After years in the planning, Eastland Port in Gisborne has received the official go ahead to proceed with two major infrastructure projects. On December 2, the Environment Court advised that they had signed off the resource consents for the rebuild of Wharf 7 and the slipway. “This is the culminatio
North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) announced today that the Port of Mackay is buzzing with hi-vis activity in the run-up to Christmas, with up to 100 jobs being supported across three infrastructure projects currently underway. Commenting the latest news, Member for Mackay, Julieanne Gil
Hall Contracting has won the largest contract in Port of Townsville’s $232 million Channel Upgrade Project. The works include capital dredging to widen 14.9 kilometers of sea channels over two years and reclamation of 62 hectares of land through beneficial reuse of dredged material. Employing a loca
A $2.5 million dredging campaign in northern Gold Coast waterways will benefit boaties in one of the city’s fastest growing areas, Gold Coast Waterways Authority (GCWA) reports. Work is underway on dredging Main Channel (North and South) in the Jacobs Well area. The south east Queensland company Hal
Three groynes (15m-30m length) have been constructed as a five-year trial at Flaxmill Bay to mitigate erosion of the dunes and assist with building up a high tide beach, Thames-Coromandel District Council informs. Work started last month and was completed on Friday, 4 December, one week ahead of sch
The dredging market still puts up with certain challenges when it comes to gate valves. Take, for example, the high level of wear and tear. During an operation, material (such as sand) flows through this section of the vessel continuously. There is also the issue of space onboard. In current desig
CSIRO and the Western Australian Marine Science Institution will next week, Friday 11th December, hold an information webinar to outline the Guideline on Dredge Plume Modelling for Environmental Impact Assessment. The guideline provides current best practice for dredge plume modelling in the context
Western Australia Premier, Mark McGowan, today officially opened the first of two stages of the transformational Bunbury Waterfront project, the Jetty Road Causeway. The two-year project involved major repairs to the causeway with an additional 31,000 tonnes of rock placed to strengthen the structur
WEDA’s webinar on Engineering with Nature (EWN) Initiative will take place Friday, November 11, 2020 from 1 to 2 PM EST. This webinar will be presented by Dr. Burton Suedel, a Research Biologist at U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. Engineering With Nature is the intentional alignme
The Territory Labor Government has released the technical concept design for the new marine facilities at Mandorah, a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia. The release of the final technical design will provide more certainty for the construction industry and deliver much-needed infrastru
In conjunction with a major dredging operation currently underway in the Eastern Channel of the Lower Myall River to remove 120,000 cubic meters of sand, MidCoast Council is in the process of placing 20,000 cubic meters onto Jimmys Beach to renourish and provide a buffer for upcoming storm events. J
Members of the Thames-Coromandel District Council’s Coastal Panels recently toured the district, looking at areas of current and future risk of coastal inundation, erosion and sea level rise. The site visits followed on from the initial orientation workshop last month, where coastal panelists came t
