Shellharbour City Council, just south of Wollongong in NSW, is providing an excellent example to local businesses and councils around the country on how to reduce their environmental footprint simply by switching to energy-efficient lighting

Lighting for freeways is an essential part of roadway infrastructures, but is often taken for granted. But compare driving at night on an unlit country highway to a well-lit freeway and the value of street lighting becomes very apparent

Olex cable was installed as part of an upgrade to ensure the continuing operation of the four-lane Spit Bridge at Seaforth, NSW.

The building sector can and should play a role in achieving the deep greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that science tells us are necessary to combat the threat of global warming

Thirty years ago, few people knew anything about the dangers of carbon emissions. Today, the need to mitigate global warming by controlling man-made carbon emissions is probably the single most important issue we face as a global community

Emergency and exit lighting seems to be an orphan in the building industry - it's perceived as being neither part of the fire industry nor part of the electrical industry

With demand for home automation rising, more and more electrical contractors are being asked to install it. But virtually every home automation brand has its own protocol and specification - there's no local standard

The Bonython Primary School recently had a visit from the Minister for Education and Training, Andrew Barr, to applaud their move towards increased sustainability through the use of solar power

Last year, police all over the world were inundated with reports of theft of copper from areas as diverse as water pipes from buildings, electrical wiring from substations, conductors from railway lines and even bells from churches

Emergency lighting is an essential service that is quite often forgotten until an accident or catastrophe happens

Ethernet has played a long-term part in the networking of office PCs and peripherals, and is well proven in support of users for file sharing, printing and messaging to name but a few

An innovative electrical circuit isolation system is helping the National Australia Bank to expand its power system safely and efficiently while maintaining critical up time for its financial transaction processing centre

Process plants typically have hundreds of electric motors in them carrying out a wide range of activities. Depending on the situation, many such motors can be affected by stray currents that leak through generators and associated equipment

Built on the former site of the Mercury Lounge, Crown Live is a new direction for live music at the Crown entertainment complex in Melbourne

A new national study has highlighted the financial difficulty facing apprentices, with wage levels for many first-year apprentices below the poverty line and barely above the level of unemployment benefits