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Yea Vacationer Community Day0
on March 12, 2013 at 4:11 am / in Habitat for Humanity, Melbourne

Yea Vacationer Community Day

The Yea Heights Estate in Victoria is a development of 25 homes which are being built for families who were affected by the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. Arup has been [...]

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Supporting Desert Leadership Programs0
on February 8, 2013 at 4:06 am / in Desert Knowledge Australia

Supporting Desert Leadership Programs

Arup has been working with Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA) now for a number of years in particular supporting their Desert Leadership programs.  www.desertknowledge.com.au/ On 25th January 2013, DKA launched their [...]

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The Sanishop Project Phase 20
on January 25, 2013 at 5:35 am / in Singapore

The Sanishop Project Phase 2

Phase 2 of the SaniShop project involves the World Toilet Organisation (WTO) planting entrepreneurial hubs in India with the capability to provide sanitation hardware and services to the poor. It [...]

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Building a Resilient Community0
on January 25, 2013 at 4:54 am / in Engineers Without Borders Australia, Melbourne, Singapore

Building a Resilient Community

In early December, Edwin Fung (Melbourne), Daniel Lambert and Brendon Mills (both Singapore) from Arup visited the site of the Kathirweli Tsunami Reconstruction project in Sri Lanka. The goal of [...]

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Thirsty for Change0
on January 24, 2013 at 6:19 am / in Arup Cause, Singapore

Thirsty for Change

Located near the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Goma maintains a permanent population of approximately 400,000 people. The close proximity of the city to the Rwandan [...]

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Dialogues on Development 20120
on January 16, 2013 at 1:11 am / in Engineers Without Borders Australia, Sydney

Dialogues on Development 2012

At the end of 2012, Arup’s Lucy Keatinge participated in the Engineers Without Borders 16-day Study Tour of the Murray Darling Basin, which included visiting Traditional Owners and developing communities [...]

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Kidding Around for Camp Quality1
on January 9, 2013 at 3:14 am / in Brisbane

Kidding Around for Camp Quality

Throughout the last week of November in 2012, the Brisbane office Community Partnering Committee took the office back in time to rekindle the inner child of staff members – all [...]

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Yea Handover0
on December 19, 2012 at 4:59 am / in Habitat for Humanity, Melbourne

Yea Handover

Three years after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, two new homes were recently handed over to families at Yea in Victoria, Australia. Part of the Habitat for Humanity’s [...]

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Yea Blitz Build #30
on November 13, 2012 at 5:36 am / in Habitat for Humanity, Melbourne

Yea Blitz Build #3

Yea Blitz Build Number 3, Saturday, 27 October 2012 A team of 21 volunteers made up of Arup staff and friends, family and partners traveled to Yea on Saturday,  27 October [...]

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Creating a Future for Desert Regions0
on October 8, 2012 at 5:45 am / in Desert Knowledge Australia, Melbourne

Creating a Future for Desert Regions

As an initiative for our Community Partnering Program (CPP), our office in Melbourne hosted the Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA) Youth Desert Leadership Programme on 18 September, in which 12 secondary [...]

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