Engineers Australia and the Australian Constructors Association (ACA) have joined forces to conduct the 2015 Infrastructure Industry Leaders' Forum in Melbourne on 14 May 2015. [ + ]

Registrations are now open for the Australian Clean Energy Summit 2015 to be held at the Hilton Sydney from 15 to 16 July. [ + ]

Australian consumers now have a $10 billion annual mobile phone bill. Service providers are understandably focused on wooing high-spending, data-hungry smartphone users, but there's a long-forgotten group of traditional mobile users with little interest in touch screens, apps and 4G networks. They make the odd call, send the odd text and quietly pay telcos over $1.7 billion a year, the latest telecommunications data from Roy Morgan Research shows.

Schneider Electric has announced that Rowan Heinrich and Claire Quy from The University of Western Australia are among the 12 teams that qualified for the finals of Go Green in the City 2015, a global student competition organised by the Group. [ + ]

The Australian Financial Security Authority has released the personal insolvency activity statistics for the March quarter 2015 and the news is good. [ + ]

Forgetting your keys or ID card may no longer lock you out of your work building or any other gate with secure access, if you have your smartphone on you. [ + ]

Much has been written and debated about smart meters as they have hit the market here and around the world - health and security issues among them - but the government is firm in its belief of their benefits as they "better inform" consumers on energy consumption, according to the recently released Energy White Paper.

The UK-based Road Safety Academy GB has launched a new app that enables drivers to calculate roughly when the alcohol they have drunk will have passed through their body. The 'Morning After Calculator' aims to help assess whether motorists are potentially still over the limit after a night out. [ + ]

Revised workplace health and safety (WHS) laws address the historical ambiguity surrounding contracted workers. Following a review of the existing legislation, which began in 2011, the Australian Government provided clarification on outsourcing jobs to workers who operate their own business, seek placement through a staffing firm or otherwise manage their commercial terms. [ + ]

Treotham Australia has been appointed the exclusive Australian and New Zealand distributor for Euchner's range of safety interlock switches, safety relays, enabling switches, evaluation modules, MGB products, non-contact magnetic coding and RFID coding technologies. [ + ]

ABB has won orders worth over $100 million to supply converter transformers and components including wall bushings and circuit breakers for the Lingzhou-Shaoxing ultrahigh-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission link in China. [ + ]

The extension of Shanghai's state power grid will be supported by a new 500 kV XLPE (cross-linked polyethylene) cable system.

An Asia-Pacific alliance has announced that it will provide vendor finance to organisations for Powerstar's electrical energy products.

In an apparent case of 'do as I say, not as I do', Orix Australia's chief executive is allegedly implicated in an incident being widely reported as one of Australia's biggest corporate scandals. Orix Australia is part of the Japan-based Orix Group. [ + ]

Viewpoint Construction Software has acquired Sydney-based Jobpac, a provider of construction software solutions to the Australian and New Zealand construction industry for more than 25 years. Combining Jobpac's strong team of construction software professionals with Viewpoint's organisation and advanced product portfolio creates a significant market leader with significant resources for customer service, support and new product development.