• Kurilpa – A ‘world first’ for Brisbane.
• From education to employment the pathway is clear.
• Ausenco hot in Chile
• Commercialisation Set to Boom
• CBio completes A$10 million capital raising

 

Kurilpa – A ‘world first’ for Brisbane.

22/12/09 - BTP Exchange Newsletter Edition 21

Brisbane’s newest bridge, The Kurilpa Bridge, has been successfully completed and is the world’s first tensegrity pedestrian bridge. With a project value over $2.2 million, Stowe Australia undertook the Electrical and Communication services on the bridge, investing over 10,000 man hours to complete the project for Baulderstone QLD. The project was finished on time and within budget, adding to the impressive number of projects by Stowe.  More

From education to employment the pathway is clear.

22/12/09 - BTP Exchange Newsletter Edition 21

Level One by Zernike tenant Graduate Programs Australia has entered into a new partnership that will make it easier, cheaper and faster for employers to access graduate skills and talent. GPA is the owner and operator of e2e.net – ‘the education to employment network’. e2e.net works in partnership with education and training providers and aims to better prepare their students for the transition from education to employment, and secondly, to provide employers with direct access to skilled staff.  More

Ausenco hot in Chile

23/11/09 Brisbane Business News, Edition Nov 09 - Jan 2010,  P26

Brisbane engineering services company Ausenco Limited continues to net contacts in South America, recently announcing an $8 million construction management deal with Minera Esperanza in Chile. Ausenco CEO Zimi Meka, says the contract follows previous work on the US $1.9 billion Esperanza copper project in the region of Antofagasta. Other contracts are expected in the coming months. "They are repeat clients we've been working with in excess of five years and on this particular project we've worked on the feasibility project through to engineering services and now construction management, " says Meka. More

Commercialisation Set to Boom

27/10/09- AIC Media Release

After several years of uncertainty surrounding the outlook for commercialisation of new ideas and research in Australia, the future of commercialisation has recovered strongly and is again showing its potential to play a valuable role in national economic development. In the past year, both the University of Queensland and CSIRO have each recognised incoming royalty payments exceeding $100M, for their successful licensing of the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil and IEEE 802.11 wireless networking technologies respectively. Both revenue streams are “home runs” for the institutions, and will be used to help fund new research and development that will further strengthen the national interest and support the development of Australia’s scientific endeavours.More

CBio completes A$10 million capital raising

25/10/09- Media Release CBIO

CBio Limited, an Australian-based drug development company, today announced the successful completion of a A$10 million capital raising ahead of a planned share market listing later in 2009. The capital raising was underwritten to A$6 million by financial services house Novus Capital Limited which acted as Financial Advisor and Underwriter and will be advising CBio in the IPO process. More