In Australia’s north, the Mobile Control and Reporting Centre at RAAF Base Darwin holds responsibility to ‘prepare for, conduct and sustain effective deployable air surveillance and air battle management in the Unit’s designated area of responsibility’1. The unit’s simulation and communication assets are distributed across multiple defence sites.
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The recommencement of critical infrastructure in Queensland sends a powerful signal to the state’s residents of its recovery phase, following on from COVID-19. Powerlink’s decision to recommence the $67 million works across three key projects will support the creation of around 150 jobs1.
We’ve been asking leaders within our asset management community for their best asset management quick tips and tricks, and here is what Mike Schulzer from our Canberra Chapter had to say:
When the world was in the grip of the horror of WWII, Clyde Engineering, based in Sydney, rolled out the first of its C38 steam engine, the 3801.The 38 class were the last coal-fuelled steam engine to be manufactured for NSW fleet of rail stock. From 1943, the 3801 rumbled along rail tracks, the familiar and now-nostalgic trail of steam and smoke chuffing from its chimney, to commute passengers to and from capital cities, and townships in between. Hobart and Darwin were the only capital cities to not greet the 3801. In 1967, the steam engine was decommissioned from active NSW rail service, in favour of diesel engines.
We’ve been asking leaders within our asset management community for their best asset management quick tips and tricks, and here is what Steve Doran from our Sydney Chapter had to say: