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Budding humanitarian engineers win internships at GHD
Posted on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 05:20 PM
Developing a way of making emptying pit latrines in developing countries like Kenya safer and more dignified earned two University of Sydney engineering students Vanathy Arudselvan and Yeeun Cho paid internships at GHD.
The duo received the GHD Humanitarian Internship Prize presented at the Humanitarian Innovation (Digital) Hackathon hosted by engineering think-tank the Warren Centre. The weekend-long virtual event brought together university students to work collaboratively in cross-discipline teams...
Snowy 2.0 energy expansion project reaches major milestone
Posted on Monday, July 27, 2020 04:00 PM
Leading professional services company, GHD has achieved a major milestone drilling to a borehole depth of 2000 metres, as part of its geotechnical investigations on Snowy 2.0 – the largest renewable energy expansion project in Australia.
The GHD and Deepcore Drilling team drilled to a depth of 2000 metres to investigate ground conditions for Future Generation and Snowy Hydro Limited (SHL). Not only did this milestone exceed Deepcore's previous depth record by 650 metres, the borehole also had an...
Movement Strategies commissioned by the SGSA
Posted on Thursday, July 23, 2020 06:03 PM
Movement Strategies, a subsidiary of GHD and leading people movement and crowd dynamics consultancy, has been commissioned by the Sports Grounds Safety Authority (SGSA) to support the evaluation of social distancing measures at a series of upcoming pilot sporting events, which were announced on 17 July. This is a key phase in the UK Government’s planning for the safe return of spectators to live sport, enabling its ‘stage five’ guidance to be stress-tested in advance of a proposed re-opening of sports...
2020 Most Innovative Engineers - Australia
Posted on Thursday, July 23, 2020 12:21 PM
Recognised for their outstanding engineering innovations, GHD’s Nicholas Deeks and GHD Digital’s Jeff Fisher were named among Australia’s 30 Most Innovative Engineers for 2020.
Nicholas was recognised for his leading role in developing innovative approaches to flood modelling to help prevent catastrophic water main failure for Hunter Water Corporation, a water utility in New South Wales, Australia.
While building and running flood models is 'business as usual' for GHD, the method for automating 57,000...
Design work has commenced on $400M Western Australia road and rail project
Posted on Friday, July 17, 2020 06:18 PM
A team encompassing up to 90 staff collectively from BG&E and GHD will join Main Roads Western Australia to complete design work for the Tonkin Highway Corridor helping to reinvigorate Perth’s economy.
The Tonkin Gap Alliance, comprising a mix of Tier 2 local and Australian Owned Contractors including Georgiou Group, BMD and WA Limestone, as well as designers BG&E and GHD will deliver detailed design and infrastructure works to alleviate a major bottleneck – improving traffic flows,...