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Maintaining local roads is a perennial challenge for councils. Here, AUS-SPEC Manager Nandini Mehta outlines four treatment options to prolong the lifespan of pavement. Sprayed preservation surfacing treatments are generally applied to low-volume sealed roads where primary distress is caused...
A booming international flight market, a rapidly growing local population and seventeen years of uninterrupted traffic growth have placed greater urgency on infrastructure investment in and around Melbourne Airport. intouch toured the airport and surrounding estate courtesy of investment...
By Chris Edwards, AUS-SPEC Engineer Many regional councils struggle with recruiting and retaining skilled public works engineers, and with an increasing number of local government engineers starting to retire the problem is only going to get worse. Chris Edwards is a civil engineer with...
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Title: Solid-State Lighting-Early Lessons Learned on the Way to Market Published by: U.S. Department of Energy Year published: 2014 #International #Referencedocument #Yearpublished2014 #AssetManagement #ProjectManagementandDelivery
Solid-State Lighting-Early Lessons Learned on the Way to Market - US-DOE - 2014.pdf
As cities become larger and more complicated, the internet of things is expected to play an increasingly important role in their management. So, it makes sense that parks management can also benefit from ‘smart city’ technology. According to Henk de Graaf, Managing Director at Industrial...
The local government revenue model has been broken by a growing expenditure that far outstrips what citizens are willing to pay for services, according to the authors of a new report. Giving Governments the Reboot: Improving the Financial Sustainability of Local Governments found...
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It’s a common tale: council staff are being asked to complete asset management plans across their departments, without necessarily having the skills in house to write them. Nambucca Shire Council, like many other local governments, has been on an asset management journey, according to...
This spreadsheet is designed to make use of the RMS Crash data provided in dbf format. It uses lookup formulae to convert the codes included in the dbf files to readable values, as supplied by RMS in text file format in the 'Labels for DBF fields' directory which accompanies the CD data supply...
RMS Crash Data dbf import TEMPLATE.xlsx
Rob Adams, Director City Design at City of Melbourne, has been investigating how to accommodate four million extra people in the coming decades – without contributing to urban sprawl, and with a focus on liveability and sustainability. You’re currently working on how to...
Towards its ambitious goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2020, Darebin City Council in Victoria has retrofitted one of its aquatic and recreation centres, resulting in impressive energy and water savings. Darebin City Council – located on the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria – joined...