Emesent is opening its Brisbane headquarters on 20 August for a free National Science Week evening (5:30–9:00pm), offering students, industry and the public hands-on access to its autonomous mapping technology for “the world’s most inaccessible places”. In partnership with Surveyors Australia, the event will showcase Emesent’s drone-based LiDAR and autonomy stack used for GPS-denied underground mines and other confined environments. For mining engineers and surveyors, it is a rare chance to interrogate hardware–software workflows, data outputs and practical deployment constraints directly with the development team.

PT Hengjaya Mineralindo has deployed Datamine’s CCLAS laboratory information management system at its Hengjaya open-pit laterite nickel mine in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, to tighten control of saprolite and limonite assay data. The system centralises sample tracking, results validation and reporting across the nickel laboratory workflow, reducing manual data entry and the risk of transcription errors. More reliable, time-stamped laboratory data supports tighter grade control, reconciliation and ore blending decisions for the Nickel Industries Limited subsidiary.

Future Homes Hub has released version 3 of its Whole Life Carbon Assessment tool for new homes, aligned with the RICS Whole Life Carbon Assessment Professional Standard (2nd edition) and incorporating sector-specific defaults, assumptions and methodologies. The 2026 update extends the Conventions to cover site infrastructure, adding standard scopes for site preparation, estate roads, utilities and off-plot works that were previously a “data black hole”. For developers and civil engineers, this enables more comprehensive, comparable embodied carbon reporting across multi-site housing schemes and clearer allocation of infrastructure emissions.