Project Management News from Australia and the World August 1st 2019

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Here at Your Project Manager we consider it our job to keep on top of all that is project management not just here in Queensland and Australia, but also worldwide. Just like others across all walks of life, we have our favourite online project management resources which help us to keep abreast of all the latest news, views, and advances in our sphere of expertise.

In the same way that you and your business use market knowledge to keep ahead of your competition, so it helps us to maintain the leading position of project management advice and on-site training.

Here are just a few of the things that we’ve found of most interest over the last few days and that we feel might be of interest to you, too:

·      NEC Australia takes ACIC to court over biometric identification project

The AU$52 million BIS project, awarded to NEC Australia, kicked off before … at an early stage, blaming the ACIC for not effectively managing the BIS project.

·      Kellogg’s signs with solar farm to take NSW operations 100% renewable

Kellogg’s Australia has signed a seven-and-a-half year power purchase … Tom Best, the director of Project Management in the Asia Pacific region for First Solar

·      BHGE, McDermott secure next-phase Ichthys subsea contracts

The companies will lead it from the joint Project Management and Engineering office in Perth, Australia. Fabrication of the subsea URF equipment will be carried

·      Tesla Announces New Big Ass Battery

Tesla is building the world’s largest lithium-ion battery in South Australia … a scalable battery solution that was used for the South Australia project. … bi-directional inverters, a thermal management system, an AC main breaker and controls.

·      The expanding project stopping reef-destroying sediment at its source

Greening Australia ecologist Dr Lynise Wearne, the project’s science and … land under a modified management program to further reduce sediment runoff.

·      Infrastructure projects getting too risky for insurers: AECOM

Todd Battley, chief executive of AECOM’s Australia and New Zealand … a more collaborative approach to procurement, project management and risk allocation

·      Flender: At home in the mine

Whether in Peru, China or Australia, in Chile, Russia or Zambia, Brazil, India or the … In project management, the company often talks about flexibility

·      Singapore, powered by Tennant Creek: NT gives major project status …

Sun Cable’s proposed $20 billion Australia-Singapore Power Link near Tennant Creek would … Sun Cable director of project management Mac Thompson told

·      National Water Grid to unlock potential of regional Australia

National Water Grid to unlock potential of regional Australia … will deliver strategic planning and project management for water infrastructure across the nation

·      BRI to cause boom in project management jobs

China is expected to generate 46 million jobs related to project management by … said the top executive of the Project Management Institute, an international

·      AI In Project Management

The field and industry of project management emerged as a way to manage a collection of people towards an end goal. For project managers, it is commonplace

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