LWARE’s SMART Technology takes a unique approach to using IoT devices to generate a comprehensive digital site record. The platform creates a digital recording of construction activities, overlaying this data with the project schedule to provide real time visibility of plant, personnel, and site operations.

SMART addresses critical industry challenges by delivering real-time visibility of site operations, enabling proactive safety management, improved coordination, and reduced inefficiencies. By providing accurate and timely insights, SMART Technology enables informed decision-making, streamlines collaboration, and drives enhanced project outcomes.

The technology is intuitive, with a straightforward setup process enabling teams to benefit from real-time visibility immediately, without lengthy or complex training.

SMART has strong potential for widespread adoption due to its practicality, scalability, and ability to deliver a unified, data rich project view. Its capacity to improve productivity and collaboration positions it as a transformative tool for Queensland’s civil construction sector and the broader industry.

Civil Geotechnical Consultants, working with the Department of Transport and Main Roads and Fulton Hogan Hull McIlwain Joint Venture, delivered the detailed geotechnical design for the Coomera Connector Stage 1 Central project.

The project required the construction of an embankment over soft soils within a constrained brownfield corridor adjacent to an operational light rail system, imposing extremely tight deformation limits.

The team applied a first-of-its-kind 3D modelling approach, adopting a Hardening Soil model with small strain behaviour to model Mass Soil Mixing and staged excavation into an operational rail embankment. Extremely low settlement tolerances were met with confidence.

The innovative approach removed the need for conservative temporary works, reduced material use and construction duration, and avoided rail service disruption. The methodology sets a new benchmark for geotechnical best practice in Queensland, with strong potential for adoption across rail, road, and urban infrastructure projects.

In late 2024, Ports North sought tenders for the construction of the Cairns Southern Barge Ramp. During the design phase, Brady Marine & Civil proposed an alternate solution – the use of a precast pile cap on a monopile – in place of the original raked pile and cast in-situ design.

Their approach delivered significant benefits across safety, sustainability and cost-effectiveness. Precasting the pile cap on land removed the need for on-water concrete works, reducing risk and accelerating delivery. Cost savings achieved through Brady Marine & Civil’s solution were passed directly to Ports North, reducing the overall cost of delivering this critical public infrastructure.

The arrangement can be implemented in future designs and utilised for a range of marine facilities and industries across the Australian coast. The innovation highlights how collaborative engagement between client and contractor can unlock solutions that advance industry practice

Inertia LandAI is the result of a partnership between Inertia Engineering, Civix, and Allsite, bringing Allsite’s AI-powered platform, Level.ai, to the land development sector. The technology rapidly processes topography, drainage, grading, and servicing constraints to generate engineering-led site layouts in weeks instead of months.

The groundbreaking platform enables dozens of design scenarios to be tested, giving developers a clearer path to commercial and engineering certainty. For engineers, manual drafting and modelling time is significantly reduced, enabling the prioritisation of value-adding work such as risk mitigation and alternative design assessments.

The technology is highly transferrable across residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects, and easily integrates with existing flood and geotechnical processes. The system scales from small subdivisions to 10,000-lot communities, exporting directly into civil design software, ensuring compatibility with standard workflows.

Inertia LandAI has strong potential to become best practice for early-stage land development across Queensland and beyond, lifting the industry’s capability for speed, certainty, and smarter engineering outcomes.

The Fulton Hogan Hull McIlwain Joint Venture is delivering the Coomera Connector Stage 1 Central Project, adopting a digital-first approach to manage its scale and complexity.

The team used a suite of innovative digital solutions to drive measurable improvements in planning, cost control and productivity, while minimising rework across the project lifecycle. Key tools include centralised data visualisation and permit management, digital QA defect management, a custom Material Order App, digital rehearsals using BIM models, and more.

Centralised data visualisations provided teams with reliable 2D data views for effective planning, integrating design drawings, utility data, existing services and aerial imagery into a unified, cloud-based system. The digital QA defect management system used ArcGIS Online to replace paper-based methods by capturing location-based defect data on mobile devices and automatically syncing to the cloud for instant office access.

These digital innovations not only addressed project-specific challenges but demonstrate how existing technology can be adopted by industry to streamline processes, enhance safety and deliver smarter, more sustainable outcomes.

Red Fox Advisory rose to the challenge of designing the complex Birtinya Cable Stay Pedestrian Bridge over a 130-metre operational waterway. Once completed, the bridge will serve as a critical link in the active transport network around Lake Kawana, providing direct access to key amenities, including primary and secondary schools, the Sunshine Coast Sports Precinct, and the Birtinya shopping precinct.

The team collaborated with Georgiou Brady Marine Joint Venture early in the pre-construction phase to conduct detailed modelling of each construction stage to predict how steel elements would perform.

Detailed 3D models were developed and used during fabrication, allowing fabricators to visualise the final structure and enhance their understanding and execution of the design. The team’s detailed planning ensured the structure was assembled on-site without modification, showcasing the advantages of off-site fabrication as a mitigation against project risks and delays.

The project highlights the importance of integrating design and construction practices, making solutions more efficient, safe, and constructable.

The Kangaroo Point Bridge is more than a bridge. It connects communities, encourages active transport, enhances the river landscape, and delivers lasting social, environmental and economic value. Led by Brisbane City Council and delivered by BESIX Watpac and WSP, the project reflects a shared commitment to innovation.

The team navigated significant technical and environmental hurdles. The bridge’s slender, long-span geometry posed vibration risks under wind and pedestrian loads, addressed through advanced wind tunnel testing and dynamic analysis. Construction in a flood-prone river required resilience planning, with real-time water monitoring providing proactive scheduling during major flood events, avoiding costly delays.

The project sets a benchmark for digital engineering and establishes new industry best practice. Parametric 3D digital models linking design with construction accelerated decision-making, reduced design clashes, saved time in the field and provided a safer working environment.

Since opening in December 2024, the bridge has exceeded expectations, recording more than 3.4 million crossings and becoming a vital part of Brisbane’s daily life.

Established in 1988, our founders identified a need for a company that understood the requirements of civil construction projects and the needs of construction plant operators. Thus, Fleet Plant Hire was unearthed.

We exist to provide an extensive range of plant hire and material solutions to both large and small infrastructure construction businesses, Australia wide.

With a continually growing database of over 2,500 registered earthmoving contractors, we offer a wide range of highly skilled and industry compliant operators and plant equipment to meet your needs.

Innovation has been our motivation since the beginning, and we see new systems and technology as key drivers in our continued success. Our technologies provide us with the ability to adjust and adapt in an ever-evolving industry.

Our successful involvement in a wide range of large-scale projects is a testament to our innovative technology, strong relationships, extensive industry knowledge and quality performance.

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