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June 5, 2018

Sydney’s Sustainability team receives boost

Wood & Grieve Engineers (WGE) recently welcomed Le Han Tan, who joins the Sydney Sustainability team as a Project Engineer. Le Han brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the group, having …


May 25, 2018

Optus Stadium wins national construction award

Optus Stadium, and the surrounding Stadium Park, was last named the 2018 winner of the Australian Construction Achievement Award (ACAA). Announced at an event in Melbourne, Optus Stadium beat out fiv …


May 25, 2018

Finding out what lies beneath

A meeting of the minds was held recently with Roads Australia hosting a single table dinner in Sydney to discuss Australia’s subsurface utilities. Individuals from across Australia were invited to the …


May 24, 2018

Density done well

Density done well means working closely with the local community. This is the lesson to learn from Blackburne Aria Swanbourne, WA’s RLB Development of the Year. Building owner and developer Blackburne …


May 22, 2018

Solar solutions enjoying time in the sun

As the famous poem so eloquently states, we love our sunburnt country – a place which, on average, receives between six and 11 hours of sunlight per day. It’s also no surprise that Australia’s average …


May 14, 2018

Barangaroo South big winner at PCA Awards

Barangaroo South has emerged as the big winner from the 2018 Property Council of Australia/Rider Levett Bucknall Innovation & Excellence Awards, which were held last Friday evening (11 May) in Syd …


May 10, 2018

Parkerville charity’s $25m historic Midland move

Australia’s largest child advocacy centre is being built on a heritage site at Midland’s historic railway workshops. Wood & Grieve Engineers (WGE) is excited to be working with our client Pindan C …


May 9, 2018

PCA Awards this Friday

Wood & Grieve Engineers (WGE) would like to congratulate our clients who have been named finalists for the 2018 Property Council of Australia (PCA) Innovation & Excellence Awards. Managed by t …


May 7, 2018

Preparing for the future: Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are here. With some two million EVs already on the roads worldwide, they are increasingly becoming part of the discussion regarding Australia’s transportation. Whether EVs wil …


April 27, 2018

WGE nurtures young talent

WGE’s Talent Development Program (TDP) was conceived by CEO José Granado five years ago. The program was introduced in response to strong growth across the organisation, to enable progress to be measu …


April 19, 2018

WGE join the 500 Women in Property Launch

I’m committed to shaping my career in the building and property sector, and becoming that senior woman others reach out to Last month a number of female Wood & Grieve Engineers (WGE) employees too …


April 18, 2018

Celebrating World Heritage Day

Everyday people all over the world celebrate their cultural heritage, simply by living their lives in a way that embodies who they are and where they came from. But one day a year is set aside to cel …


April 13, 2018

New-look Melbourne - As good as a holiday

They say change is as good as a holiday and at Wood & Grieve Engineers (WGE) we’re always looking at ways to improve and adapt innovative ways for the benefit of our clients. But that thinking als …


April 10, 2018

Networking – Everyone starts somewhere

Future Directions provides a platform for emerging leaders within the property industry to future develop professional skills sets. Wood & Grieve Engineers has been a long term supporter and spons …


April 9, 2018

Reality Engineering: Visualising the Future

Engineering concepts to the layperson can often seem intangible and, let’s face it, relatively dull! To the non-engineer, navigating industry-specific buzz-words, complex drawings and associated scien …


April 6, 2018

Word perfect

The new Perth Library is the first major civic building to be constructed in the Western Australian capital since the city’s Concert Hall was built nearly 45 years ago. Part of the redeveloped Cathed …


April 6, 2018

Subsurface Utility Engineering as a Disruptive Innovation

By definition, Disruptive Innovation is “a term in the field of business administration, which refers to an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing m …


April 5, 2018

Top three transport tips for a sustainable city

Imagine turning the kinetic energy from pedestrians into people power? This is just one cutting-edge example of sustainable transport in action, says James Brownlie, transport specialist with Wood …


April 4, 2018

Day in the Life of Engineers: Part 3

You can guarantee that no day will be the same as an engineer Quentin WilsonWGE Employee 19 years Today is Global day of the Engineer (4 April) – an important event on Wood & Grieve Engineers’ (W …


April 4, 2018

Day in the Life of Engineers: Part 2

The scope is endless; it’s an exciting time to be involved in the industry Mike PriorWGE Employee 16 years Today is Global day of the Engineer (4 April) – an important event on Wood & Grieve Engi …