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  • With the use of Deswik software, the McConnell Dowell John Holland Joint Venture has brought tangible benefits to the Kidston Pumped Storage Hydro Project, reportedly the first pumped storage hydro pr ...
  • n June, after Australia posted its largest fall in national productivity on record, federal Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers noted that the solution was not “trying to make people work longer for less” but a ...
  • When construction or new asset installation impacts underground utilities such as gas, water or power mains, the consequences can be expensive, and even deadly. According to Reveal, utility strikes co ...
  • The Treasurer of Australia has released the Intergenerational Report 2023, which recognises the importance of the infrastructure sector, and expects that spending will continue to increase across the ...
  • The Bruce Highway Upgrade, from Caboolture-Bribie Island Road to Steve Irwin Way, has reached a significant milestone, with major construction completed on three lanes, which are now open to north and ...
  • Glenn Murcutt and Angelo Candalepas’s first collaboration in central Sydney has been approved by the City of Sydney. To be located at 271 Elizabeth Street, the mixed-use project will replace the exist ...
  • Bates Smart has unveiled designs for a five-building student accommodation precinct across the road from the University of New South Wales’ Kensington campus, Sydney. Developed by student accommodatio ...
  • Households across Australia are struggling with soaring energy and housing costs and a lack of housing options. Mixed with a climate crisis, economic volatility and social inequality, it’s a potent se ...
  • Underneath Brisbane progress is underway on the next phase of works in Cross River Rail’s twin tunnels, with workers continuing installation of necessary pipes and cables.  About 180 workers are invol ...
  • Construction of Powerhouse Parramatta is well underway, with pieces of the huge steel exoskeleton starting to be lifted into place by what’s said to be the world’s heaviest capacity tower crane. The e ...
  • The 2023 World Architecture Festival Awards have shortlisted 495 projects from around the world, with over 30 of those projects being from Australia. Australia is among the top 10 countries with the m ...
  • A preferred transport corridor for Newcastle that includes light rail is set to be finalised, with the New South Wales Government requesting that the plan be accelerated to provide certainty for stake ...
  • The New South Wales government has finalized its Connecting with Country Framework, which provides guidance for designers, planners and governments on how to respond to Country and empower Aboriginal ...
  • The New South Wales government has unveiled plans to increase the supply of affordable and social housing in the state by offering developers fast-tracked planning assessment and extra developable are ...
  • Woods Bagot’s Perth studio has been appointed to design the Western Australian government’s new agriculture headquarters. The New Metropolitan Facility for the Department of Primary Industry and Regio ...
  • The Federal Government has announced a new $2 billion Social Housing Accelerator to deliver thousands of new social homes across Australia. The program will be delivered to state and territory governm ...
  • Transport for NSW is set to hold a series of safety summits for local governments in the state’s south, aiming to  support frontline teams who are delivering on the huge task of maintaining, repairing ...
  • Lendlease has been selected by the City of Melbourne to undertake the largest mixed-use development project in the council's history. The project involves the transformation of a 3.2-hectare precinct ...
  • Five Australian landscape architecture practices have been shortlisted in a competition to design a two-hectare park in a new city development near the proposed Western Sydney Airport. Arcadia Landsca ...
  • Bates Smart has designed a new commercial tower at Sydney’s Chifley Square in the CBD. The proposed building will be a companion to the existing Chifley tower, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and Travis ...
  • Works for the new Southern Cross Drive Bridge, part of the ongoing Botany Rail Duplication project in New South Wales, are well underway with the first of two temporary steel girders now installed. Th ...
  • A masterplanned Castle Hill community has received approval and is being touted as the largest and greenest development in the suburb west of Sydney.  The Carrington Place development is a 3.2ha site ...
  • The main structures of three new residential apartment buildings at Green Square in Sydney’s Zetland have been topped out, with 311 new homes nearing completion at one of the largest urban renewal pro ...
  • Milligan Group, the developer of a proposed skyscraper over Sydney’s Hunter Street Station, has applied to demolish the site’s current buildings as part of the project’s next phase. Located on the cor ...

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