today announced the signing of a significant five-year contract with an optional five-year extension between its subsidiary, InEight Pty Ltd., and Sydney Water to transform the way Australia’s largest water utility delivers projects and collaborates with its three regional delivery...
“AECOM is proud to have had the opportunity to work on one of the biggest and most significant water infrastructure projects in Australia,” said Stephen Woodrow, Director – Head of Tunnelling, AECOM Europe. “This project demonstrates AECOM’s worldwide capability for mobilizing resources”. Ope...
and departments established by the state government. The most important of these responsibilities concern water, sewerage andstormdrainage, electricity, major roads, fruit and vegetable markets, and many aspects of health and welfare. Furthermore, some land remains under federal control. The result is...
those offered by any major city, there is still no doubt that its most lasting impression and greatest attraction is its physical setting. A high proportion of Sydney’s residents can glimpse at least a strip of blue water from their windows, and nearly all can live within an hour of a ...
After consultation with community and stakeholders,we moved to retain all creeks and riparian corridors from Strahler level 3 and above within open space.This allows for eventually transferring the major and intermediate corridors to public ownership and management.Open space,active transport corridors...
The history behind the Opera House and its creation is as rich as the architecture itself. In 1956 theNew South WalesGovernment called an open competition for the design of two performance halls, for opera and for symphony concerts, hoping to establishSydneyas a major city. Danish architectJø...
An unprecedented number of major construction projects in Sydney could be responsible for stirring up rat populations and driving them into closer contact with humans and pets. "They've put the trams in, they're digging up the city for the tunnel -- they took their (rats) homes away," War...
A priority will be placed on the simpler projects which will not require extensive infrastructure works (such as the Beare park proposal above). This means once water levels are deemed safe for swimming by reducing the pollution, it won’t be too long before the scheme is implemented & we ...
The city’s major summer exhibitions are now welcoming visitors, and we reckon they're living up to the blockbuster status. The Art Gallery of NSW is levelling things up in a surreal way, recently unveiling Magritte (open ‘til Feb 9)– the biggest display from the influential surrealist ...