On 25 May, SMEC celebrated the grand opening of our new corporate office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The Australian and NSW Governments are investing in the widening and upgrade of the section of Maitland Road between Newcastle Inner City Bypass and Hexham Bridge known as ‘Hexham Straight’.

Habibie Razak, Regional Manager for SMEC Indonesia, recently presented SMEC’s expertise on quantity surveying to the 2023 ASEAN Quantity Surveying Association (AQSA) Congress. The event was held in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia on 16-17 May 2023. The theme of this year’s congress was “Envisioning Sustainability and Digitalisation in ASEAN Construction Industry”.

Organized by KN Unique Communications, the Ghana-West Africa Business Awards recognize the top business sector companies and individuals in Ghana and other countries of West Africa.

Specialists from SMEC’s Water Resources team will deliver technical presentations at the 2023 Floodplain Management Australia National Conference in Sydney. The annual event has been hosted by the FMA for over 50 years, and is the most esteemed flood risk management forum of its kind in Australia.

The SMEC RITES JV has been overseeing the management and implementation of the Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor (HORC) project since early 2022, with foundation stone laid in October 2022 by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

SMEC has been engaged by DT Global, through the Australian Government-funded Economic and Social Infrastructure Program (ESIP), to undertake a feasibility study for the rehabilitation of the Pauanda Hydropower Project in Papua New Guinea.

SMEC’s bridge structures specialists are presenting technical papers at the 2023 Australian Small Bridges Conference, Australasia’s largest bridge exhibition, held on the Gold Coast, Australia. The Conference will feature a comprehensive exhibition, providing attendees the opportunity to view and discuss innovative products and services now available from bridge contractors, designers and suppliers.

In late 2022 Parklife Metro, comprising Plenary, Webuild, RATP Development and Siemens were awarded the contract for the Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport – Stations, Systems, Trains, Operations and Maintenance (SSTOM) project.

SMEC’s tunnelling and geotechnics specialists are presenting technical papers at this year’s ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress, one of the top world tunnelling conferences with participation from more than 2000 industry professionals.