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Cathy Band, CEO Brooks Australia.

The Future of Fire Safety: Using AI to Detect and Forecast Fire Hazards

As fire safety technology continues to evolve, new solutions are redefining security across both domestic and industrial settings.
26/02/2025/by ANCR
Brian Innes (Director, Partners in Performance)

Leading Australia’s Net Zero Future: How the Construction Industry Can Drive Sustainability

The construction industry delivers projects that will last well into the next century and should lead the way in net zero design and delivery.
22/10/2024/by ANCR
Emma Wallace, Services Manager (Assistant)

This Girl Built That was written to create a spark

‘This Girl Built That’ is a children’s story book aimed at exposing and inspiring primary school aged children (particularly girls) to the breadth of job opportunities available in the construction industry.
15/10/2024/by ANCR
Andrew Tucker, Senior Product Manager, Trimble

Wireless Infrastructure Presents a Powerful Opportunity for ANZ Contractors

Wireless infrastructure presents a powerful opportunity for ANZ contractors, offering enhanced connectivity, scalability, cost savings and remote monitoring.
08/10/2024/by ANCR
Dr. Neda Kiani Mavi (Lecturer in Project Management, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University)

Revolutionising Construction: The Role of Machine Learning in Project Success

Machine learning is being used to evaluate the feasibility of construction projects with remarkable accuracy.
01/10/2024/by ANCR
Tim Phillips, (Managing & Creative Director, Tilt Industrial Design)

The transformative power of public art in urban development

Public art has the power to transform the built environment. Expressing culture and identity, it also improves liveability, creating destinations in urban landscapes that engage and inspire.
24/09/2024/by ANCR
Jonathan Cartledge, Chief Executive Officer, Consult Australia

Restoring confidence and continuity in Australia’s infrastructure sector

The confidence of businesses designing and delivering Australia’s infrastructure depends on our ability to see what’s on the horizon.
But three quarters of the respondents to Consult Australia’s 2024 membership survey are operating in a higher risk environment that is harder to predict than just 12 months ago.
30/07/2024/by ANCR

Engineered Stone Ban in Queensland: Builders Seek Clarity Amidst Economic Challenges

30/05/2024/by ANCR

Future-Proofing Your Workforce with Institutional Memory

To compete and comply with rapidly changing standards, it’s crucial to facilitate intergenerational knowledge transfer, and train new talent at speed, while minimising risks and raising the bar on accurate project delivery.
03/04/2024/by ANCR
Portrait of Adrian Dwyer, Chief Executive, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, in a grey suit.

Infrastructure Partnerships Australia Welcomes Infrastructure Victoria’s Advice on Decarbonisation

Industry welcomes Infrastructure Victoria’s advice as a significant milestone towards accounting for, and reducing, greenhouse gas emissions in infrastructure delivery.
29/02/2024/by ANCR
Andrew Tucker, Senior Product Manager, Trimble

Benefits of Construction Cloud Technology

Andrew Tucker, the product manager APAC at Trimble Viewpoint, highlights the historical hesitancy of the Australian construction industry towards technology adoption.
19/02/2024/by ANCR

A holistic approach to building design – why building product manufacturers should deeply consider environment and context

Expert advice for Australian building product manufacturers. Decades of design insight for practical, desirable, enduring products.
05/12/2023/by ANCR
Leon Ward (Digital Construction Specialist, Australia + New Zealand, PlanRadar)

The digital outlook for 2024: Navigating construction’s tech landscape

PlanRadar’s recent global survey shows that while over 70% of construction firms globally are grappling with the challenges of digitalisation.
18/11/2023/by ANCR

Embracing Sustainable Construction: Rethinking and Relifing Our Cities for a Greener Future

At FK, our experiences have taught us that understanding existing conditions and carefully analysing a building's suitability for adaptive reuse are critical starting points.
02/11/2023/by ANCR

The Digital Revolution: Why Paper-Based Safety and Quality Management No Longer Suffice.

02/11/2023/by ANCR

Staying Ahead of the Curve with Digitised Institutional Memory

With the high rate of talent turnover, growth in infrastructure demand, changing standards to comply to, and disruptions in the supply chain, construction companies today have to compete, innovate and deliver high quality projects under extreme pressure.
02/11/2023/by ANCR

Setting a New Industry Benchmark: New Practice Standard for Professional Engineers

The significance of ‘fit-for-purpose’ designs cannot be overstated. Designs that don't meet this criterion pose substantial risks to build integrity and often lead to poor outcomes.
02/11/2023/by ANCR

Empowering Women in Sports and Construction: BMD’s Athlete Employment Program

Gender diversity not only enhances creativity and problem-solving skills but also fosters innovation, which is imperative for addressing our industry's major challenges.
25/10/2023/by ANCR

Shining a Light on Silica Dust: Increasing Awareness and Preventing Occupational Hazards

Exposure to crystalline silica (silica) dust has long been a known cause of lung disease and continues to present risks in various Australian industries and workplaces.
07/09/2023/by ANCR

Federal Housing Legislation Needs Amendments

The Albanese Government has made more, positive announcements to reform the housing sector in one year than the previous Government made in 10 years.
21/08/2023/by ANCR

Planning for Smart Cities

The Commission is collaborating with communities and all levels of government to drive equitable digital access across our multi-city region to ensure that everyone benefits from smart cities.
14/08/2023/by ANCR

The Benefits of Early Engagement

By bringing early engagement to the table, organisations become trusted advisors for clients and governments for the benefit of future projects.
08/08/2023/by ANCR

Why Gender Diversity in Construction Benefits Everyone

Increasing the gender diversity in an organisation can result in some key company wide benefits. Diverse workers bring new and different perspectives and can lead to better quality products and services, improved customer experiences, greater profits, and happier workplaces.
31/07/2023/by ANCR

Infrastructure and Infrastructure Asset Management are Critical to the Lives of our Communities

Asset maintenance and renewal is as, or arguably more, important than building greenfields infrastructure and choosing that path can be a way of addressing the issue of intergenerational inequity.
20/07/2023/by ANCR

Why Today’s Industry Should Prioritise Quality

There’s an old process playing a new role helping subcontractors to address getting paid consistently: Quality Assurance (QA).
18/07/2023/by ANCR

Infrastructure Sector has a Big Role to Play in Reducing Emissions

Infrastructure Victoria, the state’s independent infrastructure advisory body, has been asked to provide advice to the Victorian Government on reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the lifecycle of infrastructure projects.
11/07/2023/by ANCR

What are the Development Opportunities Around Sydney’s Metro Stations?

Significant opportunities are emerging to better integrate residential, commercial and mixed-use projects, creating new urban communities around metro rail in particular.
04/07/2023/by ANCR

A Win with Cost-Effective Access to Australian Standards

Standards Australia have agreed to provide trades, and presumably also professions, with all of the relevant standards that they will need for around $100.
27/06/2023/by ANCR

Building a Low Carbon Future

Australia’s built environment is responsible for almost a quarter of the country’s carbon emissions. As such, the Australian Institute of Architects is calling for urgent reforms to address emissions from the sector and to bring about a net zero future.
20/06/2023/by ANCR

Skills needed to enable productivity-enhancing technology

As the world continues to embrace technology, systems will become more complex making the skills engineers possess critical to the construction industry. Australia is currently experiencing a significant shortage of engineering skills affecting most disciplines and sectors.
02/12/2022/by ANCR

Why it’s important to reframe the industry

The construction industry is currently under immense pressure, facing a number of challenges, including rising commodity prices, supply chain disruptions, and a protracted labour shortage.
29/11/2022/by ANCR

New Housing: It’s about supply actually!

Much has been said about the lack of housing across Australia, and there is no doubt we are facing a critical housing shortage. Supply is being routinely constrained due to increasingly difficult and slow planning systems.
28/11/2022/by ANCR

Raising the stakes on water reuse

Many of the States and Territories have plans in place to address water security and climate resilience but the timing to implement various initiatives are often at the tail end, that is, 2050 of the current planning horizon.
22/11/2022/by ANCR

Connected Construction Management Software Key to Disconnecting Silos

Information silos are detrimental to today’s construction jobsite, leading to inefficiencies, miscommunication and mistakes, which can cause projects to go over budget and past their deadlines, leaving clients unhappy and employees frustrated.
21/11/2022/by ANCR

The Peak Industry body for Women in Construction

NAWIC has a bold mission to achieve 25% female participation in construction by 2025.
18/11/2022/by ANCR

Developing Australian-Based Embodied Carbon Standards

To achieve Net Zero carbon by 2035, it is imperative for the Australian construction industry to develop and adopt Australian-Based Embodied Carbon Standards which are independent, transparent, and meet international standards.
11/11/2022/by ANCR

The case for electrifying new and existing buildings

We are seeing a new revolution unfold, with clean energy addressing the challenges of health, climate change, air quality and energy affordability. Electrifying buildings is part of this revolution and the technologies to make it happen exist and are being used today...
11/11/2022/by ANCR

Investing in the Northern Territory

Northern Australians understand that developing the north is not only good for Northern Australia, but for the nation.
20/05/2022/by ANCR

Digital is the key building block to help solve our resource challenges

There is currently unprecedented spending in infrastructure in Australia creating intense pressure on the industry’s ability to meet the resourcing demands.
18/05/2022/by ANCR

Sustainable and Resilient – Delivering the Infrastructure Needed for 21st Century Challenges

Since the summer of 2019, Australian communities have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, a record-breaking bushfire season, economic vulnerability, extensive flooding, increasing geopolitical uncertainty, and
cyber-attacks on operational infrastructure. These challenges have demonstrated how critical our infrastructure is for maintaining community well-being, biodiversity, and a functional economy.
12/05/2022/by ANCR

Infrastructure and skilled labour shortage

11/04/2022/by ANCR

2022 Federal Budget Briefing – GBCA

11/04/2022/by ANCR

How engineers shape the future: Navigating uncertainty to anticipate and take charge of change

01/12/2021/by ANCR

Building a Path to a Brighter Future – OpEd

Often used as a psychological tool to motivate the masses, platitudes have become the means to an end to achieve a positive outcome. Yet ‘Building a Path to a Brighter Future’ articulates a marketing position of progression – and its effective!
13/08/2021/by ANCR

Sector Transformation

02/02/2021/by ANCR

Rethinking Living in 2021

Confidence had returned to the Australian residential market…
02/02/2021/by ANCR

Leading and Embracing Sustainability in all Aspects

Amidst the challenges facing our industry, as we gradually move…
02/02/2021/by ANCR

Sustainability will be a crucial buyer focus in 2021

A recent SHAWOOD consumer survey found that 24% of Australians…
01/02/2021/by ANCR

A new era of sustainable infrastructure ahead

Two recent announcements – the federal budget and Infrastructure’s…
01/02/2021/by ANCR

Victorian Construction Bounces Back

It’s heartening to see a promising bounceback in construction…
01/02/2021/by ANCR

At a ‘Hinge’ in History

I recently read a fascinating BBC Future article which suggested…
01/02/2021/by ANCR

Spike in self reliance see Australian Made supply chain on the up

by Andrew Hogg



If there is one thing we have learnt over…
01/02/2021/by ANCR

Moving towards maintenance-free infrastructure assets

Construction companies across Australia are benefitting from cost-effective measures to ensure their infrastructure assets are protected against the effects of our harsh climate.
21/02/2019/by ANCR

It’s everyone’s responsibility to think long-term

Construction is a multi-billion dollar industry in Australia, and due to the nature of the game some people try to cut corners when it comes to delivering projects on time and on budget.
20/02/2019/by ANCR

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