Ocean Grown Abalone Ltd has constructed the world’s largest privately-owned artificial reef, located within a 413Ha aquaculture lease in Flinders Bay, Augusta, Western Australia. The reef is used to host hatchery-reared juvenile abalone which are released onto the reef at 40-50mm average length and left to grow for 2-4 years before they are harvested for sale to export markets, with a focus on South East Asian markets.

Traffic Management (and associated signage) is a core safeguard for the public and work teams (Main Roads and Contractors). The current signs currently seem to blow down very frequently and so the idea is focused on how can the signs be made more stable and resist being blown over by wind gusts and passing vehicles, such as quad road trains.

During recent detailed inspections of timber bridges, concerns have been raised in relation to excessive movement of timber piles under traffic loads.  Bridge inspectors are regularly reporting that piles on timber bridges are “pumping” that is displacing vertically under each axle group as a heavy vehicle passes over the bridge.

Livestock wandering on to roads in pastoral regions, which span over 890,000km2 of Western Australia, can be a serious road safety issue for drivers, especially at dusk and dawn.  Pastoral leases are leases over Crown land, which gives the lessee the right to graze authorised livestock on the natural vegetation.

The project will look at a specific class of assets and the first task for the successful applicant is to consider different asset classes and make a reasoned selection e.g. chlorination systems. The project will involve the application of NLP tools so strong coding skills in Python and some machine learning and visualisation skills are required.