When I interview engineers applying for chartered status in our institution, Engineers Australia, I’m interested to learn their technical prowess, and their ability to understand and solve a pro…
The world is changing. Faster and more suddenly than most of us expected. Forget COVID-19, it was changing before then. The ONLY constant is change! Many of us have moved our meetings online. Even aft…
Spreadsheets are great. You can do anything (well, almost) on a spreadsheet. But you know as well as I do that some things are better on a database (who remembers Access?). People avoid using database…
As a young engineer, that’s what they called me. The lean, keen, structural machine! A skinny, nerdy young bloke, still wet behind the ears, that never understood the need for excessive design, …
It’s actually a trick question. Why? Because rebar does “one thing”, and steel fibres do “another thing”. You don’t get to choose. You either want the thing that re…
Bolts are an essential item in a bolted connection, and whilst that sounds like the ultimate obvious statement, you would not believe how many missing bolts we discover in our structural inspections. …
