take time off and this may be something for Australia to look sponsorship or advocacy. How do you help people present a at. presence which is around delivering on your commitment?” “It gives it a sense of the norm rather than something to O’Kane has some sage advice to women engineers on celebrate; not special in a good way or a bad way.” getting ahead and making their mark. One avenue of normalising attitudes to women engineers, “I found that I got it [an opportunity] because they wanted for NSW chief scientist and engineer Prof Mary O’Kane, may a woman engineer. I grabbed the opportunities and found start at the top, in getting more women appointed to boards. that then I got appointed in my own right,” she said. “One of “If you look at the women that get appointed, they’re the things I say to young women engineers – you will often largely from the legal and accounting professions. If you get appointed for the wrong reasons because they do need a look at boards in the US however, there is a much greater woman on something … but you run with them.” emphasis on getting technical representation onto boards.” Drilling engineer and Youth Without Borders founder O’Kane went on to say that one important thing for Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a believer in women engineers Engineers Australia and Women in Engineering to be doing grasping opportunities.

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“The concept of affirmative action, quotas or 1990s when there was a great demand for ICT targets or whatever you want to call them; they graduates. “We’d say to people ‘it doesn’t matter do work. If you look at countries that have put if you didn’t study maths; we can get you there’ them in, like Norway and Rwanda, and various and we did!” other places; they have obviously shown results,” Rethinking the university course structure she said. OVER THE LAST and entry level was fully supported by Bronwyn “And yes it makes some people TWO DECADES Evans who related an anecdote about her niece uncomfortable and I think that’s what I see in discovering the joy of physics in her 30s on my generation that’s coming through,” Abdel- THE GENDER going to university then. Magied says. PAY GAP HAS O’Kane, who was involved in Engineers “It represents the fact that women get more ACTUALLY Australia’s university accreditation system opportunities because in their mind, it’s just like WIDENED AND around 25 years ago said today’s issues remain they’ve got a disadvantage because of all the IT’S UP TO 19% the same. “We probably need to make sure that issues they have to face.” NOW. I THINK women in engineering and the accreditation Nee Nee Ong, the chair of the Women in IT’S SHAMEFUL board are much more tightly linked,” she says. Engineering National Committee took the FOR ONE OF Linking the two is necessary, O’Kane says, notion of sponsorship one step further, saying THE RICHEST and it would have to be overseen “to make that women in key positions could be mentors COUNTRIES IN sure that conversation, of the sort we’re having and sponsor/recommend other qualified THE WORLD TO here, goes in very firmly into the accreditation women for key positions or opportunities, and STILL HAVE THIS structures of our professional body”. so proactively help future women engineers. University-based Reynolds supports the idea This would help to eradicate the “boys club” INEQUALITY. of other maths pathways but adds that getting mentality that exists. students to that point is only half the problem. Faruqi believes women should actually promote their “By the time the kids get into high school, if you haven’t gender as a point of difference. got them hooked into science already, you’ve lost them. Then “Women are different. This difference and diversity is they get into high school and the people teaching them, a massive strength, especially as we tackle the complex the more technical subjects like physics and technology, are problems we face today,” she said. highly likely to be male.” The issues concerning female students and STEM subjects “Add to that, high school teachers who don’t necessarily are widely known but O’Kane put forward a way of catching understand what engineering is and what careers are up with the current university lag in the number of women available. I often hear people linking engineering with becoming engineers. something to do with fixing a car. “Just as you don’t have to study mandarin in high school, “And so, instead of talking to people who can inspire to get a degree in mandarin,” she said, “we should be able them, they [girls] are kind of unaware of the breadth of to allow students who have dropped maths somewhere at opportunity available to them.” school, but have maths aptitude, to study engineering at According to Faruqi, exposing girls to engineering through university and finish in minimum time.” internships or work experience would be very beneficial and O’Kane says maths can be taught in an accelerated way she called on Engineers Australia to push for more of these if the person is motivated. She explained it was done in the for young engineers.

L-R: Alexandra Meldrum, Mehreen Faruqi, Jade Gan and Mary O’Kane participate in the lively discussion about women in engineering.

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L-R: Karen Reynolds, Bronwyn Evans, Nee Nee Ong and Yassmin Abdel-Magied all have strong views on the status of women in engineering.

EA National Councillor Alexandra Meldrum, a “There is a loss of prosperity, a loss of potential; there is chemical engineer, says there are “really broad issues of a loss of human potential as well as economic potential.” inequality … we need a whole range of things because O’Kane said what is needed is a diverse set of initiatives clearly, the societal issue in my view is that we’ve got to address the challenges for women in engineering. “It’s 50% of the population not achieving their potential for many pathways for women. There needs to be a very diverse our country. set of approaches and government can be part of it.” ●

Launch of strategic framework for diversity and inclusiveness

he science and engineering Australia’s workforce of the future as differences. The worlds’ most innovative professions came together to new industries will increasingly rely companies have recognised that a Tlaunch a strategic framework for on technology. Yet the numbers of diverse workforce is high performing increasing diversity and inclusiveness young people studying science and and innovative, will develop solutions in the Australian STEM sector at mathematics, the enabling subjects for and products that are relevant to its Parliament House in early June. The these careers, continues to be low. It is customers and will deliver significantly strategy was launched by Senator also a concern that women engineers higher and less volatile financial Michaelia Cash, minister assisting the and scientists continue to leave these performance. prime minister for women and was professions in large numbers. For Australia also, the benefits are attended by leaders in science and While considerable effort has been enormous. Utilising those who already engineering from around Australia. spent on diversity policies in engineering have the crucial skills in science and Parliamentary secretary for science, and science organisations, there has been technology is essential and one of the Karen Andrews, Andrew Mather, vice limited success. For example, 90 percent key reforms that can be implemented president for development WSP Parsons of engineering workplace have policies without significant cost. Other countries Brinkerhoff and member of the Consult for flexible working arrangements but have already recognised the importance Australia Champions for Change, Dr a survey by Engineers Australia shows of diversity in the workforce, especially David Cruickshanks-Boyd, national that the uptake is low. Engineering for innovation and new technologies. president 2015, Engineers Australia, and and science workplaces continue to be Many of these countries have higher Dr Marlene Kanga national president difficult and unsupportive with issues proportions of women in science and 2013, Engineers Australia, participated that are insidious and invisible and engineering than in Australia. It’s a myth in a lively panel discussion. which continue to cause women, in that engineering and technology are This is the first time that particular, to vote with their feet and male dominated industries. In Asia and organisations in the STEM sector leave the profession. the Middle East, 50% of engineering have come together with a practical The benefits of diversity to an students in many universities are approach to address the low numbers of organisation are of course significant. women. In Malaysia, 30 percent of women in the science, engineering and While these policies encourage the women registered to practice by the technology sector. employment of those with different Board of Engineering Malaysia, are It is a timely initiative, given that the background in terms of age, ethnicity, women. Australian government has recognised gender and other characteristics, The strategic framework is available that STEM skills are important for inclusiveness goes further to value the at: http://bit.ly/1QRazQd. ●

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AUSTRALIA'S TOP 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL ENGINEERS 2015

Selecting the top 100 42 Advisory Panel by Tim Kannegieter, Managing Editor 43 Statistics n the 12th edition of our Top 100 Most 44 Alphabetical Listing However, the inclusion of a new IInfluential Engineers in Australia, category made judging harder than 46 Academia & Research we celebrate the highest ever number ever, because it meant there was of women appearing on the list: a total less room for people in other cat- 49 Associations of 19. We decided to recognise this by egories. Recognition must therefore be interviewing a number of them for this accorded to the advisory panel (see 50 Community issue’s cover story (see p. 36). p. 42), which included a larger number In addition, we have also had a rec- of academics to better evaluate the 52 Consulting ord turnover of candidates, with 37% new academic, research, innovation and faces compared to last year’s list, although expertise categories. While we aimed to 54 Contractors & Services some have appeared in previous years. be as objective as possible in comparing This is partly because of an unusually 56 Entrepreneurs & Experts candidates, we often had to rely on the high movement of people to new roles, experience of our panel to make the hard 60 Industry but it’s also due to a greater investment decisions on who to omit. on our part in researching leaders in The judging process remains un- 63 Manufacturing each category, particularly the research changed from last year. Candidates must and expertise areas. be eligible for membership of Engineers 65 Politics The main innovation in this year’s Australia and either be Australian citizens list is the introduction of a new category or foreign nationals working in Australia. 65 Public Service called Panel’s Pick. We included this new Practically, we sought an equitable dis- category because we wanted to recognise 68 Utilities tribution across the range of categories a number of people who are influential and compare candidates primarily within 70 Panel’s Pick simply because they are inspirational. their category. People admire what they do and seek to emulate them.

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Alex Baitch HonFIEAust, CPEng Robert Care AM FIEAust rof Alex Baitch was the 2014 national president Pfor Engineers Australia and has served EA in r Robert Care is a Fellow of various roles for more than 35 years. He is the DEngineers Australia, the Aus- principal of his own consulting practice in electrical tralian Academy of Technological engineering and is an honorary professorial fellow Sciences & Engineering and the of the University of Wollongong. Baitch is active Australian Institute of Management. within the IEC and Standards Australia on matters He is a principal of Arup Group related to power quality, embedded generation and based in Canberra. His commitment high voltage installations. to the community is reflected in his appointment to the RedR Australia (Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief) Board in 2006 and subsequent Paul Dougas HonFIEAust EngExec election as Chair from 2008 to 2010. In 2012 he was made a member of rof Paul Dougas is of CELM and also chair- the Order of Australia for his services Pthe former CEO of man of the Engineering to Engineering, Business, Humani- Sinclair Knight Merz and Leadership Conference tarian Pro- is currently on the boards 2014 steering commit- grams and of several organisations, tee. He is a professorial Athletics. In including Global CCSI, fellow in the Engineering 2014 he was Mount Gibson Iron, School of the University recognised Epworth Health and the of Melbourne, covering as Engineers Calibre Global. He was industry engagement Australia’s the inaugural chairman and leadership. Professional Engineer of the Year. Doug Hargreaves AM FIEAust EngExec CPEng rof Doug Hargreaves executive officer for the Pis a mechanical en- Australian Council of Robin King gineer with 28 years Engineering Deans and, FIEAust CPEng experience in academia as such, coordinates the (QUT) and 11 years in deans of 37 universities obin King was formerly pro-vice industry. At QUT, he across the country. He Rchancellor for IT, engineering is currently the deans was national president and the environment at the Uni- scholars academic direc- of Engineers Australia versity of South Australia. He has tor. Hargreaves is the in 2010. honorary positions at that institu- tion, the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales. He now works as an Alexandra Meldrum engineering education consultant and is chair of the ATSE Education FIEAust CPEng Forum. lexandra Meldrum is a member of the National ACouncil of Engineers Australia and was the 2014 president of the Sydney Division. She is a Fellow of Engineers Australia, Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Meldrum is a change management specialist and has 20 years corporate experience as an engineer, senior executive and director.

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Discipline Location CIVIL NSW WA 32% 40% 15% QLD OTHER 17% 14% VIC 14% MECHANICAL ACT 6% 15%

SA 4% ELECTRICAL TAS 2% 15%

CHEMICAL 13% Members OVERSEAS ITEE 5% 8% 59%

Gender Non-members University 41%

81% 19%

USYD International 5% Universities MONASH 28% 6% Other UWA Australian 8% UQ UNSW Universities 10% 16% 27%

his year saw a big leap in the number of women in the surged 4%, taking second spot from the University of TTop 100 – up from 11% last year and just 5% the year Sydney last year. All the main disciplines saw their lead before. NSW retains its premier position, but has seen its eroded in the face of a rise in speciality disciplines, led by lead eroded by 3% from last year, though it is still up on ITEE, which made the chart for the first time, breaking its 38% share in 2012. Similarly, the University of NSW our 5% cut off rule. The percentage of members in the remains the biggest source of Top 100 engineers, but is list fell from a high of 75% last year. down by 2%, as the University of Queensland’s share has

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43 g - Stats.indd 43 26/06/15 12:44 PM TOP 100 ALPHABETICAL LISTING • Academia & research • Associations Community Higgins, David – HS2, p. 69 • • Abdel-Magied , Yassmin – Youth Without • Borders, p. 50 • Consulting • Hirschfeld , Kathy - ASC, InterOil, Transfi eld, Amal, Rose – University of NSW, p. 59 Toxfree Solutions, p. 71 Contractors & services • • Jenkins, Chris – Th ales Australia & NZ, p. 64 Entrepreneurs & experts Arns, Christoph – University of NSW, p. 57 • • • Industry Jensen, Colin – Brisbane City Council, p. 66 Bailey, Peter – Arup Group and Australasia • • • Manufacturing region, p. 52 Johnston, Archie – University of Sydney, p. 46 • • Barrie, Matt – Freelancer.com, p. 57 • Politics • • Kanga, Marlene – R&D Incentives Committee, Beynon , John – Global Engineering Deans p. 51 Public service • • Council, p. 47 Utilities • Kendall, Mark – Australian Institute for • Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (UQ), Panel’s Pick Bose, Neil – University of Tasmania, p. 48 • • p. 59 • Broe, Barry – Qld Government, p. 65 Khan, Stuart – University of NSW, p. 70 Brown, Geoff – RAAF, p. 67 • • King, Grant – Origin Energy, p. 69 Savvides, George – Medibank Private, p. 60 Brown , Lizzie – Engineers Without Borders, • • • Scales, Neil – Qld Government, p. 67 p. 51 • Labbad, Dan – Lend Lease, p. 55 • Laslett, Craig – Leighton Contractors, p. 54 Shepherd, Ian – GHD, p. 52 • Cameron , Alec – University of Western • • Australia, p. 47 • Lawson, Bill – Beacon Foundation, p. 51 • Sindel, Rob – CSR, p. 64 Caspari, David – Optus Business, p. 61 Singleton , David – Infrastructure Sustainability • • Lee, Peter – Southern Cross University, p. 47 • Charlton, Scott – Transurban, p. 62 Council of Australia, p. 49 • • Leslie, Keith – CSIRO, p. 58 Cheng, Marita – Robogals Global, p. 70 • Skafi das, Stan – Centre for Neural Engineering • • Liveris , Andrew – Th e DOW Chemical (University of Melbourne), p. 59 Coleman, Peter – Woodside, p. 62 Company, p. 63 • Sloan, Scott William – ARC Centre of Lovell, Nigel – University of NSW, p. 58 • • Cox, William – Aurecon, p. 52 • Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Mareels , Iven – University of Melbourne, p. 47 Engineering (UON), p. 56 • Cransberg, Alan – Alcoa of Australia, p. 63 • Marmion, Bill – WA Government, p. 65 Stewart, David – QLD Government, p. 65 • Crozier, Stuart – Th e University • • of Queensland, p. 57 Taylor, Ross – UGL, p. 54 • Mau, Sandra – TrademarkVision, p. 71 • Cruickshanks-Boyd, David – Engineers Taylor , Elizabeth – RedR Australia and RedR • • McKinnie, Shireane – Defence Materiel • Australia, p. 49 Organisation, p. 67 International, p. 51 Cutifani, Mark – Anglo America, p. 61 Templeton , Guy – WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff , • • Meka, Zimi – Ausenco, p. 53 • Dennis, Peter – Seqwater, p. 68 p. 53 • Michener, Alistair – Drawboard, p. 70 • Th orne, Colin – Defence Materiel Organisation, • Dougherty, Maureen – Boeing Australia and Morrow, Bill – nbn, p. 69 • South Pacifi c, p. 64 • p. 66 Murphy, Sue – Water Corporation of Western • Vann , Andrew – Charles Sturt University, p. 46 • Douglas, John – Coff ey International, p. 52 Australia, p. 68 • Velletri, Robert – Monadelphous, p. 55 Durkin , Stephen – Engineers Australia, p. 50 Noble, Alan – Google Australia and • • • New Zealand, p. 60 Verdes , Marcelino Fernandez – CIMIC Group, Evans, Bronwyn – Standards Australia, p. 49 • • p. 55 O’Kane, Mary – NSW Government, p. 66 Every, Bob – University of NSW, p. 60 • • Waters, Ralph – Woolworths, p. 62 Fagg , Kathryn – Reserve Bank of Australia, O’Rourke, Cathal – Laing O’Rourke Australia, • • • p. 61 p. 54 • Wilson, Jimmy – BHP Billiton Iron Ore, p. 61 Ostergaard, Paul – Norwood Systems, p.58 Wood, Andrew – WorleyParsons, p. 53 • Farrell, Mick – ResMed, p. 64 • • Paterson, Adi – ANSTO, p. 48 Worlock , Steve – BAE Systems Australia, p. 63 • Faruqi, Mehreen – NSW Parliament, p. 65 • • Pinczewski, Val – University of NSW, p. 57 Wyeth , Gordon – Queensland University Ficca, Nino – AusNet Services, p. 68 • • • of Technology, p. 48 Power, Nev – Fortescue Metals Group, p. 62 Finkel, Alan – Australian Academy of • • York , Merryn – Powerlink Queensland, p. 69 Technological Science and Engineering, p. 50 Raper, Judy – University of Wollongong, • • p. 46 Young, Ian – Th e Australian National University, • Flecker, John – Brookfi eld Multiplex • Australasia, p. 55 p. 46 • Reynolds , Karen – Medical Device Research Institute (Flinders University), p. 56 Young, Kevin – Sydney Water, p. 69 • Goodwin, Andy – SMEC, p. 53 • Rio, Robert – Rio Industrial Group, p. 63 Yuan , Zhiguo – Advanced Water Management Graham, Vince – Networks NSW, p. 68 • • • Centre (UQ), p. 70 Roberts, Chris – Cochlear, p. 64 Guo , Yingjie – Global Big Data Technologies • • Zelinsky , Alex – Defence Science and Centre (UTS), p. 59 Robinson, David – McConnell Dowell • • Technology Organisation, p. 67 Corporation, p. 54 • Hallion, Jim – SA Government, p. 66 Sahajwalla , Veena – Centre for Sustainable Harding, Andrew – Rio Tinto, p. 60 • • Materials Research and Technology (UNSW), Heiser, Gernot – University of NSW, p. 56 • p. 58

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Untitled-11 1 19/06/15 2:02 PM ACADEMIA/RESEARCH : TOP 100 ACADEMIA/RESEARCH

Archie Johnston Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Sydney Civil engineer, Heriot-Watt University, UK

ohnston oversees one alliances with Chinese Jof Australia’s top ter- universities Shanghai tiary engineering fac- Jiao Tong and Tsinghua, ulties, with a staff of his board appointment to 430, more than 5500 Chile’s New Engineering students and an an- for 2030 by Chile’s Min- Northrup Grumman and nual turnover of $160 istry of Economy, a stra- a $62 million relation- million. His global suc- tegic partnership with ship with multi national cesses include two new global security company Rio Tinto. Judy Raper Deputy Vice-Chancellor Ian Young AO HonFIEAust CPEng (Research), University of Wollongong, NSW Vice-Chancellor, The Australian National University, Canberra Chemical engineer, UNSW Coastal and ocean engineer, James Cook University

n addition to her position at UOW, oung is responsible Over the last year, IRaper is a member of the Austra- Yfor the strategic di- 14 of ANU’s disciplines lian Nuclear Science and Technology rection and operation ranked in the top 25 in Organisation and UniMutual boards, of The Australian Na- world, and four in the top as well as several research institutes. tional University (ANU). 10, according to the QS Under her stewardship, the uni- He is also chair of the World University Rank- versity has seen significant increases Group of Eight (Go8), ings. This was more than in funding over the past year, as well the representative body any other Australian uni- as increases in publications and im- of Australia’s leading versity. Young has also pact. The university’s class research research universities, and led major administrative facilities have also grown, with the the Victorian Research reform across ANU and completion of the Illawarra Flame and Education Net- played a major role in house at the Innovation Campus, the work, which supplies IT public debate on the de- Early Start Facility and the ground infrastructure to Victo- regulation of university breaking for the i-Accelerate Centre. rian universities. tuition fees.

Andrew Vann FIEAust Vice-Chancellor and President, Charles Sturt University, NSW Civil engineer, Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University), UK

ann’s role at Charles Sturt Univer- nor role for the NSW Vice-Chancellor’s Vsity (CSU) sees him responsible for Committee and has continued as presi- 40,000 students, the equivalent of 2200 dent of the Australian Higher Educa- full time staff and an annual turnover tion Industrial Association, as well as of $500 million. CSU is in the process his appointment with the NSW TAFE of instituting an engineering degree and Commission Board. it is really important that educational will also open its new Port Macquarie “There is a lot of change and uncer- leaders are focused on producing the campus soon. tainty occurring around tertiary educa- skills and knowledge that industry and This year, he has taken on the conve- tion,” Vann said. “From my perspective the community need.”

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Peter Lee FIEAust CPEng Vice-Chancellor and President, Southern Cross University, Lismore Chemical engineer, Monash University

ee oversees about 900 staff and bour Technology Centre, and Higher Lan annual turnover of around Education Services. In 2015, Southern $200 million. He is also chair of the Cross University continues the rollout Regional Universities Network, a group of its engineering programs, with new of six universities located in regional laboratories commissioned and the Australia, and is on the board of Uni- planned introduction of mechanical versities Australia, NICTA, Coffs Har- engineering in 2016.

Iven Mareels FIEAust CPEng EngExec NEW Dean, Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne Electromechanical engineer, Ghent University, Belgium

s Dean, Mareels initiated the his work on the control of large scale Auniversity’s Melbourne Accel- irrigation channels. Mareels is also a erate Program, an effort to assist sought after speaker in the sustain- entrepreneurs and startups. He also ability sector, and has presented plenary introduced the Master of Entrepre- lectures at international conferences neurship Program. in Spain, Sri Lanka, China and India. Mareels is chair of the Go8 Deans As part of the Go8 Deans, he hosted in Engineering and is an advisor to the the Indigenous Engineering Summit, International Federation of Automatic promoting parity participation for Control. He received the IEEE Control indigenous people in engineering Systems Society Technology Award, for education and professions.

Alec Cameron NEW Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), University of Western Australia Robotics engineer, University of Oxford, UK

n his role at UWA, Cameron leads ment and engagement and relationships School of Busi- Ithe academic programs and educa- with key education partners. ness, overseeing tion mission for the institution’s 26,000 Prior to joining the university, Cam- its emergence students. He oversees the use of infor- eron was president of the Australian from the integration of academic units mation technology, course structures, Business Deans Council, and he was at UNSW after being appointed the international activities, student recruit- the driving force behind the Australian School’s inaugural dean in 2006.

John Beynon FIEAust Chair, Global Engineering Deans Council, Adelaide Metallurgical engineer, University of Sheffield, UK

he Global Engineering Deans education, and likewise their similar TCouncil (GEDC) has members in work in India. Beynon played an active over 30 countries and major corporate role in this effort. partners like Airbus. In 2014, GEDC He also addressed an Organisation established a working relationship with of American States meeting of science the World Bank to support their devel- and technology ministers in Guatemala, opment projects in sub-Saharan Africa March 2015, on the contribution of engi- through the develop ment of engineering neering education to economic well-being.

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Gordon Wyeth FIEAust NEW Executive Dean, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology Computer engineer, The University of Queensland

yeth’s faculty international awards Weducates 10,000 for the enrichment of STEM students each foods for developing year, and he manages an countries, fellowships FIEAust annual turnover of $200 for statistical machine Adi Paterson million. The faculty learning and $19 mil- CEO, Australian Nuclear has a rapidly growing lion in funding to give Science and Technology list of achievements robots the ability to see Organisation (ANSTO), NSW in research, including and understand. Chemical engineer, University of Cape Town, South Africa

aterson oversees ANSTO’s 1200 NEW Pstaff at the organisation’s Lucas Heights, Camperdown and Clayton sites, with an operating budget in the hundreds of millions of dollars. ANSTO operates a portfolio of nuclear businesses, key landmark infrastructure and user services for industry and academia. Among its capital works under- takings, ANSTO is currently con- structing a global scale processing facility for the production of mo- lybdenum-99, which will position Australia as a major exporter of the vital medical radionuclide .

Neil Bose FIEAust CPEng Principal and CEO, Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania Naval architecture and ocean engineer, University of Glasgow, UK

ose’s main role is fective maritime training autonomous underwater Bto lead planning courses for Torres Strait vehicle under the Antarc- to guide the strategic Islanders in conjunction tic Gateway project. direction of the Austra- with the Australian Mari- AMC is also making a lian Maritime College time Safety Authority. The feature of industry based (AMC) and to deliver College is also developing PhDs, especially in mari- its mission of provid- a strong international time defence, through ing maritime education, group focused on human an Australian Research training and research. elements in seafaring and Council co-funded In- AMC has recently has been awarded fund- dustrial Transformation developed innovative ef- ing for a next generation Training Centre.

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David Cruickshanks-Boyd NEW FIEAust CPEng EngExec

National President, Engineers Australia Metallurgical engineer, Birmingham University, UK

n addition to leading EA’s National ICouncil, the institution’s governing body, Cruickshanks-Boyd is currently the national director for sustainability Bronwyn Evans at Parsons Brinckerhoff, and chair- FIEAust EngExec man of Scope Global. He has been deputy chair of the CEO, Standards Australia, national board of the Centre for Canberra Engineering Leadership and Man- Electrical engineer, agement, and was very active in the University of Wollongong proposal that led to the establishment of the new College of Leadership and s CEO of Standards Australia Management. Achievements this year A(SA), Evans is responsible for include the successful campaign to defining and delivering on the stra- reform the governance of Engineers tegic plan for the business, Australia’s Australia with over 80% of members peak non-government standards endorsing the changes. organisation. SA has 110 staff with responsibility for 1050 national tech- nical committees, 450 international technical committees and over 7000 expert contributors. Evans is director at the Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering, and was chair of the Centre for Engi- neering Leadership and Management. In the past year she also won the 2014 EA President’s Award, was appointed to chair the Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals Growth Centre, and was appointed to the board of the Australia-Japan Foundation.

David Singleton HonFIEAust EngExec CPEng Chair, EA College of Leadership and Management, Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA) Civil engineer, University of Nottingham, UK

ingleton is active in public policy the South East Asia region, and has At the College of Leadership and Sand is sought for his expertise and seen a record number of project rat- Management, he is driving a program influence across leadership, infra- ings. Singleton’s leadership and influ- of activity to reconnect and re-link structure planning and delivery and ence have been vital in producing disenfranchised engineers with EA and enterprise sustainability. long term sustainable infrastructure with the broader industry, commuities Over the last year, ISCA has ex- that facilitates socio-economic growth and businesses. panded to include New Zealand and across Australia.

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Alan Finkel AM FIEAust Stephen President, Australian Academy of Technological Durkin FIEAust Sciences and Engineering, Melbourne Chief Executive, Electrical engineer, Monash University Engineers Australia inkel’s role sees him provide Civil engineer, Monash Fstrategic and public direction to University ATSE’s 830 Fellows and permanent staff. He is also chancellor of Monash here have been a num- University and executive publisher Tber of achievements of Cosmos magazine. and highlights at EA over the past year, according to Durkin. In the last year, ATSE’s Research For example, the institution has taken big steps in its plans Engagement Australia proposal, to modernise, particularly with the success of Ballot 2015. which aims to develop metrics for EA’s strategy to be the trusted voice of the profession is also measuring the level of engagement playing out well, with a five-fold increase in media coverage between industry and research in- from when the effort was kicked off a few years previously. stitutes, has been submitted to and In 2014, Durkin was recognised as the Monash Univer- publicly supported by the relevant ministers and is now sity Civil Engineering Alumnus of the Year, and received in a proof of concept trial with South Australian and an award from the World Federation of Engineering Or- Queensland universities. ganisations (WFEO) in acknowledgment of the work that Finkel has also led a new approach to secondary school went into EA’s successful bid to host the World Engineering science education, based on weekly lessons in the context Convention 2019, to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of articles published in Cosmos magazine. of Engineers Australia.

COMMUNITY : TOP 100 COMMUNITY

Yassmin Abdel-Magied NEW Founder and President, Youth Without Borders, Perth Mechanical Engineer, University of Queensland

t 16, Yassmin Abdel-Magied Afounded Youth Without Borders, an organisation focused on enabling young people to work for positive change in their communities. She is a social advocate and regular commenta- tor both nationally and internationally, and has appeared on programs like the ABC’s Q&A. Based in Perth, she works as an offshore drilling engineer for a major multinational energy company. In the past year she was given the title of 2015 Queensland Young Aus- tralian of the Year. She has expanded the presence of Youth Without Borders, with the organisation now having a presence in three states. She also spoke at the National Press Club in Canberra and won Instyle magazine’s ‘Women of Style’ Charity and Community award.

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Elizabeth Taylor AO HonFIEAust

Chair, RedR Australia and RedR International, Sydney Civil engineer, University of NSW

edR Australia is amazing”, “R Taylor says. “Since it start- ed in 1992 the engineering profes- sion has nurtured and supported its growth. “It is now a highly respected pro- UN agencies. vider of competent and committed ex- Taylor also serves as chair of the perts, from telecoms engineers to child EA Accreditation Board and is the EA protection officers, relieving suffering delegate to the International Engineering Lizzie Brown FIEAust in disasters.” Agreements. In 2014, the Australasian RedR training hones skills, and Association for Engineering Education CEO, Engineers Without presently the organisation is sup- awarded her the title of Distinguished Borders Australia, Melbourne porting 51 deployees worldwide, Member, and inaugural inductee into Environmental engineer, including Nepal and Vanuatu. RedR their Hall of Fame along with Prof The University of Queensland Australia is a Standby Partner of eight Robin King. izzie Brown has been involved Lwith Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) since 2004, first as a volunteer, then as the education Marlene Kanga AM co-ordinator, and then in 2010 she HonFIEAust CPEng became the CEO. A global leader in humanitarian engineering, she Chair, R&D Incentives Committee, Sydney drives a community of 15,000 sup- Chemical engineer, Indian Institute of Technology porters – including 2000 volunteers who recognise the role that engineer- to claim the Incentive for Water Corporation, the ing, technology and infrastructure the 2013-14 year, with largest water utility in play in creating sustained change total R&D expenditures Australia. for communities. arlene Kanga exceeding $20 billion. In June a strategic Brown was recognised last year Mchairs the R&D Kanga is also acting chair diversity and inclu- for her contribution to humanitarian Incentives Commit- of Innovation Australia, sion framework, de- engineering as a winner in The Aus- tee, which administers an independent statutory veloped by Kanga for tralian Financial Review and Westpac the largest innovation body established to assist engineering and tech- 100 Women of Influence Awards. support program for with the administration nology workplaces, was industry in Australia of the Australian gov- launched by Senator via the R&D incentive. ernment’s innovation Michaelia Cash at an Approximately 13,000 programs, and a board EA event at Parliament companies are expected member of the Sydney House in Canberra.

Bill Lawson AM FIEAust Founder and Chair, Beacon Foundation, Hobart Civil engineer, University of Tasmania

he Beacon Foundation, established unemployment, where the risk and the and co-chair of peoples’ movement Tin 1988 by Lawson, has grown to need are greatest and it will assist over Recognise in Tasmania. become a national not for profit or- 15,000 young Australians from just over In the past year Lawson consolidated ganisation, operating in all Australian 120 schools and communities in 2015. Beacon’s influence with the federal gov- states and territories. Beacon focuses Lawson is also a member of the Prime ernment and was invited to be the first on disadvantaged communities and Minister’s Expert Panel for Constitutional Tasmanian to join the board of Recon- areas of high youth disengagement and Recognition of indigenous Australians ciliation Australia.

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Ian Shepherd FIEAust CPEng CEO, GHD, Perth Civil engineer, Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University)

with revenues of $1.5 200 offices around the billion expected for 2015. world. The company is s CEO, Shepherd is The recent merger of also one of only two com- Aresponsible for the GHD and CRA has creat- panies in the engineering implementation of GHD’s ed one of the top privately and technical consult- client-service led strategy owned companies in the ing sector to receive the John Douglas and under his leadership, global engineering and Employer of Choice for Managing Director and CEO, the company has devel- technical consulting sec- Gender Equality cita- Coffey International, Sydney oped a geographically tor. GHD now has 8500 tion from the Workplace balanced global business people across more than Gender Equality Agency. Civil engineer, University of Adelaide

n his four years as Managing Peter Bailey FIEAust CPEng IDirector, Douglas has re-focused Coffey on its core businesses of geo- Director, Arup Group and Australasia Region CEO and Chair, Sydney services, project management and Structural engineer, University of Sydney international development. Coffey employs about 4000 people working ailey is a member of the global board in 80 countries around the world. Bof Arup Group overseeing the entire “In 2015, we’ve further built on Arup operation. The company’s presence our client focus, winning two awards worldwide consists of 91 offices, in 39 at the Financial Review Client Choice countries, with 12,000 planners, designers, Awards,” Douglas said. engineers and consultants. Arup global rev- The awards were for the Best enue increased to $2.3 billion for 2014/15. Provider to the Construction and There are 12 offices with over 1380 staff in Infrastructure Sector and the Best the Australasia Region and its revenue was Queensland Firm. $252 million in the same period, represent- ing an increase in profitability of 4.5%. Bailey is a Consult Australia “Champion of Change” and a public advocate for gender diversity in the industry. In the past year Arup was awarded Best Engineering Firm (>$200m) in the Financial Review Client Choice Awards.

William Cox FIEAust NEW Managing Director ANZ, Aurecon, Sydney Civil engineer, University of NSW

ox has overall responsibility for and energy and infrastructure markets. Cthe leadership and performance Recently, Cox has been instrumental in driving the company’s of the business in Australia and New diversity business case across Australia and New Zealand. Zealand – including safety, client en- Most prominent is his championing of gender equality and gagement, staff engagement, project and financial performance. cultural and racial diversity through Aurecon’s Reconciliation He leads the Aurecon business in delivering projects across the Plan. Cox is also an ambassador for the Workplace Gender advisory and asset management, built environment, resources Equality Agency Pay Equality Programme.

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Guy Templeton FIEAust Andy NEW President and CEO Asia Pacific, Goodwin WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff, Sydney Managing Director Electrical engineer, University of NSW and CEO, SMEC, Melbourne empleton is responsible for around 5000 staff in Mechanical engineer, University Tthe Asia Pacific working on rail, road, mining, of Witwatersrand, South Africa power and water infrastructure projects. WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff combined in late 2014 and is now one oodwin is responsible for of the world’s leading engineering professional GSMEC’s revenue of over $450 services consulting firms operating with two highly- million last year and the overall respected brands. management of the SMEC Group Recently, Consult Australia named the company with 5400 employees across a net- ‘Large Firm of the Year’ (2013 and 2014). WSP|Parsons work of 75 offices in more than 35 Brinckerhoff won the ‘Safety in Design’ and ‘Sustain- countries. Since taking over last year, ability in Design’ awards for the Central Thermal Plant Goodwin has set a number of key in Sydney’s Central Park Precinct. focus areas in place. “I plan to focus on: building long term partnerships with our clients; growing the business organically; Andrew Wood FIEAust strengthening our capability in emerg- ing markets; further developing our CEO, WorleyParsons, Melbourne people; and fully integrating our sys- Civil engineer, University of Adelaide tems and processes globally,” he said. Within the last year, SMEC has ood is respon- countries, generating an- won several prestigious awards with sible for executive nual revenue of around W success at the Consult Australia leadership of WorleyPar- $9 billion. Awards for Excellence, Governor of sons, a leading provider Recently, Wood has Victoria Export Awards, Australian of project delivery and identified five long-term Charity Awards, Consulting Engi- consulting services to the goals for the company: neers South Africa (CESA) awards resources & energy in- building a world class and the South African Institution of dustries. WorleyParsons consulting business; be- maintenance business; Civil Engineers awards. has a comprehensive coming the leading glob- being the most agile lo- global network compris- al project management cal service provider; and ing 35,100 people in 157 consultant; creating a developing low-cost, lo- offices throughout 46 leading asset services and cal delivery centres.

Zimi Meka FIEAust Managing Director and CEO, Ausenco, Brisbane Mechanical engineer, Queensland Institute of Technology (now Queensland University of Technology)

quickly when new opportunities arise. In the current cost-sensitive environ- ment, Ausenco’s reputation for innova- tion, combined with their expertise eka is responsible for a global team in asset optimisation, is winning the Mlocated across 31 offices in 19 company business in new markets from countries. He is vital in developing and new and existing clients. Meka continues managing Ausenco’s corporate strategy, to be one of 11 business leaders taking and mentoring the company’s leaders to a public stand on the issue of gender continue to grow the business, without diversity as a Queensland Male Cham- limiting the company’s ability to move pion of Change.

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Cathal O’Rourke CPEng David Managing Director, Robinson Laing O’Rourke Australia, Sydney FIEAust, CPEng Civil engineer, University of Birmingham, UK CEO, McConnell Asia, overseeing more and changing traditional Dowell than 3000 employees methods of construction Corporation, and revenues of around and fostering the indus- Melbourne $3 billion. try’s best people. This en- Civil engineer, University In the past year, Laing hanced focus saw Laing of Western Australia O’Rourke conducted a O’Rourke recognised as strategic expansion of Australia’s 8th Most In- obinson heads the corporation verseeing the its regional infrastruc- novative Company in the Rand its subsidiary companies Ocompany’s Austra- ture skills into new prestigious BRW Top 50 with more than 7500 employees and lia Hub, O’Rourke has sectors and complex Innovative Companies group annual revenues in excess of responsibility for op- infrastructure projects. list and also voted by US$5.5 billion. He also serves as di- erations across Austra- O’Rourke has cham- graduates as the #3 Best rector of McConnell Dowell’s South lia, New Zealand, Hong pioned the company Graduate Employer in African parent company, Aveng. Kong and South East vision of challenging Australia (AAGE index). Recent achievements saw two McConnell Dowell projects among the final six shortlisted for the Australian Constructors Associa- Craig Laslett FIEAust Ross Taylor tion (ACA) Excellence Awards. The MIEAust, CPEng APLNG Pipeline Project was also Managing Director, Leighton awarded the 2015 Infrastructure Contractors, Sydney Managing Director Partnerships Australia (IPA) Con- Civil engineer, University and CEO, UGL, Sydney tractor excellence award. of South Australia Civil engineer, raig Laslett leads the new University of Queensland Cconstruction engineering com- pany for the CIMIC Group (formerly Leighton Holdings). aylor joined UGL as review of the diversi- Recently, Laslett achieved the TCEO in November fied engineering ser- start-up of the company that is now 2014, following his suc- vices company, putting in providing strong engineering and cessful implementation place a new operational technical support to the CIMIC of a five year operational structure and defined Group in Australia, New Zealand turnaround and strategic path to improving finan- and across Asia. In addition, as part plan at Tenix as Group cial performance. of his broader leadership role within CEO. Taylor is also a “This is an exciting CIMIC, he continues to provide director on the board of time for the business. As strong leadership to industry and in the Australian Contrac- of the end of the 2014/15 the community through his board tors Association and is financial year, we have a associations with CareerTrack- a non-executive direc- committed forward order ers, EA’s College of Leadership & tor and chairman of the book of $5.1 billion and Management and the Australian Bairo Pite Clinic, a not- are about to commence Constructors Association. for-profit organisation some major contracts focused on the provision within our Technology of health care in Austra- Systems and Asset Ser- lia’s nearby neighbour vices divisions, which Timor-Leste. will further complement At UGL, Taylor has our core Rail, Power and led a comprehensive LNG projects,” he said.

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Rob Velletri MIEAust Managing Director, Monadelphous, Perth Mechanical engineer, University of Western Australia

During this time, he has tivity a top priority. overseen Monadelphous’ “By working together strategic development we are able to harness into one of Australia’s the collective talents of leading construction and our people to reach our services companies in goals and those of our mining, oil and gas and customers,” Velletri said. infrastructure sectors. “In these challenging In the past year the times it is particularly company has broadened important, as we work Dan Labbad elletri joined Mon- its revenue base seeking at improving productiv- Vadelphous in 1989 opportunities in the off- ity, focus on innovation CEO International Operations, and has taken on the shore energy sector. The as well as continuing to Lend Lease, Sydney role of managing direc- mining downturn has also broaden and diversify Civil engineer, University tor for the last 12 years. made improving produc- our markets.” of Technology Sydney abbad was appointed to the LCEO International Operations John Flecker FIEAust role in 2014. He is responsible for overseeing the expansion of CEO, Brookfield Multiplex Australasia, Perth Lend Lease’s Europe, Americas and Civil engineer, University of Western Australia Asia regions. Labbad has recently outlined an lecker leads an or- In the past year, ambitious plan for the company’s Fganisation of more Brookfield Multiplex international operations, promising than 1000 employees (BM) acquired the En- that the group will target fewer in Australia, spanning gineering Innovations markets and be more disciplined several sectors including Group (EiG). EiG works than during its previous period non-process infrastruc- across all BM projects, of offshore expansion. Targeting ture, such as remote rationalising structural the US, Britian and Asian growth accommodation in the designs and enhanc- markets of Malaysia, Singapore, mining sector, water, ing construction and appointed as the de- China and Japan, Labbad has commercial, infrastruc- erection techniques. As sign and construction been given the task of increasing ture, health, retail, resi- part of the Westadium contractor for the new international earnings by 10% (up dential and education. consortium, BM was Perth Stadium. from 25% in 2014).

Marcelino Fernandez Verdes Executive Chairman and CEO, CIMIC Group, Sydney Civil engineer, University of Barcelona, Spain

ernández Verdes is responsible for lining its operations. This included Fthe leadership and strategic direc- strengthening the company’s balance tion of CIMIC Group, one of the world’s sheet, streamlining its operating model leading international contractors and the and improving project delivery. It also world’s largest contract miner, and for the involved the establishment of dedicated leadership of the company’s board. He is businesses focused on contract mining, also the chairman and CEO of German construction, public private partnerships construction company HOCHTIEF. and engineering. This year Fernández Verdes com- Fern ndez Verdes was also a recipient menced a strategic review of CIMIC’s of a Commendation of Number of the operations to transform the company’s Order of Civil Merit from the Kingdom model by internationalising and stream- of Spain. NEW

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Gernot Heiser MIEAust John Lions Chair of Operating Systems, UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sydney Computer engineer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

cientia Prof Gernot Heiser also leads overhead environments like embedded SNational ICT Australia’s (NICTA) systems. His second was showing that a Software Systems Research Group. His specific microkernel could be proved to research interests are “truly dependable” be free of bugs, redefining people’s notion operating systems, microkernels (and of the possible and triggering worldwide microkernel-based systems virtualisa- efforts for verifying systems code. tion), energy management and real-time Last year Heiser was made a systems. Heiser’s first main achievement Fellow of the ACM, the largest and in microkernel research was to show oldest association of computing profes- that microkernels could be used in low sionals worldwide.

Karen Reynolds FIEAust Director, Medical Device Research Institute (MDRI), Flinders University, Adelaide Biomedical engineer, Oxford University, UK

s Director of Flinders University’s In 2014, in recognition of her signifi- AMedical Device Research Institute cant contributions to industry develop- and the Medical Device Partnering ment and medical device innovation, Program, Reynolds is committed to Reynolds was awarded the Medical connecting research and industry to Technology Association of Australia’s enhance health technology innovation. Outstanding Achievement Award. She She is playing a pivotal role in the devel- was also elected as an inaugural Fellow opment of a Health Innovation precinct of the Australian Academy of Health at the $124 million Tonsley campus. and Medical Sciences.

Scott William Sloan FIEAust CPEng NEW Founding Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering (CGSE), University of Newcastle Civil engineer, Monash University

loan leads the 160-strong In May, Sloan was elected SCGSE which has a total to a Fellowship of the Royal research budget of close Society of London (FRS) to $13 million pa. CGSE – a very rare honour for pioneers new scientific ap- an Australian engineer. Re- proaches to geotechnical en- cently the CGSE has been gineering design to underpin making groundbreaking Australia’s energy and trans- contributions to the cost- port infrastructure, resulting effective analysis and design in increased productivity and of transport infrastructure, sustainability of the nation’s pipelines and offshore oil major export industries. and gas facilities.

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rofessors Christoph Arns and NEW Val Pinczewski PVal Pinczewski received inter- national attention earlier this year Professor, School when the digital core analysis tech- of Petroleum nology they co-developed with ANU Engineering, University researchers sold to US company FEI of NSW, Sydney for $76 million. The buy-out was Chemical engineer, seen as a textbook case of technol- University of Newcastle ogy transfer from lab to industry, delivering financial returns and the UNSW Inventor of the Year Award NEW and the Innovation Impact Award for its co-creators. Arns was elected to the council of the Interpore Society and is chair of Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media, a division of the Ampere Society. Christoph Arns Pinczewski established a Coal Seam Gas (CSG) research program Professor, School of at UNSW and was advisor to Chief Petroleum Engineering, Scientist and Engineer Mary O’Kane University of NSW, Sydney (and fellow Top 100 Engineer) during Petroleum engineer, her review of CSG activities in NSW. University of NSW

Stuart Crozier NEW Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and IT, The University of Queensland Biomedical engineer, Queensland University of Technology

rof Crozier’s main technology co-invented and effectiveness of high- Prole facilitates the and fully developed by field MRI technology. He growth and viability of him. In 2013 UQ named has published more than research activities across him as one of its Top Five 200 journal papers and the faculty, as well as Innovators for his work to holds 20 patents in the engaging with indus- improve the functionality field of medical imaging. try, government and the wider community to significantly contribute Matt Barrie FIEAust to the faculty’s research outcomes. In addition, CEO, Freelancer.com, Sydney he is the chief technical Electrical engineer, officer of Magnetica, a University of Sydney University of Queensland start-up company that att Barrie’s Freelancer.com, designs and develops Mthe world’s leading online solutions for magnetic marketplace for freelancing and resonance imaging crowdsourcing, recently surpassed The commercial and 15 million users with over 7.7 mil- academic impact of Cro- lion projects posted in 850 areas of zier’s work has been sig- work. The company also entered nificant, with about two the payments space by acquiring thirds of all high-end, the largest online escrow company, clinical MRI systems Escrow.com, and further expanded installed worldwide after its network with the integration of 1997 containing patented local services.

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Veena Sahajwalla FIEAust Director, SMaRT, University of NSW Metallurgical engineer, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

cientia Prof Saha- scientific and engineer- As Australian Re- Sjwalla directs the ing advances in sus- search Council Laureate Centre for Sustainable tainability of materials Fellow and Georgina Materials Research and and associated processes Sweet Award recipient, Technology (SMaRT) in collaboration Sahajwalla not only leads at UNSW; delivering with industry. the development of all- new fundamental high temperature e-waste investigations for the development of high- NEW value products, but she has also implemented ‘Science 50:50’ – a wide- Nigel Lovell reaching program de- FIEAust CPEng signed to inspire women to pursue careers in Scientia Professor, Graduate science and engineering. School of Biomedical Engineering, University of NSW Electrical engineer, UNSW

Paul Ostergaard NEW ovell leads research and de- velopment teams that are de- Founder and CEO, Norwood Systems L veloping wearable technologies to Electronics engineer, detect and predict falls as well as University of Western Australia developing a retinal neuropros- thesis or so-called “bionic eye”. stergaard is respon- charges by more His primary responsibility in the sible for implement- than 70% for O latter has been in the design of ing Norwood’s overall travellers. stimulation strategies to provide strategic direction, plan- Norwood the most effective forms of vision ning and day-to-day run- Systems recently to future implantees. ning of the business. He won the 2014 In 2015 Lovell was awarded the and his team developed National iAward IEEE Engineering in Medicine and the cloud service for CORONA, as well as a Incite awards, and was Biology Society Technical Achieve- platform, CORONA, National Merit Recogni- a finalist representing ment Award for “world class contri- which reduces mobile tion award. The company Australia at the APICTA butions to research, clinical trialling phone voice roaming has won two WAiTTA 2014 Awards in Jakarta. and commercialisation of medical device technologies and wearable sensors, including visual pros- theses, telehealth systems and ambulatory fall monitors”. Keith Leslie Research scientist, CSIRO, NSW Electrical engineer, NEW University of Melbourne

eslie, along with CSIRO physicist The technology has been responsible LCathy Foley, was a joint recipient for discovering ore deposits valued at of the prestigious ATSE Clunies Ross more than $10 billion globally, $4 bil- Award in 2015, in honour of his work lion of which was located in Australia. on LANDTEM, a highly sensitive LANDTEM is also less invasive and magnetic device that detects ore bodies environmentally damaging than some with extremely weak magnetic fields. other exploration methods.

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Mark Kendall Rose Amal FIEAust Group Leader, Australian Institute for Scientia Professor, School Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland University of NSW Mechanical engineer, The University of Qld Chemical engineer, UNSW

n addition to his role at innovators at UQ. mal is the Director of Particle IAIBN, Kendall is also In the last year, he has been strong and the Aand Catalysis Research Labo- chief technology officer commenced a partner- project was on track to ratory in the School of Chemical and director of biomedi- ship with the World take the nanopatch to Engineering at UNSW and Deputy cal company Vaxxas, Health Organization, Cuba. Vaxxas has also Chair of IChemE (Australia). driving the direction of which has invested signif- taken the nanopatch into Amal was awarded the ARC Lau- its nanopatch technology. icant funding in applying clinical testing on hu- reate Fellowship (2014-2019) which He also chairs the UQ In- the nanopatch to polio mans, underpinned by a aims to engineer hybrid photo- novation Champions. In vaccination of people successful second round catalytic systems for sustainable fuel this role, he helps foster in developing nations. of fundraising worth $25 generation. She will develop next the next generation of Kendall said progress million. generation hybrid photoelectrode systems that will effectively harness solar energy to transform carbon dioxide into sustainable fuels using Y. Jay Guo a multi-scale approach. Director, Global Big Data Technologies Centre (GBDTC), University of Technology Sydney Electrical and electronics engineer, Xidian University, China

unded by UTS and systems, an innovator Fco-funded by CSIRO, with strong and sustained GBDTC serves as an industrial impact and international centre of ex- a globally recognised British universities, UTS cellence for the develop- R&D leader. and CSIRO. Since join- ment of enabling technol- In December, Guo ing UTS last year, Jay ogies for big data science. was invited as a Distin- has attracted a number Guo is an internationally guished Visiting Fellow of prominent professors established scientist with by the Royal Academy from overseas to join over 300 publications and of Engineering to set up GBDTC and secured expertise in antennas and research collaborations substantial multi-year wireless communications between a number of funding from industry.

Stan Skafidas FIEAust NEW Director, Centre for Neural Engineering (CfNE), University of Melbourne, Melbourne Electrical engineer, University of Melbourne

s CfNE Director, Skafidas fosters platform to measure molecules of inter- Amultidisciplinary teams bringing est at the bedside, reducing delays, costs together neuroscientists, cell biologists, and transport requirements for many neurologists, psychiatrists, mathemati- types of pathology testing. cians, physicists, chemists and engineers CfNE has also printed cortical to better understand brain function (brain) tissue using stem cell and and the underlying biological causes of printer technologies to form groups disorders such schizophrenia, epilepsy of cells which grow connections and and autism. are electrically active, opening up new In the past year his teams have de- avenues for understanding brain func- veloped a new point of care diagnostic tion and drug discovery.

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INDUSTRY NEW Alan Noble Director, Engineering, Google George Savvides FIEAust Australia and New Zealand Managing Director, Medibank Private, Vic Software engineer, Industrial engineer, University of NSW Stanford University, US

avvides is the longest 100 shares. The firm n his eight years at Google, Noble Sserving managing has continued to play a Ihas been responsible for the health director in Medibank’s greater role in primary and growth of the firm’s engineering history, and his leader- care through new ser- teams based in Sydney. The site has ship has overseen more vices and advocates for grown from 30 engineers to more than 90% of the firm’s quality and affordability than 500, and he has been involved profit generation. in the healthcare system. in initiatives to increase the diversity In November 2014, In January, Medibank of the workforce. Noble has also Medibank was listed on launched a program to worked to improve Australia’s capa- the ASX, becoming one make gyms more acces- bilities in STEM education through of the exchange’s top sible and affordable. government engagement, advisory and developing outreach programs.

Bob Every AO FIEAust CPEng Chair, Wesfarmers, Boral, WA Metallurgist, University of NSW

s chair of retail giant Wesfarmers of his work this year has been de- Aand building products manufac- voted to creating a smooth succession, turer Boral, Every is responsible for he said. In his time at the two some 210,000 jobs. He will be step- companies, he has been named one ping down from his positions at both of the most powerful people in Aus- groups in November, and so much tralia’s boardrooms.

Andrew Harding Chief Executive – Iron Ore, China, Japan and Korea, Rio Tinto, WA Mining engineer, University of NSW

n addition to his role with Rio Tinto, Harding is a board member of the En- Iergy and Minerals Institute at the University of Western Australia, and the Australia-Japan Business Cooperation Council. As chief executive of the firm’s $11 billion iron ore product group, he is accountable for operations and projects in Australia, Canada and India and for Rio Tinto Marine. He also has executive committee responsibility for China, Japan and Korea.

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Jimmy Wilson President, BHP Billiton Iron Ore, Perth Mechanical engineer, University of Natal, South Africa

ilson has had an extensive career role change in March 2012, Wilson has Win the mining industry and held focused on engaging employees and im- key managerial and operating roles proving productivity. His tenure has also throughout BHP Billiton, including seen reductions in external expenditure presidencies for Energy Coal and Stain- through lower demand, better rates and less Steel Materials. Since his most recent insourcing services.

Kathryn Fagg Board member, Reserve Bank of Australia, Victoria Chemical engineer University of Queensland

n addition to her IRBA position, Fagg is a board member for Boral, Incitec Pivot, Djer- riwarrh Investments and the Breast Cancer Net- work of Australia. She is also chair of the Industry and Innovation Forum for ATSE. As a member of the RBA board she participates in monthly decisions on monetary policy for Australia.

Mark Cutifani Chief Executive, Anglo American, London Mining engineer, University of Wollongong

n addition to his responsibility for a groups and delivered on its specific Imajor diversified mining company, 2014 targets, according to Cutifani. David Caspari Cutifani is also the president of the Among the targets met this year Vice President for Products, International Council for Mining and was the first ore on ship at the firm’s Solutions and ICT, Optus Metals. Despite external headwinds 26.5 Mt/a Minas-Rio iron ore project in Business, NSW affecting the industry in the last year, Brazil, and its best safety performance Electrical engineer, UNSW Anglo American has driven operational to date, with a 30% improvement in improvements across its commodity total recordable frequency rate. ince joining Optus in April S2014, Caspari’s responsibility has been to accelerate the firm’s transformation into an ICT provider in Australia, as well as to lead the development of global cloud offer- ings on behalf of SingTel. Over the past 12 months Optus Business has acquired two market leading organ- isations, and achieved double digit growth in its ICT product portfolio.

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Ralph Waters HonFIEAust CPEng

Chairman, Woolworths Mechanical engineer, RMIT

n addition to his role at Woolworths, IWaters is also a director of ports and rail operator Asciano and is chairman of Cricket World Cup 2015. Despite it being a challenging year for most businesses, Waters said being involved in delivering the most success- ful Cricket World Cup ever staged was a contrasting highlight. The event saw 1.1 million people in attendance and over 1.5 billion watching on television.

Peter Coleman MIEAust CPEng Managing Director and CEO, Woodside, Perth Civil engineer, Monash University

oleman oversees equivalent. The firm C4000 staff at Wood- also grew its global ex- side, Australia’s larg- ploration portfolio, with est publicly traded oil permits now across 11 and gas exploration countries and a range and production com- of seismic and drilling pany. In 2014, Woodside activities planned in achieved a record under- the coming months. lying profit of US$2.4 Also in 2014, Coleman billion, and record pro- was appointed Chair duction of just over 95 of the Australia-Korea Scott Charlton million barrels of oil Foundation. CEO, Transurban Electrical engineer, Texas A&M University, US

harlton has more than 25 years’ Cexperience in the infrastructure sector and is an electrical engineer. In addition to his role at toll road owner and operator Transurban, he is deputy chair of Infrastructure Partnerships Australia. Under his leadership, Transurban has major transport infrastructure projects under way in Australia’s capital cities. These include North- Connex – Sydney’s longest road tunnel – and a major upgrade of CityLink’s western section in Mel- bourne. The firm has also proposed a $5.5 billion project including a tunnel and elevated motorway to provide an alternate river crossing for Melbourne’s western suburbs.

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Robert Rio NEW Alan Cransberg Founder, Owner and Managing Chairman and Managing Director of Rio Industrial Group Director, Alcoa of Australia, Perth (RIG), Melbourne Civil engineer, University of Western Australia Industrial engineer, Swinburne Institute of Technology ransberg manages the com- IG is a group of pak and Zecca. Cpany’s global alumina refining Rmanufacturing and The group was assets, based in Australia, Brazil, logistic companies based started by Rio in Spain, the US and Suriname. As in Australia. These in- 1987 with the first year of over 100 people. president of Alcoa Refining he is clude Carlton Chemi- turnover being less than In 2015 Rio was a also accountable for Alcoa’s Global cals, Quality Packaging $50,000. RIG now turns nominee for the EY Refining Centre of Excellence and Services, Quality Logistic over more than $200 Entrepreneur of the provides oversight and management Services Australia, Man- million with a workforce Year Award. support for all Australian operations. He is the chairman of the West Coast Eagles, and is on the boards of the Black Swan State Theatre Company, Andrew Liveris AO the US Alcoa Foundation and Our Watch – aimed at preventing domes- Chair and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, US tic violence. He is also a member of Chemical engineer, University of Queensland CEO’s for Gender Equity. In the past year he has overseen ndrew Liveris is nology company focused pany’s 118 year history. the transformation of Alcoa’s refin- AChairman and on developing innovative He continues to support ing portfolio, delivering lower cost Chief Executive Officer solutions at the intersec- his alma mater as the of production in Alcoa’s global of The Dow Chemical tions of the physical, Inaugural Chair of The upstream business. Company, a global tech- materials, polymer and University of Queensland biological sciences with in America Foundation. 2014 annual sales of more Recently, Liveris received than $58 billion. an honorary doctorate of In 2014, Liveris was engineering from Michi- appointed AO for services gan State University and to international business was named an indepen- and he led Dow to earn dent member of Aus- 635 US patent grants tralia’s Growth Centres – a record in the com- Advisory Committee.

Steve Worlock Director, Project Management and Engineering, BAE Systems Australia Mechanical and aeronautical engineer, University of Bath, UK

ith functional responsibility for ment board member, Worlock has con- Wover 1500 engineers, project man- tributed to the delivery of the first of agers and technical staff, Worlock carries two Landing Helicopter Dock warships; technical and maintenance authority for selection as regional airframe sustain- the company. This means he is ultimately ment lead for the Joint Strike Fighter; accountable for the integrity and safety and diversification of the business into of all delivered goods and services. commercial aviation maintenance and As a company director and manage- the oil and gas market. NEW

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Chris Jenkins CEO, Thales Australia & NZ, Sydney Mechanical engineer, University of NSW

hales Australia & NZ under Jenkins’ stones for our customers. The Hawkei Jenkins is over- Tleadership has been investing in new lightweight protected vehicle for Army seeing a range of developments in Defence capability and has demonstrated outstanding blast world leading local developments in critical infrastructure over the past years protection in the most arduous testing sonars, armaments, ordnance security and in 2014/15 several of these local and is progressing on schedule for pro- and a wide range of other technologies innovations achieved important mile- duction in 2016. being created in Australia.

Maureen Dougherty Rob Sindel President, Boeing Australia and Managing Director, CSR, Sydney South Pacific, Sydney Mechanical engineer, Mechanical engineer, University of Queensland Pennsylvania State University, US

ougherty as presi- the United States, with Ddent is responsible more than 3000 employ- Chamber of Commerce for government affairs ees in 27 locations. and supported Boe- and coordinates all Boe- In the past year Dough- ing’s Global Corporate ing activities in Australia erty oversaw a number of Citizenship activities at and the South Pacific key milestones across the organisations including region. The company’s Boeing business in the re- the Great Barrier Reef presence in Australia is its gion. She served as chair- Foundation and the Aus- largest footprint outside person of the American tralian War Memorial.

Chris Mick Farrell

Roberts CEO, ResMed, San Diego, US SR under Sindel’s leadership has FIEAust Chemical engineer, UNSW Cgreatly improved performance in a competitive environ ment where CEO and esMed changes lives by help- access to products and services can President, Ring millions of people breathe now be achieved easily using global Cochlear, in over 100 countries world-wide. buying platforms. Many traditional Sydney Its focus is on sleep apnoea and business models are being disrupted Chemical and biomedical chronic obstructive pulmonary dis- by these digital platforms as well as engineer, UNSW ease (COPD) and other key, costly changes in demographics, which are chronic respiratory medical diseases. changing the way people live and oberts oversees 2700 staff and a Farrell sits on the ResMed board of work. Sindel sees it as his respon- company that has been a global R directors and on the board of directors sibility to identify the changes hap- leader in implantable devices for of Zimmer Holdings, a multi-billion pening in the external environment the hearing impaired for over three dollar public company that provides and then develop a business strategy decades. Roberts said Cochlear’s implantable musculoskeletal medical for the organisation. leadership position is through devices for patients globally. The management team at CSR has technological innovation, closely During the last year, ResMed developed innovative new building connected to clinical need. launched the world’s first 100% cloud- systems to address the changing In the last year, the company connected respiratory landscape of how buildings are built, released products from across its medical device solu- while at the same time restructuring portfolio, including the Nucleus 6 tion – leading the their existing business to be more System with the industry’s first truly world in patient competitive. In the past year CSR has wireless accessories, and Baha 5 Sys- engagement for been able to grow revenues by 16% tem, which has won the prestigious sleep apnoea and to over $2 billion while profitability Red Dot design award. COPD therapy. has doubled.

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POLITICS Bill Marmion FIEAust CPEng WA Minister for Finance; Mines and Petroleum, Perth Civil engineer, Mehreen Faruqi University of Member of Legislative Council, NSW Western Australia Parliament, the Greens ill Marmion is Civil engineer, University of Engineering the member for and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan B Nedlands in Western Australia, and holds aruqi is the Greens NSW NEW Fspokesperson for the environ- ministerial portfolios ment, transport, roads and ports, in finance; mines status of women, multicultural- and through a successful call for and petroleum. ism, animal welfare, drugs and papers, forced the NSW Govern- In the past year, Marmion introduced harm minimisation, young people, ment to publicly release thousands the Mining Rehabilitation Fund and con- Western Sydney and the lower Mid- of documents related to the West- tinued streamlining of mining regulation North Coast. Connex Business Case. In 2013, to encourage investment. In December, Re-elected to the NSW Legislative Faruqi received the UNSW Judy he took over as minister for Finance and Council in 2015, Faruqi developed Raper Women in Leadership Award began cross-government red tape reduction the Greens NSW 2020 Transport and was voted in Fairfax Daily strategy. Marmion has led a major WA Plan to advocate for a sustainable Life’s Top 20 Women who made trade mission to Singapore, South Korea world class public transport system a difference. and China.

PUBLIC SERVICE : TOP 100 Public service

Barry Broe FIEAust Coordinator-General, Queensland Government, Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning, Brisbane Civil engineer, University College Dublin, Ireland

During 2014, Broe made 136 statutory and the potential to create 40,000 jobs. decisions, a rate over twice as high as the The 106,000 ha Galilee Basin State he Coordinator-General is an historical average. Environmental assess- Development Area from the Basin to Tindependent statutory body with ment times have been reduced by 57%. Abbot Point was also declared, a critical wide-ranging powers to coordinate and Seven major projects were approved, milestone in opening up this resource- deliver large-scale infrastructure projects. with a capital value of almost $34 billion rich Basin.

David Stewart FIEAust Director-General, Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet, Brisbane Civil engineer, Queensland University of Technology

tewart provides strategic, tactical been at the forefront of co-ordinating Master Plan and Sadvice and insight to the Premier and Queensland’s community response after delivered on a Cabinet and is responsible for whole-of- this year’s severe weather events. As the range of projects government leadership, with more than former Secretary of Transport for NSW, including Syd- 20 agencies reporting to the role. He has Stewart oversaw the $50 billion Transport ney’s $8.3 billion North West Rail Link.

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Colin Jensen FIEAust CEO, Brisbane City Council Civil engineer, Queensland University of Technology

anaging an annual budget of $3 Recent Council achievements include Mbillion and an asset base of $21 completion of the 4.6 km Legacy Way billion, Jensen oversees the largest lo- tunnel, and the popular New Farm cal government in Australia serving a Riverwalk Replacement. The $72 population of 1.1 million people. He million Riverwalk which opened in also delivers Council’s key initiatives in September 2014 provides a structure the pursuit of its Brisbane Vision 2031. that has significant flood resilience.

Mary O’Kane HonFIEAust CPEng Jim Hallion NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer, AM FIEAust CPEng NSW Government, Sydney State Coordinator General, Engineering physics PhD, The Australian South Australia, Adelaide National University Civil engineer, ’Kane provides the NSW Government high University of Adelaide Oquality advice on contentious policy matters with major science and engineering aspects. She completed her high profile review of coal seam gas activities in NSW in September last year. Her final report contained 16 recommendations to government. In 2014, O’Kane was awarded the Pearcey Medal – a prestigious annual award recognising a distinguished lifetime achievement and contribution to the development and growth of the ICT professions, research and industry in Australia.

Colin Thorne AO GM Land and Maritime, Defence Materiel Organisation, Canberra Electronics engineer, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology allion’s role is to drive invest- horne leads a group of about 2500 Hment, cut red tape and create Tmilitary and Australian Public jobs for private projects over $3 mil- Servants engineers, project managers, lion for commercial and mixed use sustainment managers, logisticians and development and multiple projects procurement specialists responsible for that exceed $3 million. an acquisition and sustainment pro- In the past year, Hallion was gram of about $4 billion this year. His conferred AM for significant service wide-ranging program includes ships, to public administration in SA, par- vehicles, weapons, munitions, sol- ticularly to transport infrastructure, dier systems, uniforms, combat ra- NEW energy and agriculture. He has facili- tions and pharmaceuticals. He is tated private sector development for also responsible for asset manage- over 230 projects of economic sig- ment policy and professionalisation livery of the Navy’s largest ever ship, nificance and led major reforms on in Defence. the HMAS Canberra Landing Heli- intergovernmental relations in areas Milestones this year include de- copter Dock. of education, health and housing.

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Neil Scales FIEAust CPEng Director-General, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, Brisbane Control engineer, Sunderland Polytechnic (now University of Sunderland), UK

cales is responsible for more than Range Crossing and the Gateway Up- S7000 Department of Transport and grade North, and helping to deliver the Main Roads (TMR) staff across the state. Moreton Bay Rail Link. TMR has also This year, TMR will undertake $4.5 bil- undertaken major reconstruction across lion of works. The department is currently the network due to cyclones Maria and planning and implementing multiple large Oswald, restoring road, rail, port and projects such as the Toowoomba 2nd regional airport connections.

Alex Zelinsky HonFIEAust Shireane Chief Defence Scientist, Defence Science and McKinnie Technology Organisation (DSTO), Canberra FIEAust EngExec Electrical engineer, University of Wollongong GM Joint, Systems and elinsky leads the Royal Australian Air Air, Defence Materiel ZDSTO with 2200 Force of Joint Direct Organisation, Canberra staff and an annual bud- Attack Munitions that Electrical engineer, UNSW get of $426 million. The include DSTO-designed key challenge for DSTO wing kits for extending cKinnie oversees a pro- remains the implementa- their range and Mgramme of acquisition and tion of its Strategic Plan. precision; and delivery sustainment of military systems ex- Three years into a five to the Afghan National explosive devices. ceeding $6 billion this financial year. year plan, Zelinsky seeks Security and Defence Zelinsky has been Her recent priorities have includ- to build an agile organisa- Forces of low cost, selected to receive the ed governing once-in-a-generation tion that provides the best robust and lightweight 2015 M A Sargent Medal replacements of a range of aircraft science and technology force protection systems for his contributions and helicopter types and electronic for the ADF. developed by DSTO and and leadership in systems. She is a champion for Significant highlights produced by Australian electrical engineering engineering in Defence, actively include the recent industry to address the and computer science mentors women in executive and commissioning by the threat of improvised for Australia. engineering roles and is very focused on materiel safety.

Geoff Brown AO Chief of Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force, Canberra Mechanical engineer, Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (now University of Southern Queensland)

rown oversees al- eration capabilities into Bmost 19,000 per- service, Plan Jericho is manent, reserve and Brown’s plan to trans- civilian employees. He form the RAAF into a is responsible for over fighting force for the $4.4 billion per year to information age. fund workforce costs, Plan Jericho will en- minor capital and oper- sure the RAAF capitalis- ating expenses. es on the technologically As the Royal Austra- advanced systems that lian Air Force (RAAF) are being introduced in transitions fifth gen- the next few years.

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Nino Ficca FIEAust Managing Director, AusNet Services (formerly SP AusNet), Vic Electrical engineer, Deakin University

s Managing Director, Ficca is Aresponsible for AusNet Services’ 2600 employees which manage $12 billion of electricity and gas assets. AusNet Services has launched Aus- tralia’s largest network battery trial and received engineering awards for two leading safety and reliability technologies developed in-house. Engineering Advisory Board and Ficca has also taken a new role as was awarded the Deakin University chairman of Deakin University Alumni of the Year Award 2014.

Peter Dennis FIEAust CEO, Seqwater, Queensland Chemical engineer, University of Newcastle

ennis leads a 600 strong workforce Din managing more than $10 bil- lion of water supply assets in South Sue Murphy East Queensland (SEQ), in addition FIEAust CPEng to ensuring the drinking water supply for more than three million people. CEO, Water Corporation In the past year, he has led the of Western Australia, WA Seqwater team in delivering a range Civil engineer, University of strategic initiatives, including the of Western Australia development of SEQ’s 30 year water water, future proofing of the Mount security program, investment in re- Crosby Water Treatment Plant, and a ater Corporation is the silient catchments to improve source major dam safety review. Wprincipal supplier of water, wastewater, drainage and bulk ir- rigation services across an area of 2.6 million square kilometres in WA. Vince Graham Murphy said the past year had been one of transitioning from a CEO, Networks NSW (Ausgrid, Essential period of huge capital growth to a Energy, Endeavour Energy), NSW renewed focus on maintaining and Civil engineer, University of Sydney operating existing assets. “We have been on a fast track to s CEO of three utilities, Graham is responsible climate independent water sources, Afor the supply of electricity to 3.3 million NSW with the runoff into Perth’s dams customers, as well as the safety of 11,000 employees. now less than one sixth of the his- The first three years of the NSW government’s torical average,” she said. “We have Electricity Reform Program have seen a reduction invested billions of dollars in seawa- of $3 billion and more than 3000 jobs in capital and ter desalination, demand manage- operating programs, and the continuing control of ment initiatives and, most recently, electricity price increases throughout NSW to within groundwater replenishment.” consumer price index rates.

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Bill Morrow NEW Sir David Higgins CEO, NBN, NSW Executive Chairman, HS2, UK Electrical Engineer, Civil engineer, Condie College University of Sydney

orrow has been iggins has been executive MCEO of nbn, the Hchairman of the UK’s $90 bil- company established lion High Speed Two (HS2) project to deliver the National since March 2014. In the last 12 Broadband Network months, the UK government has (NBN), since April confirmed construction on the line 2014. He is recognised will begin in 2017. The HS2 phase globally for his experi- one Bill remains with parliament, ence in leading complex and it is hoped the Bill will receive turnarounds and capi- In the last year, he try and the community. Royal Assent by the end of 2016, tal intensive start-ups instigated significant or- The NBN is expected to providing authority for the construc- across the technology ganisational and cultural bring broadband Inter- tion of the project. and telecommunica- change at nbn, increasing net to 8 million homes tions sectors. engagement with indus- by 2020.

Grant King Managing Director, Origin Energy, Sydney Civil engineer, University of New South Wales

ing has headed Origin Energy since 2000, and Kunder his leadership the firm has grown to be- come Australia’s leading integrated energy company, Merryn York FIEAust with the country’s largest energy customer base and portfolio of power generation assets. Chief Executive, Powerlink Queensland, Qld Over the past year, according to King, Origin’s operational performance and quality of service in its Electrical engineer, The energy markets businesses has improved, following a University of Queensland period of significant investment in new technology; ork is accountable for the deliv- the Australia Pacific LNG project, a major Origin ery of electricity transmission investment, has also passed several milestones recently. Y services to Queensland, and oversees Powerlink’s $6.4 billion transmission grid and more than 1000 employees. Kevin Young FIEAust CPEng In the last year she has continued to guide Powerlink through a period Managing Director, Sydney Water, NSW of immense change in the way elec- Civil engineer, University of Newcastle tricity is delivered and consumed. Projects to extend the Powerlink oung leads Austra- also introduced a new network into the North West Surat Ylia’s largest water corporate strategy for Basin are also nearing completion. utility, with 2400 employ- the utility. ees, 4.75 million custom- He advises young en- ers and total revenue for gineers to put people 2013-14 of $2.6 billion. before pipes. “For the In the past year, he early part of my career has encouraged a new the focus was on assets, it constructive approach was all about the pipes we gevity in a business with- of working across the built and maintained,” he out a constructive people organisation and with said. “But now, you can’t culture and an engaged, external partners, and achieve success and lon- diverse workforce.”

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Marita Cheng NEW Stuart Khan Founder, Robogals Global, Vic MIEAust Mechatronics engineer, Associate professor, School University of Melbourne of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of New obogals Global has taught more South Wales Rthan 30,000 girls in seven coun- Civil and environmental tries and 31 chapters about robotics. engineer, University of New Cheng is also the founder and CEO of also appeared on a special science South Wales 2Mar Robotics, a startup developing a episode of Q&A, alongside Chief Sci- robot arm to aid people with limited entist Ian Chubb and Nobel laureates n addition to his teaching respon- upper mobility. Brian Schmidt and Peter Doherty. She Isibilities, Khan has been involved In the past year she was awarded also launched a telepresence robot, in government and community en- the 2014 Global Engineering Deans Teleroo, at the Sydney Opera House gagement on topics relating to water Council Diversity Award. Cheng for TEDxSydney. quality and treatment. In particular, he has promoted the importance of recycling as a future water supply strategy, and was the primary author NEW Zhiguo Yuan of a major report on the subject for Director, Advanced Water the Academy of Technological Sci- Management Centre, The ences & Engineering. He also made University of Queensland contributions to the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer’s coal seam gas Aeronautical engineer, review and additions to the Australian Beijing University of Aeronautics Drinking Water Guidelines. Khan and Astronautics, China has been appointed to the World he Advanced Water Management partnership with the Australian Health Organization Water Qual- TCentre is a world-renowned insti- water industry delivered hundreds ity and Health Technical Advisory tution in urban water management. of millions of dollars in savings and Group, and was also appointed the Yuan is also the leader of the Future won the 2014 B/HEERT Outstanding Hans Fischer Fellow to the Technical Technologies Program of the $117 Excellence in Collaboration Award, University of Munich. million Cooperative Research Centre and the 2014 IWA Global Project for Water Sensitive Cities. Innovation Award. Yuan was also The sewer corrosion and odour selected for the 2015 ATSE Clunies research project that Yuan led in Ross Award.

Alistair Michener NEW Founder and CEO, Drawboard, Vic Chemical engineer, Monash University

ichener came up with the idea for an app allowing engi- Mneers to mark up and annotate plans on a tablet device while he was working at WorleyParsons. Since he successfully courted Microsoft, Drawboard’s flagship application is now preinstalled on millions of Microsoft Surface devices and has grossed more than any other app in the past year. Engineering firms around the world, including Rolls Royce, PCL and FM Global are now using Drawboard PDF. The company will soon be releasing an enterprise version for the engineering and con- struction industries, which will provide real time, collaborative PDF markup and document management. NEW

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Kathy Hirschfeld HonFIEAust Director, InterOil Corporation, Transfield Services, ASC, Toxfree Solutions, Qld Chemical engineer, The University of Queensland

irschfeld’s engineering and busi- Hirschfeld chaired the Chemeca Hness experience feed her passion 2013 conference and was also a keynote to ensure operational risk management speaker at IChemE Hazards Australasia is not overlooked. In addition to her 2015 conference. Last year she visited roles in ASX and NYSE listed companies Papua New Guinea (PNG) for the first Australian funds are used to improve in the waste, services and oil and gas time, to see InterOil’s exploration opera- the markets and provide safe trans- industries, she is also a board member tions at Elk-Antelope and other sites. port for women. She became the 9th of the UN Women Australian National She also met with PNG’s UN Women woman to be recognised as an Committee and a senator of UQ. program office, to understand how Honorary Fellow of EA in 2014.

NEW Sandra Mau CEO, TrademarkVision, Qld Robotics engineer, University of Toronto, Canada

rademarkVision is a startup working on “visual brand protection”, and was Tlisted on AntHill’s Smart 100 Companies 2015 list. The company has devel- oped the world’s first visual search engine for trademarks and logos, based on image recognition technology. Mau was the founding chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Queensland Women in Engineering group. She was a speaker at the Committee for Economic Development Australia’s Women in Leadership Forum, and has been listed as one of Australia’s top 50 female programmers by Pollenizer.

LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT Engineering Practice Advisory Committee meeting – March 2015

ngineers Australia’s Engineering The initial part of this year’s meeting main points of the discussion were Practice Advisory Committee was to seek feedback to the following around delivery mechanisms, the need E(EPAC) met in Canberra late three questions: for a CPD financial model, alternative March. The EPAC meeting is attended • What’s working well? platforms for CPD delivery, the need by all College, Technical Society and • What could be improved? for CPD to address the different Special Interest Group Chairs, the • What’s not yet quite right and how stages of careers and members and National President, the Chief Executive might we fix it? many more. Officer and is chaired by the National The feedback received centred around The feedback provided was Deputy President. The meeting is encouraging STEM, simplifying complex- invaluable and Chairs will shortly be attended by more than 50 volunteers ity, better communication (both positive asked to identify the key areas they and staff. and negative) and the strong support would like progressed throughout EPAC is an opportunity for Chairs receive from staff. 2015. One of the major outcomes of Engineers Australia’s key office bearers Continuing Professional this activity will be the development to meet in a single forum to exchange Development (CPD) – Quality over of a national CPD framework that will information and consider matters Quantity - was the major focus of the be consulted and then implemented relating to the learned society function. second part of the meeting and the across the organisation.

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by Jason Lilienstein

he Pyrmont Bridge is one of the world’s oldest of an asset. With a proven ROI in the design and electrically operated swingspan bridges, traversing construction phase, it has revolutionised the way that TDarling Harbour in Sydney. The heritage listed buildings and other assets are constructed, aptly summed ironbark and steel bridge was opened in 1902 and has up by the old adage “measure twice, cut once”. been a major Sydney landmark ever since, with more than While BIM is increasingly being used during the design five million pedestrians crossing it each year. and construction phases of the asset lifecycle, the adoption Under the management of the Sydney Harbour of BIM in the operational or facilities management (FM) Foreshore Authority (SHFA), the more than 7500 phase is largely still in its infancy. This is largely due to structural components that make up the Pyrmont Bridge software solutions struggling to deliver on the promised are inspected and assessed annually by NSW Road and benefits that BIM can bring in FM. This is surprising Maritime Services (RMS) bridge inspectors. considering that 70-85% of total lifecycle costs of an asset In a bid to more effectively and efficiently manage are incurred post-handover. the inspection, maintenance and remedial work of these A new paradigm in 3D modelling components, SHFA sought a 3D based BIM solution to One of the issues confronting asset owners wishing to supercede manual, paper based processes. push BIM into FM is the lack of suitable 3D models SHFA selected Zuuse, an Australian-owned 3D BIM emanating from the construction phase of new builds or of technology provider, as well as engaging engineering any models at all relating to the existing built environment. firm GHD to create the 3D model and John Mitchell, an It is important to note the following: experienced BIM advisor, to make the plan a reality. • It is unnecessary to have a fully detailed, as-built BIM in facility and asset management (LOD500) 3D model. The time and expense to The concept of Building Information Modelling is not new. commission such a model cannot be justified. For BIM is a 3D model based concept that provides a shared instance, the Zuuse solution provides a pathway into knowledge resource linked to a visual 3D representation 3D by breaking down the level of detail required into

BIM model of the Pyrmont Bridge. PHOTOS: SHFA

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manageable, cost effective stages, combined with a fully functional solution that operates equally with a basic model through to a fully modelled asset or facility. • The 3D model is not the appropriate place to store all required information (documents or data). 3D modelling applications should be used for exactly that – designing 3D models. The premise in the design and construction world that “more is better”, which equates to everything being loaded into the model, simply does not apply in FM. Only certain elements of structural and geometric information need be in the model with the balance of operational information belonging in a database that is then linked to the 3D model. • Naming conventions and labelling need to be applied consistently throughout the model. These properties are used to search for asset objects and systems in day to day FM scenarios. Any inconsistencies are problematic. This requires designers to recognise that their 3D models are being used for an ultimate purpose that goes well beyond traditional design or construction uses. • Finally, labelling and naming conventions need to reflect operational FM nomenclature of the asset owner. This involves the design team understanding how the FM team Inspector capturing asset data using a moble app.

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will be using the 3D model longer term. They need to involve FM personnel much earlier than has traditionally occurred, get their input and buy-in and provide a model that is suitable for their operational purposes. Everyday asset management Asset management and facility management often relies on paper based, manual processes, with work being performed in an ad hoc and non-systemised manner, driving reactive, rather than proactive behaviour. There is often no connection between information gathered during Data from the mobile app is synced to a database linked to the 3D model. design and construction and information used in managing assets – this is often lost or “You get a more truthful account of the condition of the discarded. asset and it prioritises the service attention it needs.” In the context of the Pyrmont Bridge, mobility in Ongoing benefits the field, 3D visualisation, a single point of truth for Augmenting the 2015 inspection data, the preceding data storage, digital work order processing and intuitive years’ inspections have also been loaded into Zuuse. SHFA reporting were critical components for the solution sought. can now visualise the results of those inspections year Using Zuuse Capture, a mobile inspection app on iPads, by year, tracking areas where corrosion has occurred at configured to the requirements specified by SHFA and an accelerated rate directly against the 3D model. They RMS guidelines, the RMS inspectors were able to inspect can also observe the consequences of identified issues, and capture details of all bridge elements digitally, with for instance the downstream impact of deck leaks on the data synced to a database linked to the 3D model. the substructure beneath and how quickly that impact This provided immediate efficiencies around data capture, manifests. storage and retrieval, allowing the SHFA team to visualise, The efficient prioritisation and packaging of remedial analyse and report on the results immediately, as well as work, the ability to calculate the lineal meterage of rotten seamlessly roll key data into their maintenance and capital timber or the total surface area needing repainting are programs. further benefits that can be leveraged through the 3D Money has been saved and efficiencies model. SHFA will also track and control around time gained. the preventative and reactive maintenance “The ability to collect inspection of the mechanical and electrical systems of data and photos digitally on iPads, the bridge, exposing maintenance history automatically link that data back to the and documentation to contractors on site, 3D model and instantaneously report using mobile devices. was of the utmost importance,” Wayne More information on this project can Sahlman, senior facilities supervisor at IT’S THE WAY be found at . SHFA said. FORWARD, “3D BIM software is the future of facilities management; it’s where it’s all ESPECIALLY ON THE Jason Lilienstein is the CEO of Zuuse. going. We like to think that we’re ahead of BIG STRUCTURES the game.” AND THOSE THAT RMS building inspector Steve Everett agreed. ARE HERITAGE “It’s the way forward, especially on the LISTED, WHICH ARE big structures and those that are heritage PRETTY COMPLEX. listed, which are pretty complex,” he said.

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New process for greener steel

SIRO has developed a new technology for they’re travelling through the air and are collected in a harvesting the waste resulting from steel torus that surrounds the disc. Cproduction, and the process is being trialled for “The really smart bit of the technology is the disc. commercialisation in China. That involved a lot of computer modelling and design to The process is known as dry slag granulation, and come up with a disc that can produce consistent granules reduces water use and greenhouse gas emissions in the reliably. Other people that have worked on this technology processing of blast furnace waste into material for cement. have struggled with that part of the process.” Steelmaking is one of the world’s largest industries, The droplets are quenched and dried with air, according to CSIRO, and over 300 million tonnes of blast resulting in granulated slag ideal for cement manufacture. furnace slag is produced every year as a byproduct of steel. The heated air is extracted and can be used for onsite China produces 60% of the world’s iron waste. drying, preheating or steam generation, according to CSIRO’s group leader for sustainable process CSIRO. engineering, Mark Cooksey, said one current method of The process is the focus of an agreement between disposing of the waste was to dump it on the ground. CSIRO and the Beijing MCC Equipment Research “It’s not hazardous, but that means you waste a large and Design Corporation (MCCE) to demonstrate the amount of material that could be used for another use, technology at an industrial scale in China. The agreement and you lose all the heat, a gigajoule of heat for every is the culmination of more than a decade of development tonne of slag,” Cooksey said. by CSIRO and industry partners including Arrium and The other method of dealing with slag is to granulate it BlueScope. using water, which produces a material that can be used in CSIRO’s director of the Mineral Resources Flagship, cement manufacture. Jonathan Law, said the benefits each year from full “The trouble is you use 1000 L of water for every tonne commercialisation and adoption of the technology are on of slag so that’s a large environmental cost,” Cooksey said. the order of 60 billion litres of water, 800 PJ of heat energy CSIRO’s dry slag granulation, on the other hand, and 60 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. involves pouringouring molten slag onto a disc “ThoseThose savings are equivalenequivalent spinning att highhigh speed.speed. ttoo 14% ooff AustraAustralia’slia’s energyene “It atomisesmises thethe moltenmolten use and about 1010%% of slag into smallmall our ggreenhousereenhous gas granules,” CCookseyooksey emissions eeach explained. ““TheyThey yyear,”ear,” LawLa said. solidify as

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Controversial projects off er safety lessons

rocess safety issues were a major factor in the safety issues related to its waste gas and water discharges. world’s two most controversial projects last year, At the end of August, the Zhongrong chairman, general Paccording to a new report. manager, and production manager were arrested, and 15 Number one on RepRisk’s Most Controversial Projects Kunshan city officials are also facing prosecution. The list was the Zhongrong Metal Production Company’s NGO China Labor Watch argued that General Motors factory in Kunshan, China, which suffered a dust explosion and its subsidiary General Motors China were also partly in August that killed 146 workers and injured 114 others. responsible, because the factory was their second-tier Grupo Mexico’s Buenavista del Cobre mine in Mexico supplier. came in second, which RepRisk attributed to a major spill Around the same time, 40,000 m3 of sulphuric acid of sulphuric acid into the Sonara and Bacanuchi rivers, were spilled into Mexican rivers as a result of a defective also in August. pipe seal at the Buenavista del Cobre mine. According Australia’s Abbot Point Port Expansion made equal to RepRisk, the spill deprived 20,000 people of water, third on the list, with RepRisk stating ecosystem and destroyed crops and cattle, and contaminated wells and community impact, waste and pollution were issues linked soil. to the project. Grupo Mexico originally stated the accident had been The report identified the 10 projects most exposed to caused by an “unusual amount of rain”, a claim that environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in 2014. was rejected by Mexico’s Ministry of the Environment. The firm screened data from a range of public sources Profepa, the country’s environmental protection agency, in order to quantify ESG risks and express them using a filed charges against Buenavista del Cobre SA for violating Reputational Risk Index (RRI). environmental laws and for possible negligence in the The Zhongrong factory saw its RRI peak at 83 out of handling of hazardous substances. a possible 100 after the explosion, which was caused by Toxic spills also led to controversy around the Mount the spontaneous combustion of aluminium dust that had Polley mine in Canada and the Dan River Steam Station in accumulated on the premises. the US, which were listed at sixth and eighth respectively. Chinese authorities accused the company of failing to Trish Kerin, director of the IChemE Safety Centre, told prevent the build-up of dust. RepRisk stated there had The Chemical Engineer the events could not be considered been another dust-related fire at the site two months “black swans”. before the blast, and the company repeatedly ignored “This means each of them was absolutely preventable, warnings from local authorities about the risks associated had the principles of good process safety engineering been with metal dust. applied,” she said. “There are clear lessons for all of us The firm was also criticised for environmental and working in engineering fields.”

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Milking it for all it’s worth

ngineers at Aurecon in New Zealand have designed had been achieving a product yield of 64% to 65% when a process that significantly increases yields of lactose crystallising lactose from whey but with the process Eas it is being purified from whey, a by-product of solution we have developed, that yield has now increased cheese and casein manufacture. to at least 80%, which is a marked increase,” Stephenson Lactose is one of the main components of milk and is a said. key ingredient in food and pharmaceutical products such Aurecon revealed that CrystaLac has already won three as milk powders, infant formula, confectionary, tablets and engineering awards, two in NZ and one in the UK. The powder inhalers for asthmatic sufferers. Aurecon’s brief technology is now being installed in the Netherlands, was to increase plant capacity and resolve performance Germany and Oregon in the USA in conjunction with US deficiencies associated with the traditional manufacture of company RELCO, which manufactures lactose plants. lactose from whey. The three plants will have the capacity to manufacture Traditionally, lactose is manufactured by concentrating over 120,000 t of lactose a year, which is more than whey in an evaporator and then cooling the concentrate the total quantity of lactose produced annually in New to form lactose crystals in a crystalliser. The lactose Zealand. However, the world’s production of lactose is over crystals are then separated from the crystalliser slurry and one million tonnes per year, so Aurecon sees plenty of dried. The new technology, known as CrystaLac, further scope to expand the technology to existing plants. increases the concentration of the whey, while at the same “We have several other project possibilities in the time crystallising the lactose. The partially crystallised pipeline. These are multi-million dollar projects that take lactose is then cooled in a crystalliser, separated and approximately 18 months to execute from the start of the dried like the traditional process, and more lactose crystal design to customer takeover and operation,” Stephenson product is recovered. said. Devised by Aurecon engineers for Fonterra in New While the design work, drawings, equipment Zealand, the world’s largest exporter of dairy products, specification and the writing of the plant control software the technology was first installed at the Hautapu dairy for the technology was carried out in Wellington for factory in Cambridge and then at Clandeboye in South the overseas plants, according to Stephenson, Aurecon Canterbury, according to Aurecon project director Paul engineers are also very hands-on during the build and Stephenson. commissioning phases of each project. “Prior to installing the new technology, they [Fonterra]

Cows on a farm near the Fonterra Clandeboye facility (background). PHOTO: FONTERRA

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by Terence Jeyaretnam

ilton Friedman, an economist, famously said in the 70s: “… a corporate executive is an employee Mof the owners of the business. He [sic] has direct responsibility to his [sic] employers. That responsibility is to conduct the business in accordance with their desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of the society …” The world has changed significantly in 40 years. “Companies able to tackle issues such as poverty, climate change and population shifts are those most likely to succeed in the future,” said eight global business leaders working as a World Business Council for Sustainable Development group called Tomorrow’s Leaders. Companies represented include BP, TNT and Swiss Re. “We should not see such signals as someone else’s problem, but as risks for our businesses, which we have a role in addressing, along with governments and international bodies,” the group said. “Dealing with such issues makes business sense. It is directly in our interest to avoid operating on a polluted planet in which billions are too poor to afford the products we create …” Progressive business must continue to look to create value, but do so recognising emerging risks and future market segments. Beyond this, social responsibility for Milton Friedman business will simply be to adhere to the basic rules of society. In the case of climate change, tomorrow’s corporation for increasing numbers of people at prices that they can does not need to be carbon neutral (unless it is to enhance afford. In other words, creating value by solving a social its reputation and, as a result, sell more). It simply needs to need, which indeed was always the fundamental basis for be mindful of the technological advances that will shift the trade and business. energy mix, sometimes radically, in a carbon constrained Finally, tomorrow’s corporation must partner with world, and therefore invest wisely in its energy budget. It government and civil society in tackling these future also needs to be mindful of the risks of climate change, risks and markets as neither of these actors are capable including such risks as extreme weather, water availability of dealing with these enormous challenges on their own and sea level rise on its operations. Companies should – nor are they incentivised as much as business is. Such therefore advocate for governments to manage these collaboration will provide leverage, the licence to operate risks on behalf of its unit holders. This is an example of and drive innovation. managing an emerging risk to create future value. Taking a separate example, such as poverty alleviation, Terence Jeyaretnam is a Partner, Climate Change and tomorrow’s business needs to recognise this as a business Sustainability at EY, based in Melbourne opportunity at the bottom of the pyramid – and therefore [email protected] a future market segment. Those businesses that find a way The views expressed in this article are the views of the author, not to alleviate poverty through new products and services EY. This article provides general information, does not constitute will create value. The Tomorrow’s Leaders group started advice and should not be relied on as such. Professional advice should be sought prior to any action being taken in reliance on any of the from the basis that the fundamental purpose of business information. Liability limited by a scheme approved is to provide continually improving goods and services under Professional Standards Legislation.

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Charles Bubb 1928–2015

n 17 May, one of Australia’s factor in their implementation despite most eminent civil engineers, political lobbying from the building OCharles Thomas James Bubb industry. FIEAust, passed away. Bubb was born Bubb’s involvement with earthquake and educated in Perth and graduated and wind engineering design resulted with a civil engineering degree from the in him playing a leading role in the University of Western Australia in 1950. initial development of the structural Thereafter, he joined the construction design loading codes that are used side of the then Commonwealth today. He recognised the superiority of Department of Works and Housing, limit state design over working stress and worked with the department in its design, which underpinned almost all various guises until his retirement in structural design at the time. With the 1987. At that time, he was the director of support of Bubb and the department, engineering, the top engineering position Australia led the way internationally in in the Commonwealth public service. changing its design codes to Two significant events occurred Charles Bubb with his wife Viki. this approach. during Bubb’s career that had a seminal influence on his contributions to professional engineering in Australia: the 1968 Meckering earthquake and Cyclone DIARY Tracy in 1974. In the early 1960s, earthquakes were not thought to be CONFERENCES a significant problem in Australia. The M6.8 Meckering earthquake, which destroyed the town of Meckering in Sustainable Engineering Society Conference WA and caused damage as far away as Perth, changed that The Sustainable Engineering Society (SENG) is holding its next national view for a number of structural engineers. Bubb became conference on 9-10 September at the Adelaide Convention Centre. The an active member of the Australian National Committee conference theme, ‘Dynamic Eco-librium’, highlights the importance of for Earthquake Engineering, which was formed in 1971. maintaining healthy, balanced dynamic activity in both the economy He led the development of Australia’s first earthquake and ecosystem. Presentations will cover topics ranging from energy, code, AS2121–1979, and in his retirement played a leading resources and waste to infrastructure and leadership. role in the establishment of the Australian Earthquake For more information go to . Engineering Society, of which he was the inaugural Australian Engineering Heritage Conference President, from 1990 to 1995. The 18th Australian Engineering Heritage Conference will be held in Bubb was also aware of the risk from tropical cyclones Newcastle from 7-9 December, hosted and organised by the Newcastle to northern Australia, and within the department he had Division of EA and Engineering Heritage Australia. Early technology been a strong advocate for giving attention to them. After transfer between Britain and Australia will be a primary theme. A pre- Cyclone Tracy, he quickly recognised that an opportunity conference tour will start on 3 December at Sydney’s Central Station. had arisen to change thinking in relation to wind design. The tour ends in Newcastle in time for the conference reception. His strong support of the investigation into the damage to Registration for the conference and the tour opens on 1 May. Darwin, and particularly the subsequent recommendations For more information visit . for changes to building and design practices, was a major

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