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Professor David Williams and Dr Mehdi Serati from UQ’s School of Civil Engineering will manage over $3.5 million in funding from global mining companies for the fourth round of the Large Open Pit Project (LOP IV) from 2025 to 2028.

Temporary housing for people displaced by natural disasters could become cheaper, lighter and more sustainable with innovative new timber-cardboard construction panels developed by University of Queensland researchers.

Dr Denys Villa Gomez and researchers at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) are using synthetic microbes to clean up toxic mining waste and extract valuable rare earth materials, transforming harmful red mud into a resource.

A/Prof Joe Gattas in a big collaboration with his colleagues at RMIT Engineers has designed an innovative tubular structural system that can be packed flat for easier transport and pop up into strong building materials.

Professor Hubert Chanson documented the heavy rains and flooding in Tasmania, including the flood and spill of Trevallyn Dam in Launceston, during the recent wild weather in Southern Australia.

The Brisbane 2032 Summer Olympic Games offer a unique chance for investment in iconic Queensland infrastructure, with UQ civil engineering students conducting a comprehensive civil engineering design assessment of an existing stadium and associated infrastructure at a potential Olympic development site.

University of Queensland structural engineer Professor Chien-Ming Wang has been elected to the European Academy of Science and Arts (EASA) for his outstanding achievements in technical and environmental sciences.

University of Queensland sampling during and after the February 2022 Brisbane River flood has sounded a warning about the future of Moreton Bay with climate change predicted to bring more extreme weather.

The University of Queensland has co-led a project to design a cost effective yet robust pen to expand fish farming into deeper ocean areas to help feed the growing global population.

University of Queensland researchers have found improving timber production efficiencies by just 5% could unlock supply for an extra 8,000 homes to be built in Australia each year.

Associate Professor Simon Albert and Dr Nick Hutley from UQ’s School of Civil Engineering along with colleagues in the faculty of science are creating a new coral reef protection tool funded by the Coral Research and Development Accelerator Platform (CORDAP).

A tool developed by Associate Professor Simon Albert and Dr Nick Hutley at The University of Queensland that measures floodwater depth and velocity will be sold globally after it was licensed to US-based company, Xylem. The camera system can measure water in times of natural disaster, like flooding, without risking human safety and equipment. Licensed by UniQuest, this game-changing UQ tech is already in use across Queensland, the Murray-Darling Basin, Tasmania and in New Zealand, Europe and the US.

Coral reef islands, mangroves and marshes are on the frontline of sea-level rise impacts driven by climate change. In work published in Nature, multiple lines of evidence from the paleo record and present day are integrated to assess the probability these ecosystems will be resilient to future sea-level rise scenarios. Unfortunately, results indicate if we continue on our current trajectory, we can expect widespread loss of these critical ecosystems. Staying within the Paris Agreement targets and investing in restoration and protection will give these ecosystems a fighting chance.

A master's student in Engineering Science (Management) at the University of Queensland, Linzi Fan, is making significant contributions to the project Forcing Tectonics, which is exhibited in Testing Grounds Emporium, Melbourne Design Week. Led by Dr. Nic Bao, Dr. Dan Luo, and Dr. Xin Yan, the project explores the integration of generative design and digital fabrication to investigate new automated methods for making complex optimized structures.

An undergraduate civil and geotechnical engineering student at The University of Queensland (UQ) has generated promising insights into fire resistance of shotcrete mixes made of waste glass in response to the shotcrete industry's cost crisis.

Timber may be one of the oldest and most common building materials, but innovations like these are transforming its role in the future of construction. Originally written by Chloe Hava from Engineers Australia.

PhD Students Sasan Moravej and Mutaz Mahmoud from the School of Civil Engineering were awarded the Runner-up Best Paper Award out of over 180 papers from 34 countries at EUROCK 2022 in Helsinki, Finland, sponsored by the International Society of Rock Mechanics (ISRM).

Dr Lisa Ottenhaus, Lecturer in Structural Timber Engineering, recently spoke to The Conversation.

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has today awarded three major grants to The University of Queensland to establish two new industrial research hubs and a training centre.

Australia’s ability to manage coastal and offshore waters for sustainable food production has been boosted with new data and imaging research that could enhance our aquaculture operations.