http://www.earthmover.com.au daily 1 2009-02-03T06:01:36Z http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2010/december/ships-get-bigger-to-match-expanded-panama-canal Apparently Japanese shipyards are building ships to take advantage of new size limits to come into force when an expanded Panama Canal opens in 2014. No publisher stephb News Print Edition 2011-01-05T05:26:36Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2010/newswire/november/november-25th/other-top-stories/ships-get-bigger-to-match-expanded-panama-canal Apparently Japanese shipyards are building ships to take advantage of new size limits to come into force when an expanded Panama Canal opens in 2014. No publisher stephb News Weekly Top Stories 2010-11-25T03:56:36Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2010/october/september-a-good-month-for-women-in-construction-1 Efforts to encourage more women into construction and engineering took a big step forward in September when 26 year old engineer Jillian Kilby won the 2010 Young Engineer of the Year in the Sydney Division of the Engineering Excellence Awards. No publisher stephb News Print Edition 2010-11-14T23:22:50Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2010/newswire/november/november-11th/trimble-convenes-for-2800-in-las-vegas About 2800 surveyors, earthmoving contractors, machine control specialists and equipment retailers, gathered in Las Vegas, Nevada on Monday (Tuesday in Australia) for the annual three day Trimble Dimensions convention and exhibition. No publisher stephb Weekly Top Stories 2010-11-25T00:30:54Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2010/newswire/august/august-26th/dial-before-you-dig-30-days-notice-is-not-required Our lead item for the Newswire last week, created some concern with readers judging by your reactions. It revealed that News South Wales legislation that came into force on July 1, required practically anyone doing serious excavations including farmers digging postholes, to make a request to Dial Before You Dig about underground services likely to be encountered, “not earlier than 30 days before the work commenced.” No publisher stephb News Weekly Top Stories 2010-08-26T01:19:48Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2010/august/pump-failures-go-to-court-uncontested-1 No publisher stephb Print Edition 2010-08-20T04:22:50Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2010/july/some-lessons-in-employee-appreciation Towards the end of June I spent a few days promoting the magazine at Primex, an agricultural and civil contracting show at Casino, on the NSW north coast. As always at such an event, you meet an interesting cross section of readers and potentially new readers and hear their stories. No publisher stephb Print Edition 2010-08-20T00:37:34Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2010/newswire/march/march-25th/reflections-on-a-weekend-in-a-malaysian-quarry I had the pleasure of joining in Kuala Lumpur last weekend, about 300 Sandvik distributors and customers, from what the company calls Western Asia. Roughly that takes in nearly everything from Israel to China, including Australia and New Zealand. No publisher stephb News Weekly Top Stories 2010-03-25T02:19:31Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2010/newswire/march/march-18th/water-a-major-issue-in-sa-elections I was delighted to hear Colin Pitman interviewed by Tony Eastley, as the lead item on ABC’s AM on Tuesday, about his work in detoxifying considerable quantities of stormwater being fed into Adelaide’s industrial water supply. No publisher stephb Weekly Top Stories 2010-03-17T04:47:56Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2010/newswire/february/february-11th/other-top-stories/equipment-monitoring-can-be-tricky I was talking monitoring systems at a party earlier this week, with a man who sells them, mainly to transport companies. He said in Britain the approach of management to implementing monitoring systems, is to say straight out to employees, we are fitting these to your vehicles to weed the crooks from the company. No publisher stephb Weekly Top Stories 2010-02-10T21:50:11Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2010/newswire/january/january-21st/other-top-stories/germanys-face-is-more-than-a-veneer Lonely Planet says Germany is more than Mercedes Benzes and shampooed poodles. Indeed it is. Having just spent most of the last week in the Bavarian capital city of Munich to attend a media preview for the forthcoming bauma (see news item), it is easy I suppose to make conclusions that maybe don't apply to the rest of the country. But here goes. No publisher stephb News Weekly Top Stories 2010-01-20T21:51:59Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2009/weekly-newswire/december/december-17th/employee-share-plan-drives-contractor-to-25-annual-compound-growth For every year of its 28 years in business, Perth based company Ertech Pty Ltd, has recorded 25% compound growth. But founder and principal Jim Giumelli, said in a toolbox session at the CCF’s national conference in the WA capital called Hand it On or Hand it Over: “I don’t think we’re going to do it this year. However we haven’t made a loss yet and I don’t intend to.” No publisher stephb 2009-12-15T23:25:49Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2009/weekly-newswire/november/november-26th/mack-trucks2019-weapons-of-mass-construction-take-sydney-by-storm Volvo-owned Mack Trucks, staged a media day at Sydney’s Olympic Park yesterday, titled Weapons of Mass Construction. No publisher stephb 2009-11-26T01:14:23Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2009/november/perth-conference-an-unqualified-success The Civil Contractors Federation's annual conference is over for another year and very successful it was too. No publisher stephb Print Edition 2009-11-20T00:19:40Z Blog Entry http://www.earthmover.com.au/news/2009/weekly-newswire/november/november-19th/arm-loss-led-to-a-safety-role-at-melbourne-recycler A man who lost one arm and part of his shoulder, in an accident at a quarry near Melbourne two years ago, came back to work earlier this month. No publisher David Palmer 2009-11-19T04:20:35Z Blog Entry