Douglas Partners at Ecoforum 2020
Douglas Partners’ Paul Moritz and John Russell recently presented at Ecoforum 2020. Paul is a Principal Scientist (Melbourne) with nearly 40 years’ experience as an industrial and environmental chemist. Paul’s presentation discussed the likelihood that contaminants commonly suspected of being present in surface fill are actually present when samples are analysed. The paper demonstrated that […]
Sydney to become home to world’s tallest ‘hybrid timber’ tower
Atlassian plans to build the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower for its new headquarters next to Central Station, reshaping the skyline at the southern end of Sydney’s CBD and we are pleased to be able to contribute geotechnical and environmental consulting services on this exciting development project that will become the centrepiece of the NSW […]
Douglas Partners Celebrates IWD 2020 & Embraces #EachforEqual
The team at Douglas Partners is committed to recognising, respecting and celebrating diversity and inclusion by enriching a culture that supports and encourages all employees. We acknowledge that diversity and inclusion contributes to successful innovation in an ever-changing world by recognising and providing solutions from different perspectives. Simultaneously, this provides the opportunity for all staff […]
Douglas Partners 32nd Annual Technical Seminar
Recently we held the 32nd annual Douglas Partners Technical Seminar at Sydney University. The theme for this years’ Technical Seminar was “Adding Value with Our Values”. The primary purpose of the Technical Seminar, as suggested by its name is to provide technical training for our consulting and key laboratory staff. This includes a variety of […]
World GIS Day 2019
Today is GIS Day. GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems and is increasingly important in todays interconnected world. Smart phones, which most of us use, are location aware and loaded with GIS software such as Google Maps. We wanted to recognise the creative base maps available from Stamen Design. Here we see their Watercolor map […]
DP Environmental Scientist Inspires Students at UNSW
Nicola Warton, an Environmental Scientist from our Sydney office, was invited to speak at the UNSW Open Day recently. She spoke to a lecture theatre of over 200 prospective students and their families about her career as an environmental scientist and her work with us, expanding on some of the opportunities a science degree can […]
Victoria’s Recycled Roads
We think this is a great initiative by VicRoads and Sustainability Victoria to utilise recycled materials to build our roads. This is one way to take sustainable action and responsibility to reduce the environmental impact of glass waste. With an increasing push globally to recycle waste material, we recognise that with a footprint which extends […]
Headspace Push Up Challenge 2019
Congratulations and a big thank you to all the Douglas Partners staff, family and friends who participated in the Headspace Push Up Challenge 2019. Each athlete was set the challenge of doing a total of 3128 push ups over 21 days. The DP Push-Up Team completed a combined total of an amazing 101,112 push ups […]
Our Rock Mechanics team assisting at new office development in Sydney
We are pleased to be working with John Holland on the new office development being undertaken at 275 George Street, Sydney. Our highly experienced Rock Mechanics team, headed by one of our Principals, Hugh Burbidge, are providing geotechnical construction services including face mapping and inspections in thrust faulted rock conditions, design of temporary face and […]
Managing Director wins 2019 Diversity Champion Award
We are pleased to share the news that our Managing Director, Will Wright has won 2019 Diversity Champion in the Hunter Diversity Awards this afternoon. Will didn’t even know he had been nominated until he was named a finalist! In winning Will said “… it was a team effort at Douglas Partners to make the […]
