Back to NewsInertian Insight – July 2023
OUR PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
Pacific Golf Club
It’s been an exciting month as the redeveloped retirement village at Carindale takes shape, with the celebratory stage of topping out. It’s been a pleasure to work alongside Icon, in creating this amazing aged care facility, complete with 52 luxury apartments, golf course, club house and all the services to make retirement living a dream.
Kingsford Tce
Anticipation is growing as Kingsford Terrace’s “Taylor” building at Corinda, is nearing the exciting milestone of being topped out. With the completed construction of the two adjacent senior living buildings, Inertia’s Team Lead, Kurt Annand reflected on the progression of the overall development, “Having been involved with the planning, design, and construction on all three buildings, it has been great to see the concepts and hard work come to fruition. Being able to incorporate the lessons learned across the three projects and build on the relationships made with a consistent design and delivery team has been a real pleasure.”
Parkside Carindale
Project Announcement! We are proud to be working with Aveo Retirement and Kearney Architecture delivering structural engineering services on Stage 4 of the luxury Parkside Carindale.
Parkside Residents experience an aged care community lifestyle unmatched in retirement living. The complex boasts an array of community facilities for residents, arbour links between buildings, landscaped gardens and is conveniently located across the road from one of the best shopping malls in Brisbane. The new Vista Residences building will offer undercover car parking, 100 apartments over 9 levels, each with a private balcony or terrace overlooking adjacent parklands.
AT OUR HEADQUARTERS
Scott shares, “At our core, we are supporting projects of increasing size, scale, and complexity; projects we have and will deliver with our own unique thinking, passion, and teamwork. From new opportunities in health, education and aged care, to increasingly complex and large civil and structural projects across subdivisions and high-rise developments.”
Welcome Sheldon Whitworth - Graduate Civil Engineer
A very warm welcome to our Graduate Civil Engineer, Sheldon Whitworth.
Welcome Kaushiv Charan - Civil Engineer
We would like to introduce our newest Inertian, Kaushiv Charan; a talented Civil Engineer who has joined the ranks of the Land & Water team.
INERTIA ELEVATE SESSION
Make Everyday Changes to Make a Difference Everyday
This month we had the pleasure of hosting another wonderful Elevate session, with our facilitator, Cathryn Lloyd from Maverick Minds. The theme was, “Make Everyday Changes to Make a Difference Everyday”, and through using an Open Space process, Cathryn guided team members by openly discussing several topics they were willing to share, learn more about and act on.
The feelings in the room were unanimous, and it was said, “I know my topic wasn’t a major one, but it is important, and this seemed the right time to have the conversation across the organisation, and its created much more clarity for me in my work.”
Public declarations of “everyday changes” were made and we look forward to seeing these commitments in action as we work towards making a difference, “everyday”.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Come Work with Us!
Looking to work on interesting projects across diverse sectors with an outstanding team and great culture?
At Inertia, we’re going from strength to strength and are recruiting for roles across civil and structural engineering and design. On offer is a competitive remuneration package, a fantastic Brisbane city fringe location, flexible working arrangements and the opportunity to bring your skills to interesting and challenging projects. If you are looking to take the next step in your career and want to learn more about the opportunities available, contact us.
INERTIANS OUT AND ABOUT
Big Match
Last week, our Inertians, Kurt Annand, Jed Michel, Joshua Falco, Luke Walton, Scott Clements and Sean Stacey went toe-to toe in an epic Big Match lawn bowls battle with our partners at McNab, giving an opportunity to show off some skills in good spirits and healthy competition. Not only to grab the title, grab some rays but also grab some cash for a worthy cause.
We are proud to support Andrew Corbin, Dan George and the amazing team at McNab who have already raised a whopping $11,227 for the 2023 Variety Bash, a fundraiser for Variety – the Children’s Charity of Queensland. Let’s help them to reach their $20,000 goal, and support the kids who are sick, disadvantaged or living with a disability get the assistance they deserve.
We would also like to thank Mitchell Hayne, Carl Garner, Mathew Petchell, Jake Worrall, George Dunn, Ebonie Fox, Vanja Klisura, Dan Craven, and Thomas Wang for joining in the fun!
Inertia's INWED Events
INWED celebrations were a hit in the Inertia kitchen as we hosted PWIP’s Winter get-together on the eve of ‘International Women in Engineering Day’, followed by the fun filled #makesafetyseen Lunch the following day.
Inertia’s Director, Emma Clements inspired us all, as she shared personal experiences with the purpose of empowering women in a male dominated industry. A huge shout out to Stacey Reibelt and her assistant, Priscila Nunes, who championed the lunch event and lastly, thank you, to all those who got involved in celebrating Women in Engineering!
INWED - QMCA Breakfast
Amongst the fun back at the office, was a not to be missed event hosted by QMCA and NAWIC QLD. Inertian’s Emma Clements, Honeylette Ferolin, Callie Omlid and Daniela Nino Carrasco slipped away to join 500 others at the INWED breakfast.
A wonderfully inspiring event, Dawn Watt – Coffey Testing and Regan Crooks – Laing O’Rourke shared their career journey, their inspirations and the mentors who have supported their development, as well as their thoughts on how we can make the industry more attractive to women. An amazing morning that highlighted the contribution women make to every construction and infrastructure project in Queensland.