RBG Director wins prestigious award at MEED Awards 2022

Paul Mullett, RBG’s Global Engineering & Technology Director, has won Engineer of the Year at the MEED Projects Awards 2022. Last night, Paul won both the National and MENA-wide award for Engineer of the Year, across all sectors of the construction industry. The judges said Paul won the award due to his leadership across the Engineering & Technology space, not only within RBG but across the industry in general with his thought leadership and involvement in various panels. The rollout of REVEAL, Magpie and various other initiatives have all been under the leadership of Paul and the highly talented E&T team within RBG, and the award captures the efforts of all involved in these initiatives.

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International Womens Day

A day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, as well as a call to action for accelerating equality.

Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day.

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New Beginnings in an RBG Engineered Office

Welcome to the new Robert Bird Group (RBG) headquarters on Level 8 of Jubilee Place in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane! RBG is very excited to have established our home in this remarkable new building which our engineers designed and consulted on right through construction. Thanks to a massive team effort we are now unpacked and settled into the thoughtfully designed and furnished space.

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RBG Reveal is now available online!

Reveal is a Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) interactive platform that enables project stakeholders to experience and collaborate on built assets that are either completed or under construction in a virtual environment. We are excited to announce that RBG Reveal is now available online via our new portal!

RBG is committed to ensuring our clients have access to industry-leading visualisation technologies for the best possible project outcomes. Embracing the best digital tools to deliver the VDC process, we have been working hard behind the scenes on our latest VDC initiative, RBG Reveal Online.

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We are serious about industrial decarbonisation

We have grown our commitment to industrial decarbonisation by joining Climate Group‘s SteelZero initiative, alongside our pledge to ConcreteZero back in October 2022.
SteelZero members pledge to use 50% low-emission steel by 2030, which sets a clear pathway to using 100% net zero steel by 2050. Our prior commitment to ConcreteZero is our promise to use 30% low-emission concrete by 2025 and 50% by 2030, with a long-term target of using 100% net zero concrete by 2050. We are excited to be able to influence the design and use of concrete and steel across a wide range of built environment projects.

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The women leading Robert Bird Group’s specialist teams!

At Robert Bird Group, powerful women are breaking through the glass ceiling and striving for success, with greater motivation than ever before. Inspiring females are proving to themselves and others around them, that they have the skills, knowledge, experience and passion to lead and develop teams on some of the world’s most ambitious projects. Combining positive stakeholder engagement, adept commercial management of resources and specialist technical prowess, these women offer bright perspective to RBG’s service offering. Our proactive Diversity & Inclusion Committee, working closely with the People & Culture Team and supported by the Leadership Group, has enabled a development platform that focuses on opportunities for women. With this platform we envisage sustained growth in female staff numbers, across all levels, for the foreseeable future. Below each gives her own insight as to what is it like to be a woman working in the construction industry.

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