We are pleased to welcome Ryan Dodd into the role of General Manager - Queensland and Northern Territory.
Ryan brings more than 16 years of experience working across domestic and international engineering and construction sectors. His background includes overseeing high performing teams on large-scale projects, and his most recent roles have seen him build extensive client relationships within Queensland, Northern Territory and beyond.
Welcome to the team, Ryan!
Our project teams are using specialist noise, dust and vibration monitoring equipment to ensure the disruption to local communities is kept to a minimum. A smart device, known as Site Hive, provides real time data and allows our teams to monitor and manage the impact of construction on the local community.
The tool can identify the sources of construction noise and provide clear graphical reporting of the noise situation on site, which allows work to be altered to minimise the impact on the local community.
Our construction managers can quickly verify and respond to noise complaints and exceedances by shutting down particular work or staging work at different times. Noise reduction controls like noise blankets and walls can also be considered.
Our environmental manager on the Inland Rail Project, Steve Eeles (pictured), said The Site Hive allows us to keep on top of noise and vibration ‘spikes’ and work with our construction partners proactively to manage the impact.
“The real time monitoring allows us to see levels remotely, which is a huge advantage on a project as geographically spread as ours."
We recently sponsored an all-female Constructionarium in Australia.
Constructionarium is a hands-on 8-day, accelerated training experience for new infrastructure staff to work as a team to plan, tender, build and handover a scale project of a bridge structure.
The program is designed for early career professionals, graduate program participants, interns and those new to infrastructure, and is aimed at developing skills and understanding of the entire project life cycle through tendering, delivery and client handover phases.
And why an all female cohort?
Australia has a shortage of over 100,000 engineers to build the infrastructure we need for our future. Women remain significantly under represented in engineering. The more women we can attract to our profession and retain through great development initiatives like the Constructionarium, the better for our country.
The digital transformation of our industry is moving full steam ahead and our digital engineering team is keeping pace.
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We're very proud that our 'microlearning safety initiative' has been shortlisted for the Best WHS Learning & Professional Development Program Award, which is bestowed by the Australian Institute of Health and Safety.
Microlearning delivers short bursts of content for learners to study at their convenience. Content can take many forms, from text to full-blown interactive multimedia. But it is always brief and targeted.
Read how we're using it here, and stay tuned to see if we secure the award in August.
