It's the stuff of Sydney strata nightmares: a cracking building, an expensive repair bill and an owners' meeting that got so heated the police turned up.
The drama started in the basement of the Vicinity apartment towers in Canterbury earlier...
Concrete, steel and aluminium are considered some of the more challenging materials to decarbonise.
A typical cubic metre of brick has embodied emissions of around 357kg of carbon dioxide.
This comes from extracting the raw material from quarries, processing it, shaping...
“The rumours suggest that Metricon has been cancelling customer contracts due to price escalations, or an inability to build due to product shortages,” he says.
“These rumours are false and baseless. Metricon is in a very strong position to complete...
Construction companies worldwide are being urged to support a charter launched today by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) committing them to take five beginners’ steps toward making their workforces more diverse, or risk losing competitive advantage...
A company which failed to provide a safe workplace for a teenage boy, resulting in him falling 12 metres to his death at the old Perth post office building, has been fined $320,000.
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Wesley Ballantine died after falling through a roof...
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A surge in arrivals, skills shortages and lack of building supplies are just some of the hurdles local pool builders have overcome to service the thriving industry on the Sunshine Coast.
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Pool builders on the Sunshine Coast are taking...
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