An event was attended on Thursday inaugurating Melbourne Polytechnic’s Future of Housing Construction Centre of Excellence, which is being built with $50 million of federal and state government support. The site at Heidelberg aims to address Australia’s housing challenges through training that keeps pace with the adoption of new technologies which draw from manufacturing, such…
Melbourne Polytechnic has signed Memoranda of Understanding with construction leaders, peak bodies and TAFEs on the co-design of a new innovation centre and national hub for training focussed on Modern Methods of Construction (MMC.) The signing was announced by state skills minister Gayle Tierney on Wednesday, and the centre aims to ensure training keeps pace…
KBR selected for Samsara factory Houston, US-headquartered engineering firm KBR has been announced as a partner on Samsara Eco’s plastics and textile enzymatic recycling plant, scheduled for completion in early 2028. Samsara is commercialising an enzymatic recycling technology for processing “some of the most common types of plastic and synthetic fibre – materials that have…