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Welcome from Peter Bowtell0
on October 13, 2011 at 5:00 am / in Uncategorized

Welcome from Peter Bowtell

Welcome to our Australasian Community Partnering Website – We hope you enjoy reading about the charitable activities we engage in around the region and the work that our strategic partners are undertaking.

Active engagement with humanitarian and charitable causes is a defining feature of our firm.

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Guiding the next generation of young leaders0
on October 4, 2011 at 11:23 pm / in Desert Knowledge Australia, Melbourne, Partnerships

Guiding the next generation of young leaders

On 22 September our Melbourne office hosted a 15-strong group of 15 year olds from Alice Springs schools as part of our community partnering work with Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA). [...]

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Extending a home for Cambodian orphans0
on September 20, 2011 at 2:28 am / in Melbourne, Projects

Extending a home for Cambodian orphans

Kampuchea House is an Australian-funded orphanage located approximately 40km from the town of Siem Reap and the majestic temples of Angkor. Money raised through fundraising activities in Australia goes towards [...]

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Short term build with great results0
on September 19, 2011 at 2:26 am / in Habitat for Humanity, Partnerships, Singapore

Short term build with great results

The Arup Singapore office recently sent a team of ten to take part in Habitat for Humanity’s Batam Build programme. The programme is aimed at building houses for families who [...]

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Water and power for a remote youth centre1
on September 19, 2011 at 1:00 am / in Adelaide, Community Partnering Panel, Projects

Water and power for a remote youth centre

Operation Flinders Foundation run 8 day, 100km wilderness adventure programs for at risk participants between the age of 14 and 18 years in the far northern Flinders Ranges, providing an [...]

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PIF PropertyBlitz Workabee1
on September 14, 2011 at 2:20 am / in Melbourne, Partnerships, Property Industry Foundation

PIF PropertyBlitz Workabee

Last month a handful of Arup volunteers took part in a Property Industry Foundation workabee. Our mission was to paint, sand, clean, scrape, dig and mulch our way through a run down home and its overgrown [...]

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Supporting volunteers to build houses in Nepal0
on September 12, 2011 at 12:55 am / in Brisbane, Habitat for Humanity, Melbourne, Partnerships, Projects, Singapore, Sydney

Supporting volunteers to build houses in Nepal

YouTube determined that the request did not contain proper authentication.(Video created be Habitat for Humanity. View more Habitat videos on youtube) Established in 1988, Habitat for Humanity Australia is a [...]

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Building a vision in an eco-sensitive environment1
on September 11, 2011 at 1:42 am / in Engineers Without Borders Australia, Melbourne, Partnerships, Projects

Building a vision in an eco-sensitive environment

Bana Yarralji Bubu (BYB) Aboriginal Corporation is a social enterprise organisation run by members of the Kuku Nyungkal clan who’s traditional lands encompass the environmentally sensitive Shipton’s Flat site surrounded by Queensland’s World Heritage Daintree region.

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Assessing flood damaged homes0
on August 23, 2011 at 5:27 am / in Emergency Architects Australia

Assessing flood damaged homes

During late December 2010 and early January 2011, significant and widespread flooding affected many areas of Queensland with three quarters of the state declared a disaster zone. The scale of [...]

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Better understanding earthquake engineering0
on August 23, 2011 at 5:03 am / in Christchurch Earthquake Engineering

Better understanding earthquake engineering

A severe 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand’s second-most populous city, on 22 February 2011. Striking at 12:51pm on a busy work day, its epicentre just 10 km south-east [...]

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