The Brisbane Truck Show is on again. Held every two years, the event is organised by the Commercial Vehicle Industry Association of Queensland (CVIAQ) and is the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the premier event in Australia for the transport industry and showcases the latest in heavy vehicles, technology, engineering and innovation.

ABB has won orders worth about $30 million from Casa dos Ventos, a renewables company in Brazil. [ + ]

Solar engineering company Global Sustainable Energy Solutions (GSES) Australia has signed a memorandum of understanding with a German testing and certification body to assess the bankability of large-scale solar power systems in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. [ + ]

World Safety Day is celebrated on the 28th of April around the world as a day where the occupational health and safety of workers is recognised. Workers, employers and governments take this day to remember and prioritise the importance of a health and safety culture.

Caulfield Racecourse has installed a massive 319.5 m² display, with a pixel density of 10,000 dots/m². [ + ]

With the federal government's recently released Energy White Paper (EWP) laying out a framework for the future of the National Electricity Market (NEM), electricity generators, networks and retailers can expect to see changes to the policy and regulatory environment. [ + ]

The peak national body for Australia's energy networks claims a new Senate Inquiry report may see higher energy costs for consumers as well as increased regulatory risk. [ + ]

Free Wi-Fi 'hotspots' are now everywhere, including cafes, shopping centres, hotels and many other public locations. Laboratories Credit Union (LCU) has issued a warning for users: just because it is free and is provided by a respected organisation, it does not mean that it is safe. When you use public Wi-Fi, it makes it easy for scammers to hack your mobile devices or infect them with viruses. [ + ]

Engineers Australia and the Australian Constructors Association (ACA) have joined forces to conduct the 2015 Infrastructure Industry Leaders' Forum in Melbourne on 14 May 2015. [ + ]

Registrations are now open for the Australian Clean Energy Summit 2015 to be held at the Hilton Sydney from 15 to 16 July. [ + ]

Australian consumers now have a $10 billion annual mobile phone bill. Service providers are understandably focused on wooing high-spending, data-hungry smartphone users, but there's a long-forgotten group of traditional mobile users with little interest in touch screens, apps and 4G networks. They make the odd call, send the odd text and quietly pay telcos over $1.7 billion a year, the latest telecommunications data from Roy Morgan Research shows.

Schneider Electric has announced that Rowan Heinrich and Claire Quy from The University of Western Australia are among the 12 teams that qualified for the finals of Go Green in the City 2015, a global student competition organised by the Group. [ + ]

The Australian Financial Security Authority has released the personal insolvency activity statistics for the March quarter 2015 and the news is good. [ + ]

Much has been written and debated about smart meters as they have hit the market here and around the world - health and security issues among them - but the government is firm in its belief of their benefits as they "better inform" consumers on energy consumption, according to the recently released Energy White Paper.

Forgetting your keys or ID card may no longer lock you out of your work building or any other gate with secure access, if you have your smartphone on you. [ + ]