Umow Lai shaping next generation of female engineers
Umow Lai was pleased to welcome an all-female group of students from Presentation College Windsor to our Engineering Students @Work Program. During the week-long placement, students undertook a brief to design a school eLearning and [...]
Umow Lai continues winning streak
Umow Lai is proud to once again be part of the team on award winning projects 171 Collins Street and the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre. Awarded 2017 Victorian Development of the Year and Tenderfield People’s [...]
Two major hospitals under PPP delivered successfully
Umow Lai’s capacity to deliver a range of engineering services for highly specialised hospital projects with distinctive and complex requirements is nowhere more evident than in the health sector. Queensland’s $1.87B Sunshine Coast University Hospital [...]
Royal Adelaide Hospital setting benchmarks across healthcare
Australia’s largest and most complex hospital, the new Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) has set benchmarks across the healthcare industry. It will become a ‘super-site’ for major emergencies in South Australia, such as heart attacks and stroke, [...]
Herston Quarter: Brisbane’s new large-scale precinct
Umow Lai is delighted to be part of the team working with Australian Unity as the master developer of the $1.1B Herston Quarter redevelopment. Destined to become a major health, aged care, residential, recreation and [...]
Umow Lai congratulates Simon Umow and Sam Adams
We congratulate Senior Associate Simon Umow and Associate Sam Adams on their recent promotion. For more than 15 years, Simon Umow has applied his expert knowledge of the many facets of ICT design to provide [...]
Passive House – The Basics
Based around the principles of the International Thermal Comfort Standard ISO 7730, Passive House aims to provide year-round optimal thermal comfort and minimum energy consumption. Compared to buildings of “standard” construction, a Passive House building [...]
Anthony Dorinko and James Gungl take on key State roles
In late 2016, Anthony Dorinko, Associate Director and Mechanical Engineer, was appointed to the Society of Building Services Engineers, a Technical Society of the peak professional body, Engineers Australia. “The Society promotes, for the benefit of the [...]
Collins Square breaks new ground in Melbourne
For Collins Square, the new Events and Business Centre is designed to cater to small and large scale meetings and presentations for up to 200 people, including public events such as weddings. Located on the [...]
Building Physics
“Building Engineering Design is often looked upon as a form of Applied Engineering whereby a design is developed based on the application of industry established codes, standards and systems to suit the particular requirements of [...]
Making art out of a university building
A new building at Melbourne University shows how architecture can deliver joy and functionality. Cameras are already pointed at Arts West, a new building for the faculty of the arts at the University of Melbourne. [...]
Happiness is a Library
Stereotyped as the dusty, musty boltholes of the quiet crowd, libraries have evolved with the changing world to keep doing what they do best: informing and connecting the community. Read more about Geelong Library & [...]
Our People
Newly appointed Umow Lai Associate Director Hugh Wilson has a particular interest in the design and coordination of projects that include a strong HVAC – Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning component. “I like providing solutions [...]
Our Future Leaders Network discuss industry trends
The Future Leaders event, to be held at 6.00pm on 1st March will launch the 2017 Program. Taking advantage of the warmer weather, the event will be held on the outdoor terrace at Umow Lai’s [...]
Major Breakfast Seminar focus on the Paris Agreement
For the first Major Breakfast Seminar to be held on 16 March and titled ‘The Paris Agreement, renewable’s and buildings’, Shane Esmore, Umow Lai Director and Head of Sustainability, will focus on the Agreement and [...]
2016 – A remarkable year
25th anniversary We work hard and we know how to celebrate! During September, we hosted several successful events to commemorate our 25th anniversary. Around 300 people, a veritable ‘who’s who’ of people associated with the [...]
Umow Lai helps rebuild the famous Waltzing Matilda Centre
Umow Lai is delighted to have the opportunity to provide a range of services for Winton’s famous Waltzing Matilda Centre that is being rebuilt following a devastating fire in 2015.“We are working with Cox Architecture [...]
Umow Lai projects win highly acclaimed industry awards
At the AIA’s 2016 National Awards the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre won the prestigious Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture for ARM Architecture. It also was named National Commercial Master Builder of the [...]
AIRAH 2016 Winner – Excellence in Sustainability
Providing the highest level of sustainable design and Green Star services for the new School of Design building at The University of Melbourne has led to the project being selected as a finalist in the [...]
Risk Management
Effective Risk Management can help a business identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of a project. By identifying the potential risks, it is then possible to plan how to mitigate them, possibly even removing [...]
Umow Lai welcomes a new NSW State Manager and announces key appointments
NSW State Manager Patrick Elliott Patrick has particular interest in the integration of pragmatic sustainable design into buildings. A mechanical engineer, he has led many multi discipline projects across a range of building sectors and [...]
The University of Melbourne – Arts West Redevelopment – Digital Transformation
Designing the audio visual services for one of the University of Melbourne’s most significant building projects in recent years was an interesting challenge, and one that has successfully delivered new, dynamic purpose-built learning and teaching [...]
Views from the inside
Two Umow Lai Associates, Silvia Misuraca and Chris Grafton-White, talk about their careers. Silvia Misuraca, Senior Associate and Fire Engineer. “I started working at Umow Lai over 18 years ago as a Fire Services Engineer [...]
Celebrating 25 years in style – Message from Dominic Lai Founding Managing Director
“I am very proud to achieve this 25 years milestone and it was heartening to see so many of our clients from the construction industry at our celebratory event at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on [...]
Ecolibrium celebrates Umow Lai’s 25 years
Ecolibrium editor matt Dillon breaks bread with Dominic Lai, M.AIRAH, one of the co-founders of consultancy Umow Lai about his eponymous business, which is this year celebrating its 25th anniversary. Read complete article Ecolibrium celebrates [...]
Celebrating 25 Years
To celebrate Umow Lai's 25th anniversary, a veritable who's who of people associated with the engineering, architecture, property and building industry joined the Directors and staff for a night of celebration in the Jim Stynes [...]
Melbourne gets its first 6 star NABERS building without Green Power
Willow Aliento | 16 August 2016 Cbus Property and Charter Hall’s 171 Collins Street building in Melbourne has become the city’s first to achieve a six star NABERS Energy rating without the use of Green [...]
Broadmeadows Town Hall Refurbishment
The iconic 1960’s red brick Broadmeadows Town Hall is undergoing $20.2 million redevelopment that is set transform the landmark building into a thriving gathering place for its culturally diverse and rapidly growing population and [...]
Sydney Wharves
Umow Lai helping upgrade Sydney's iconic Ferry Wharves Sydney's population is set to top five million by 2017, making it the first city in Australia to reach the five million mark. With the ten largest [...]
Teddy Bears Picnic
Engineers who can cook Plates of cake pops, giant cookies, scones and brownies baked by our creative home cooks was all it took to entice their fellow Umow Lai Melbourne colleagues to come and taste [...]
RACV Cape Schanck Resort
RACV Cape Schanck Resort upgrade includes the latest in innovation and technology The Mornington Peninsula, a popular tourist destination an hour’s drive from Melbourne, is well known for its galleries, spas and cafes, gourmet produce [...]
Umow Lai takes centre stage in Ecolibrium & Digital Signage
September 2009: For this issue, the Ecolibrium cover headline ‘Mainstream green – how an office fit-out achieved sustainability – without the frills’, announced that Umow Lai’s new tenancy at 10 Yarra Street, South Yarra, was [...]
Australian Engineers in the limelight at International Fire Protection Conference
Australia was one the first countries in the world to adopt the performance-based fire engineering approach to building fire safety. And now, 25 years later, this fire engineering discipline has reached maturity and Australia remains [...]
Cabrini Brighton builds new facility to house State-of- the -Art MRI Machine
Cabrini Brighton builds a brand new facility to house state-of-the art MRI machine Healthcare providers around the world are under pressure as to how best manage two seemingly contradictory forces: delivering the highest quality care [...]
Australian Ballet School Residential Students call Marilyn Rowe House home
An impressive seventy eight per cent of students enrolled at the Australian Ballet School are from overseas and interstate, with some students as young as 13, have had to relocate to Melbourne with their families [...]
Umow Lai congratulates ARM on achievement
Umow Lai would like to congratulate our friends and colleagues at ARM architecture, Stephen Ashton, Howard Raggatt, and Ian McDougall, on their exciting achievement - being awarded 2016 Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal. Umow [...]
The Gold Coast’s First New Private Hospital in Two Decades Opens
Officially opened on 4 April, 2016, the $230 million Gold Coast Private Hospital in Southport is the first new Private Hospital to open on the Gold Coast in more than two decades and is designed [...]
A Fresh New Sustainable Start for the Melbourne Market
We all know it’s not easy being green. When you have a facility that extends over 69 hectares, approximately two and a half times the size of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), houses 3000 businesses, [...]