Updated April 02, 2019 13:23:04 The latest housing approval figures provide a mixed picture of the sector, with a flood of new apartment permits balanced against a slide in permits for stand-alone houses.
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Building approval data is notoriously volatile,...
Privacy concerns have become an everyday part of life for most people, especially in big cities and heavily populated areas. It seems like the moment someone ventures out of their home or workplace, they become the star of their...
Associated Builders and Contractors members invested $1.6 billion to educate their employees in 2018, up from $1.1 billion in 2013.
The 45% increase in spending resulted in nearly twice as many course attendees—more than 980,000—receiving craft, leadership, and safety education...
Tania Williams and her husband have been trying to build their first home for about eight years.
So when the project ground to a halt and they had to withdraw their mortgage application, the couple said it was "quite distressing".
It was uncertainty over building...
A private company controlled by one of Singapore's richest families, construction machinery and equipment supplier Tutt Bryant, legally pocketed $5.4 million in JobKeeper payments while it increased its revenue and profits.
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Private and public firms that have profited during the pandemic still...
Civil construction company Pipecon has been convicted and fined $550,000 for a workplace safety breach that killed two workers on a housing development in Ballarat.
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Pipecon pleaded guilty in the County Court more than three years after the fatal...
The redevelopment of the Flatbush Caton Market into a 14-story mixed-use building, dubbed Caton Flats, will revitalize the 20-year-old market and look to preserve the Caribbean community amidst gentrification.
The project will include 255 units of affordable housing, 16,000 sf...
Construction projects around the country could drastically slow, and home-owners could be on the hook for costs to replace cladding, with builders unable to secure professional indemnity insurance.
The crisis stems from the combustible cladding problem.
The last insurer to offer...
Ballarat has recorded three new COVID-19 cases amid a testing blitz that saw more than 2,000 residents get swabbed on Thursday.
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Three new cases bring the the Ballarat COVID cluster to nine cases
All new cases are known household primary close contacts of...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir – The Territory has suffered a catastrophic 74% drop in the volume of civil / engineering construction work, according to ABS figures released on June 26. It’s the largest reduction in activity of any...
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