Cimic subsidiary UGL has won a A$120m, three and a half year contract by Australian state broadband agency NBN Co to upgrade the internet infrastructure in the eastern states of…

Multiplex has finished the terminal building at Australia’s newest airport, Western Sydney International (WSI) in the suburb of Badgery’s Creek some 40km west of Sydney’s central business district. Billed as…

Italy’s Webuild has signed a €1.1bn contract to design and build a hospital for women and children in Perth on behalf of the government of Western Australia. The project will…

An international team of Acciona, SMEC, WSP and Cimic subsidiaries CPB Contractors and UGL has won a design and pre-construction contract for the main works of a US$3.65bn (A$5.75bn) rail…

Plans for a central park have been approved for Bradfield City Centre, a new 10,000-home district and business hub planned in a rural area south of the under-construction Western Sydney…

Melbourne’s long-anticipated airport rail link has taken a step forward, with the Australian federal government confirming it will allocate A$7bn for the project. That includes $5bn previously committed, plus $2bn…

Spain’s Acciona has created surfboards from old wind turbine blades. The company worked with Australian professional surfer Josh Kerr and his surfboard brand Draft Surf for the initial range of…

CPB Contractors is celebrating a milestone in its project to build Stage 1 of Sydney’s Western Harbour Tunnel (WHT) with the completion of a triple-lane road tunnel between Rozelle and…

Bechtel has been appointed capital portfolio partner for Perth Airport’s A$5bn expansion and upgrade programme. The programme involves a suite of major projects, including expanding its terminals, building a new…

Canberra has announced that for two years from April 2025, foreign buyers will be unable to purchase existing homes in the country. The move is intended to relax price pressure…

The government of New South Wales (NSW) has announced that in the three weeks since it launched the Housing Delivery Authority (HDA) it received 96 submissions which if approved would build…

Fans of the rock legends AC/DC are reportedly furious that developers have demolished the boydhood home of band founders Angus and Malcolm Young in Sydney, Australia, despite it being on…

An investment of US$620m (A$1bn) has been announced for building a transit corridor from the suburb of Liverpool to the new Western Sydney International Airport. Jointly funded by local and…

Austrian contractor Strabag has agreed a €140m deal to buy all the shares in Australian civil engineer Georgiou Group. The takeover approved by Strabag’s supervisory board on 17 December will…

Three contractors have signed a deal to build a section of Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL), a project to improve lateral connections in the city. The Terra Verde consortium consists…

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been selected by the government of Western Australia to work with local architect WITH on the refurbishment of the Perth Concert Hall. The…

The Australian state of Victoria has approved the first phase of a $1.1bn “anti-ageing utopia” in Melbourne’s Docklands, the Urban Developer website reports. The 2.7ha Elysium Fields project, which is…

A joint venture of Vinci subsidiary Seymour Whyte and John Holland, a subsidiary of China Communications Construction, has won a €432m (A$695m) contract to upgrade an approximately 42km-long section of…