As we mark Rail Safety Week 2020, our teams are taking the opportunity to reflect on health and safety at a unique time in our industry, when the COVID-19 pandemic is requiring a more rigorous and focused approach to work health and safety, while we continue to deliver some of Australia’s largest rail projects.

SMEC has assisted Great Southern Waste Technologies (GSWT) in gaining environmental approval for its proposed Waste-to-Energy (WtE) facility located in Dandenong, Victoria, Australia.

In the second edition of SMEC NEWS for 2020, we share key updates across our global business and project portfolio.

Leveraging its global expertise in dams and hydropower projects, design and engineering firm SMEC has been engaged by contractor Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) to provide detailed engineering and project management services on the 500MW (4 x 125MW) Kundah Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project in India.

Each year, in partnership with the University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Design (MSD), SMEC opens an internship for three Masters students.

SMEC’s Social Development team in Africa are celebrating the successful completion of our role in providing third-party validation for the Government of Malawi’s Skills Development Project.

SMEC has commenced site investigations for the Warringah Freeway Upgrade, part of the multi-billion-dollar Western Harbour Tunnel project by Transport for NSW (TfNSW).

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Logashri Sewnarain to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SMEC South Africa, effective August 1 2020, following the retirement of Kostas Rontiris.

Despite being the world’s second richest country in terms of inland water resources, Nepal still has enormous untapped potential for hydropower development, thanks to its many perennial rivers that flow down from the high Himalayan Mountains towards low-lying plains in the south and into India.

Having successfully completed the concept design on the METRONET Denny Avenue Level Crossing Removal Project in Perth, SMEC has been appointed to the detailed design by Downer EDI who are the Design and Construct (D&C) contractors.