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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Australia’s Parliament yesterday rushed through a law preventing Russia from building a second embassy next to Parliament House in Canberra on grounds of national security. Backed by opposition MPs and…

Dutch company Royal HaskoningDHV has been selected by Besix Watpac, the Australian subsidiary of Belgium’s Besix Group, to act as the lead maritime design engineer for Sydney’s Circular Quay. The…

Singapore’s Capella Hotel Group has announced the opening of a five-star hotel in a listed 20th-century Sydney building. The hotel occupies a block of downtown Sydney, formerly occupied by Australia’s…

Plans have been unveiled for a renovation of the Canberra Theatre Centre (CTC) by Danish architect Henning Larsen, UK consulting engineer Arup and Australia’s Architectus. The original 1965 building will…

UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has been selected by Hong Kong-based electricity and gas company Alinta Energy to install a 35MW one-hour battery storage system in Port Hedland,…

Webuild’s new subsidiary Clough and its joint-venture partner Saipem have reached financial close on a €2.56bn contract to build a urea factory in Western Australia. Located on the Burrup Peninsula…

UK firm Grimshaw Architects has unveiled its design for an office tower in Sydney’s Circular Quay neighbourhood. Grimshaw describes the US$67m Poly Centre as having a “sculptural” form. The building’s…

Arcadis and Volt Advisory are designing a renewable microgrid for the Daintree region of Far North Queensland as an alternative to burning 4 million litres of diesel in generators a…

Transport for New South Wales has awarded Vinci’s Australian subsidiary Seymour Whyte two projects with a combined value of A$385m (€240m). One sees the company building a 5km section of…

Cimic Group subsidiary Pacific Partnerships has announced the start of work on a 130MW solar farm in the north of Victoria State. Another Cimic subsidiary, UGL, will build, operate and…