Blog
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AREA3 joins the larger BGIS Group
AREA3 has recently been acquired by BGIS, a global leader in the provision of facility management, project delivery, energy and sustainability, asset management, workplace advisory, and real estate services.
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Can Leadership be Taught?
Leadership is hard to define, but often referred to. After all, who doesn’t want to think of themselves as a leader? But is leadership something that’s inherent to someone’s personality? Or can it be taught?
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How Cloud Gaming will Change Data Centres
Cloud gaming refers to a remotely played games, streamed to a screen from a cloud storage facility. This differs significantly from four decades of in-home entertainment, where gamers would normally purchase a console, PC or mobile device that would provide
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Gideon van der Westhuizen joins AREA3 Consulting
Charles Penny, Managing Director of AREA3 Consulting, is excited to announce the engagement of Gideon van der Westhuizen as Director of AREA3 Consulting in Victoria.
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How to Promote Efficiencies in your Data Centre Build
In the fast-paced world of data centre construction, the programme is king. Coordinating the long lead times of specialist equipment with complex onsite construction and fit out methodologies is crucial to ensuring success.
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What is Operational Excellence?
What does operational excellence mean to you? And how does it differ from operations? I have often heard the question: What are operations? What benefits do operations add and what value do they bring to a business?"
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Are You the Lark, Owl or Third Bird?
Knowing whether you’re an early bird (or lark), owl, or somewhere in between (the third-bird) can help you optimise your productivity
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Happiness = Success, Not the Other Way Around
What does it mean to be happy in workplace? Are we setting ourselves up to fail? Many of my friends and colleagues discuss happiness
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AREA3 for International Women’s Day
The AREA3 teams in Melbourne and Sydney joined together to participate in the IWD, #balanceforbetter campaign. Together we took to social media to acknowledge the inequity
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AREA3 and Toyota Corporation Project Updates
AREA3 were engaged as the Project Manager and Superintendent for Toyota Corporation’s Altona Project since January 2018
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Jakarta Hotel Project Completion
The Ashley Sabang hotel is a 4 star hotel located in the heart of Jakarta. AREA3 were engaged as project managers for the new hotel
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Exciting Updates from AREA3 Innovation
AREA3 Innovation was been busy this month completing an audit for one of Australia’s largest financial institutions. Sustainability is such an important movement going into the future.
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AREA3 and Swinburne University
Swinburne University of Technology is a large and multi-campus institution with a mission to be a pre-eminent university in the Asia Pacific. To support its rapidly expanding position in the education market
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8 Ways to Make Your Workplace Safer
Workplace safety is an essential, but often overlooked part of our lives. It is easy to put on the back burner, but prevention is always much better than creating a retrospective fix. I attended a SAFETY workshop at the Sydney
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6 Ways to Make Your Office Zero Waste
Early this year, I took on my first role as an office administrator. Suddenly I became responsible for making decisions about supplies, waste and sustainability on behalf of an office full of people
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Could Tasmania be Australia’s Next Data Centre Hub?
With energy prices on the rise, and pressure on big business to go green, companies must look for smarter location options to build their sustainable infrastructure. This, coupled with the increasing temperatures across the globe
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The Foremost Value of Flexibility
Since joining the team at AREA3 last year, I have been thrust into multiple projects with a range of clients who have all faced their own challenges in achieving Project Delivery. It’s been a learning curve which I have relished,
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Staying on Top of Project Variations
The construction industry is booming again! This, coupled with the shortage of labour and the fear factor of being ‘Opal Towered’, it is no surprise that construction costs continue to rise in 2019. A rise in costs usually means tighter
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Is a completed project really COMPLETED?
Is it carrying out objectives or an overall successful project that defines completion? Simply finishing the project doesn’t mean that the project is successful