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Acciona takes aim at ‘hopelessly flawed’ patent suit over $511M waste-to-energy plant
Intellectual Property 2025-11-07 11:47 pm By Sam Matthews

Acciona is mulling a bid to summarily dismiss a “hopelessly flawed” patent suit by its construction partner on the troubled East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant project, saying it is doomed in light of a High Court decision holding a patentee’s rights are exhausted at the time of sale.

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IP suit against Acciona the latest fight over East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant
Construction 2025-11-07 11:55 pm By Sam Matthews

Acciona is facing what it says is a “hopelessly flawed” suit by its construction partner on the troubled East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant over patented equipment used to facilitate waste combustion. 

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Insurers lose round in case by CPB, John Holland over $8B Northwest Rail Link
Construction 2025-11-07 11:14 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge won’t schedule an initial trial on the limitations period in a $150 million coverage spat between insurers and Northwest Rail Link builders CPB Contractors and John Holland.

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Company behind Suburban Rail loop acquires engineering firm BG&E Group
Construction 2025-11-07 11:47 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A French engineering and consulting group involved in some of Australia’s largest public transport projects has acquired unlisted Australian multi-disciplinary engineering firm BG&E Group.

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Structural design firm found guilty over ‘potentially catastrophic’ wall collapse at Geocon site
Construction 2025-11-07 11:29 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A defunct design firm has been found guilty of health and safety violations after a shoring wall fell down at a Geocon construction site in Canberra, with a magistrate saying the collapse could have caused multiple deaths. 

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Villawood wants director’s daughters added to fraud suit over Wallan development
Real Estate 2025-11-06 11:58 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Developer Villawood wants to add its director’s three daughters to its case over an alleged “dishonest and fraudulent design” to divert valuable management fees for a project in Wallan, Victoria to the director’s family company.

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Lux Sydney development didn’t repudiate contract by installing wrong marble: court
Real Estate 2025-11-06 11:52 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A woman has lost her lawsuit seeking to get out of an agreement to purchase an apartment ‘off the plan’ in a luxury development in Sydney’s harbourside suburb of Rushcutters Bay, after the wrong colour marble was installed in the kitchen.

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Wood & Grieve can’t get more details from CPB in spat over Elizabeth Quay project
Construction 2025-11-06 11:41 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Engineering firm Wood & Grieve has failed to convince a judge to compel CPB Contractors to provide it with further and better particulars in a dispute over work on Perth’s Elizabeth Quay redevelopment.

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Tribunal slaps builder with $2.9M for defects in Dandenong apartment complex
Construction 2025-11-05 11:37 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A tribunal has ordered a defunct builder of a Dandenong apartment complex to pay $2.9 million in damages for a slew of defects and interest on a loan needed to replace combustible cladding.

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Qld developer of beachfront high-rise knocks back $10M ruling for builder
Construction 2025-11-05 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An adjudicator’s decision awarding $10 million to a builder on Queensland developer Heran Group’s high-rise luxury apartment building in Main Beach lacked procedural fairness after he went outside the parties’ submissions, a judge has found. 

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