Posted June 07, 2019 11:48:00 The construction sector's downturn accelerated last month, with a leading industry survey pointing to the sharpest decline in activity in six years. Key points: Construction activity has been contracting for nine consecutive months 50,000 jobs were lost...
Savannah College of Art and Design has announced a new student housing project that will be located on 2.5 acres in downtown Savannah, Ga. The $54 million-Victory Drive Student Housing project will comprise 250,000 sf across two residence halls and...
With an asking price of about $400,000, it looked to Kevin Pattemore like a worthy investment for what would be his first home.  Key points: Owners of a group of NT homes were previously warned by the government to seek alternative shelter...
Updated June 28, 2019 18:30:05 Photo: A Fair Go For Regional Queensland rally was held in Brisbane recently. (Supplied: Rockhampton Regional Council) Are large parts of regional Australia doomed to fail or can years of decline be turned around...
Thousands of Victorian homeowners are being stranded with "orphaned" houses they cannot live in because of regulatory failures and bureaucratic dithering, according to industry experts.  Key points: One Victorian family have been kicked out of the house they built and have endured...
Loading Transport projects didn’t always cost this much. CityLink cost $1.8 billion – tracked to inflation, that’s $3.06 billion in today’s money. Global engineering firm AECOM estimates CityLink today would cost around $15 billion if we started building it today....
San Francisco recently announced a plan that would require its largest private commercial buildings to run on 100% renewable electricity. The first such requirement in the U.S. would be phased in next decade. By 2022, commercial buildings over 500,000 sf...
Kindergarten crisis in Sofia prolonged by delayed construction 10,000 kids failed to find a place in the overcrowded municipal kindergartens this summer and the construction of new facilities is very slow Yesterday, during a meeting of the Sofia Municipal Council a...
Last month, I wrote about how automation and AI are dramatically changing all four fundamental relationships between buildings and machines. For example, nanotechnology, which manipulates individual atoms and molecules to assemble things, could make the modernist metaphor of a...
A small number of protesters have been arrested in Melbourne's CBD this morning, as hundreds of police remain on high alert after yesterday's violent protest. More than 500 police officers are stationed in the city but so far the number of...
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