Smarter Defects Management (DLP Manager) has launched its world-first Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) digital traffic light system that it says will revolutionise one of the construction industry's biggest challenges - managing defects. DLP Manager says defects make up 4 to 12% of...
As the pandemic roared in during early 2020, rapid and astonishing shifts were made to prop up an economy sledgehammered by lockdowns, restrictions and fear. Key points: COVID-era law changes reduced the need for failing businesses to enter administration JobKeeper and a...
Camera Icon Master Builders Executive Director John Gelavis. Credit: The West Australian Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Email Us Copy the Link Master Builders is the peak body representing the housing, commercial and civil/infrastructure construction sectors. A few weeks ago, Master Builders members from around...
Planning Minister Anthony Roberts announced last week that the state government was looking into extending allowable working hours for construction companies in hopes of alleviating current pressures from labour shortages, rising material costs and supply chain issues. Source
Jason Langer, Robert Bird Group Architectural render of the completed building, looking from the north-east (All photographs courtesy of Robert Bird Group) By adding 45 levels to an existing 26-storey tower, the Greenland Centre Sydney project showed that...
A waterfront estate on Hobart's eastern shore has sold for $8.533 million, breaking the real estate record for a suburban house in Tasmania. The five-bedroom, three-bathroom home is located on more than 10,000 square metres of land on Howrah Point,...
More businesses in the construction sector, already under pressure from stretched supply chains and labour shortages, are expected to go to the wall as the cost of materials and wages exceed manageable levels. According to credit reporting agency CreditorWatch, the...
A boy who was critically injured when he fell from a height at a residential construction site in Perth has died. Key points: The 12-year-old was playing at the site with friends when he fell His sister said his organs would be donated to...
Article by VinZero CEO, Paul Laycock. The building and construction sector is one of the largest in the world economy, with around $10 trillion spent on construction-related goods and services every year. However, it is also one of the most...
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