Project Management News from Australia and the World February 7th 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:

·      Wood and KBR Win Crux FEED Project Offshore Western Australia

The services will be delivered over 18-months by Wood and KBR’s engineering and project management teams in Perth, WA, supported by Wood’s Kuala …

·      Boom Logistics wins wind farm contract with Goldwin Australia in …

Boom Logistics wins wind farm contract with Goldwin Australia in Tasmania … cranes, rigging, engineering, mechanical, electrical and project management on site. … The company is also working on a wind farm construction project with GE

·      Unmanned systems: UAS traffic management from Amazon, flight …

Unmanned systems: UAS traffic management from Amazon, flight permissions for UAS in Australia, underwater mapping project planned for AUVs in Brazil.

·      IBM keeping the AU$11 billion metro tunnel on track

… the management for the delivery of the Metro Tunnel Project, the largest ever … “As other major infrastructure programs come online around Australia, this

Queensland subcontractors owed $500 million across 50 building …

… of the Project Management Institute, said authorities needed to get tough and to … “I agree with John Winter of ARITA (Australian Restructuring Insolvency and

·      ClearVue PV trials a solar portal to the future

Australian retail landlord, Vicinity Centres, has remodelled the northern entry of one of … “The Warwick Grove Centre project represents a major milestone for the … $27 billion of retail assets under management across 67 Australian shopping

·      Western Australia launches strategy to fuel battery industry

Noting that Western Australia is well place to seize the battery manufacturing … for a massive solar+wind+storage project last week, and the Australian-first trial to … through assembly, installation and management of energy storage systems.

·      Rehabilitating Australia’s mines: projects leading the way

Australia is home to mining operations that can inflict damage on the natural … management,” said a spokesman for the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA). … but the project has been the recipient of an extensive progressive rehabilitation

·      Brisbane’s Mt Coot-tha zipline project approved

Brisbane’s Mt Coot-tha zipline project approved … attractions; to solidify Brisbane’s global reputation as Australia’s New World City. …. us by subscribing to the printed Australasian Leisure Management magazine – if you don’t already do so.

·      Federal government excessively spent $580 million on consultants

The Australian federal government excessively spent more than $580 million on … for services such as strategy, organisation, project management, technology

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