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CERES Community Environment Park constructed wetland
BUSINESS PARTNER: AECOM COMMUNITY PARTNER: CERES COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT PARK Pro bono services provided by AECOM: concept design for a constructed wetland, detailed engineering analysis of the dam lining, a planting guide, wetland management reports and educational...
Lama Lama water supply project
BUSINESS PARTNER: ARUP COMMUNITY PARTNER: CENTRE OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY (CFAT) Pro bono services provided by ARUP: concept and detailed designs for a new raw water intake and treatment system for the Yintingga Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) to improve the safety and...
Schneider’s Innovation Champions training
What could the role of an organisation like Schneider Electric look like when working with organisations, such as EWB, to reach the last mile - the very end-users in remote communities that are often the most challenging to reach? This question was explored as part of...
The realities of climate change in rural Cambodia
For communities like Koh Thnaot in Cambodia, the impacts of climate change are already being acutely felt. An ever-shortening and inconsistent wet season has cut their rice-harvesting season in half and made agricultural farming unpredictable, forcing the need to...
Cessation of GHD Partnership
Recently EWB Australia (EWB) has learned that one of it’s corporate partners, engineering firm GHD, is a consultant engineer to the Adani Mining Carmichael coalmine project in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland. GHD has a public commitment to sustainable...
From stormwater to wastewater
“How do we act together to mitigate the impact of human waste on the health of communities” Stephanie Hamel is WASH Program Manager in Vanuatu with EWB Australia and EWB New Zealand. This World Toilet Day she shares her reflections on saniation and the global...
Eight engineers, eight days, three communities
EWB Australia pilots its new professional skills development program in three remote Cambodian communities. Today’s engineers are working within a rapidly evolving global economy and are required to address issues like climate change, technology emergence, automation,...
Finding the glowing happiness inside
“A small glowing happiness on the inside’ is how Jenny Mackay describes her feelings having spent some time volunteering with EWB School Outreach. Jenny, a chemical engineer at Origin Energy put her hand up to volunteer with EWB school outreach after she saw a...
Sighting the horizon: STEM pathways for foster children
Kevin Gallard National Program Manager for The Pyjama Foundation, is describing the response of Pyjama Foundation staff as they watched ten EWB volunteers from Queensland University of Technology teaching STEM principles to a group of foster children. “I can’t tell...
Forging Pathways For Women
In Timor-Leste, three in ten people lack access to clean water - essential services and infrastructure are still developing. A relatively low-skilled engineering sector compounds these challenges, and women face specific barriers accessing education and employment....