News & Events (2006 Archives)

150 staff, sponsors and 4th year students from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering recently celebrated the annual 4th year dinner at the Marriott Hotel Sydney. The dinner was an opportunity for the School community to celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of our final year students...

Two new $10,000 third-year Scholarships (for 2007 & 2008) from Leighton Contractors Pty. Ltd. Pty. Ltd. were recently signed. This adds to Leighton’s existing four-year scholarships currently offered to attract high achieving rural students...

The Faculties of Engineering and the Built Environment are proud to announce a new single BE degree in Civil Engineering with Architecture.

Over the last decade, water cycle management has become an increasingly challenging marketplace of ideas. Citizens have demanded increasingly higher environmental performance from their water service providers, while governments demand g...

Dr Kourosh Kayvani – an alumni and a member of the School's Industry Advisory Committee received an award from the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. Dr Kayvani received the award in recognition of his leading role in the design of many long span, often cable-supported ...

Over the past few years, desalination of seawater has been an option considered in Australia for the supplementation of water supply. Indeed Perth are currently building a desalination plant at Kwinana and Sydney is in the planning stages for one at Kurnell. There are many issues surrounding desalin...

In the highly competitive ARC Discovery and Linkage programs, the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering was once again the most successful school or department in the discipline in Australia. Of the successful ARC grants commencing in 2007, School staff won three new Discovery grants, totali...