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Broad Construction to build Australian robotics and manufacturing centre

Australian contractor Broad Construction is to build a Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Centre in the campus of a Queensland university. Technical and Further Education Queensland (TAFE) is working on the…

London’s Grenfell Tower catastrophe in 2017, along with two cladding fires in Australia, motivated the NSW government to set up Project Remediate (Natalie Oxford/CC BY 4.0 Deed)

Getting to grips with unsafe cladding in New South Wales

The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) is attracting international attention for its approach to replacing flammable cladding on multi-unit residential buildings. Launched in March 2021 after the state…

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Cimic wins five-year Australian electricity contract

UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has won a five-year contract with a US$50m ceiling to provide power-line maintenance and construction services in the Australian state of Victoria. The…

Contreras Earl reveals second Melbourne vertiport as air taxis “to fly next year”

Australian architect Contreras Earl has revealed its design for a second “vertiport” in Merlbourne. This will handle flying taxis at Batman Park and follows an earlier design for the city’s…

The work involves upgrades to runways, taxiways, parking areas and aeronautical ground lighting, asphalting and improving culverts and drainage (Image courtesy of Cimic Group)

CPB wins Australian air base jobs

Australia’s Department of Defence has picked Cimic Group’s CPB Contractors for the early contractor involvement development phase for upgrades at air force bases Curtin and Learmonth in Western Australia. The…

Rejuvenated Clough-BMD JV wins Darwin shiplift contract again

A joint venture between rejuvenated contractor Clough and Queensland engineer BMD has for the second time won a contract to build a shiplift in the northern Australian port of Darwin for the Northern Territory state government.

Melbourne (Giovanni Gagliardi/Dreamstime)

Acciona, Cimic and Ghella consortium wins 16km Melbourne tunnel contract

A consortium led by Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors, Italian civil engineer Ghella and Spanish contractor Acciona are in line for a contract to excavate 16km of twin-bore tunnels for Melbourne’s…

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Cimic to build Queensland solar farm

Cimic Group subsidiary Pacific Partnerships will develop, manage, and operate the 300MWdc Hopeland Solar Farm in Queensland, Australia. The solar farm will have the potential to generate enough electricity to…

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Cimic wins $324m Australian fuel network project

UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has won a contract to provide strategic advice, planning, supply management, operations and maintenance for the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) fuel network. The…

How a temporary platform helped us upgrade a Sydney train station

Transport for Tomorrow has pioneered the use of a temporary, modular railway platform surfaced with fibre-reinforced-polymer (FRP) to help with a station upgrade.

Lithium hydroxide is used in electric vehicle batteries. UGL will build two more production lines at Albemarle’s factory near Bunbury, Western Australia (Courtesy of Albemarle)

UGL wins $330m contract for Australia’s biggest lithium producer

American chemicals giant Albemarle has awarded a A$330m contract to Cimic group company UGL to double the size of its lithium hydroxide plant near Bunbury, Western Australia. UGL will build…

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First Nations-led design wins competition for Sydney harbour park

A design team led by members of Australia’s First Nations has won a competition to design a 1.85ha park in the Barangaroo area of central Sydney. Harbour Park will offer…

Queensland’s health department said it will be the biggest-ever health infrastructure investment in the Wide Bay-Burnett region (Render courtesy of CPB Contractors)

CPB to lead detailed design of Bundaberg’s $1.2bn new hospital

The state government of Queensland, Australia has picked Cimic group company CPB Contractors to lead the detailed design phase of the A$1.2bn (US$788m) New Bundaberg Hospital. Bundaberg is a city…

The Western Downs battery site (Neoen)

UGL to expand capacity at Queensland’s solar battery

Australian contractor UGL and EV maker Tesla have been chosen to carry out an expansion of the Western Downs Battery project in Queensland for renewable energy specialist Neoen. At present,…

Illustration by Denis Carrier

Australia concludes sting on $92m illegal employment ring

A two-and-a-half year investigation carried out by the Australian Border Force and Australian Taxation Office has led to the conviction of four Chinese nationals working in the construction industry in…

Last month, athletes from around Victoria marked 1,000 days to go to the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games, before they were cancelled yesterday (Courtesy of the Commonwealth Games Federation/Commonwealth Sport)

Victoria skips Commonwealth Games to go straight to their ‘legacy’

The Australian state of Victoria will spend A$2bn on homes and sporting venues to give Victorians the “legacy” of the Commonwealth Games it cancelled yesterday. Victoria premier Daniel Andrews promised…

The project is intended to “streamline the passenger journey”, the airport said (Courtesy of Cimic Group)

CPB to expand Brisbane airport’s international terminal

Cimic Group subsidiary CPB Contractors has won a contract from Brisbane Airport Corporation to plan, then deliver, the expansion and upgrading of security, retail, and administrative facilities at the airport’s…

The man has been filmed smoking cigarettes and taking food deliveries from this site cabin in the diplomatic precinct of Yarralumla, Canberra. Photograph from 8 June 2023 (Peter Ellis/CC BY-SA 4.0)

‘Squatting’ Russian diplomat won’t leave Australian embassy site

An employee of Russia’s embassy in Canberra is refusing to leave the site of a planned new embassy in the capital after the Australian government terminated Russia’s lease on the…

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