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…

Promising sunshine, surfing, high wages, and cheaper living, the government of Western Australia will visit the UK and Ireland this month to try and recruit civil engineers and skilled tradespeople…

The state of South Australia plans the world’s largest hydrogen power station fuelled by the world’s largest electrolyser. The 200MW scheme, and the 250MW electrolyser, will be developed by the…

Webuild has signed a contract with the administrators of Clough Limited in Australia to acquire Clough’s assets, including its offices, trademarks, credentials, and 1,100 employees, plus more than €4bn worth…

UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has been appointed by French energy company Neoen to install high voltage infrastructure at the 1,500ha Western Downs Green Power Hub in Queensland,…

Cimic Group’s UGL has been awarded five multi-year energy and resources contracts in Western Australia worth a total of US$136m. UGL will work with existing clients on the following: Work…

Work is getting underway today on a giant radio telescope billed as one of the 21st century’s most important science projects. The first phases of the Single Kilometre Array, or…

A US$231m extension of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, designed by Pritzker-Prize-winning firm SANAA, is to open to the public on 3 December. The project includes…