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Procurement high priority for hospital project

Renovations to the Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital have brought together Australia’s leading building materials companies, with procurement placed as a high priority for the project. “The needs of hospitals are unique compared to other commercial projects. Using robust, long lasting materials with high impact performance that needed minimal maintenance was a priority,” remarked project engineer […]

February 23, 2011

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PMI to host Biopharmaceutical Project Management Conference

The Project Management Institute’s Pharmaceutical Community of Practice (PMI Pharma CoP) will hold its 6th Annual Biopharmaceutical Project Management Conference in North Carolina, USA, this year. The conference, held over 7-9 March 2011, will look at the transformation of the pharmaceutical industry with regard to operational and regulatory issues and the role of project managers […]

February 23, 2011

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Airport Link project celebrates tunnel breakthrough

Queensland’s Airport Link project reached a milestone when ‘Rocksy’, the first of two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) broke through to the 23-metre wide purpose built cavern deep underground at Wooloowin, marking the halfway point of its 2.5-kilometre journey to Lutwyche. “The tunnelling teams have achieved good progress with the TBMs travelling at a rate of […]

February 22, 2011

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Lean business experts in New Zealand conference

Experts from some of the world’s most successful companies will converge in New Zealand for the Asia-Pacific Lean Business and Accounting Summit, to be held in Auckland over 12-13 April 2011. The summit will focus on the lean business model and the competitive advantages it offers to organisations, headed by leading experts in the field […]

February 22, 2011

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TAFE NSW to train Telstra project managers

TAFE NSW and Telstra Operations have entered into a new partnership that will see the education provider supplier skills training for the telecommunications corporation. TAFE NSW and Telstra signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this month, and launched the first project under their strategic alliance—a joint Information Technology and Telecommunications Engineering Qualification Accreditation Program—with the […]

February 17, 2011

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Silver Chain on Management of Portfolios guidance panel

Western Australian medical care agency Silver Chain represented Australia on a recent Management of Portfolios guidance review panel, hosted by the UK’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC). The publication is the latest of OGC’s internationally recognised standards series for effective program and project management. “As a not-for-profit organisation charged with providing services to those in […]

February 17, 2011

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Protegic appoints Victoria state manager

Management consulting company Protegic has appointed a new state manager for Victoria. Roberta Kerr, formerly a business solutions manager of special networks engineering for Telstra, will work directly with Protegic managing director David Thompson to position the Victorian business for ongoing growth. Kerr has extensive general management, project and program management experience and will be […]

February 11, 2011

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Mining and engineering sectors face severe skills shortage

International recruitment consultancy Robert Walters has revealed that the mining and engineering sectors will both face severe skills shortages as the increasing number of large projects compete for talent. Results from Robert Walters’ annual Global Salary Survey illustrated a rise in recruitment activity and salaries across several industries in 2010, due to ongoing growth and […]

February 11, 2011

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