This paper aims to propose improvements in the concrete placing process using Value Stream Mapping. The results suggest that the columns concreting process lead time could be potentially reduced from five hours and nineteen minutes to two hours and four minutes.

Current research in Lean Construction Management (LCM) targets automated digital methods that support work package planning and make inferences about states of progress. The scope of the presented work focuses on closing the feedback loop of lean construction planning, progress tracking, and status control by using 4D information from Building Information Modeling (BIM) as well...

In examining the Environment Protection Amendment (Banning Plastic Bags, Packaging and Microbeads) Bill 2016, the Committee has considered all of the submissions and, in this report, it briefly discusses some of the issues raised in submissions or in oral evidence by way of background information to the Bill.

Cities today absorb the bulk of the world’s natural resources, and their solid, liquid and gaseous wastes are often carelessly dumped somewhere in nature. But ‘environmental boomerangs’ are increasingly in evidence: In their own self-interest, cities urgently need to reduce their environmental impacts and ecological footprints, and to contribute towards regenerating damaged ecosystems.

The latest report on the state of Tasmania's water and sewerage has confirmed the need for urgent action. The report shows that: In 2015-16, the number of sewer overflows increased by more than 20 per cent from 164 to 201; The rate of sewer overflows in Tasmania (4.3 per 100 km of sewer main) is...