Construction

A Southern Cross Gold unit has attacked a community group’s failure to put on evidence of its members' financial status to support claims that it can't meet the company’s $230,000 security demand in a dispute over a Victorian tunneling project. 

Publican Julian Gerner has “significantly” amended his claims in a dispute over the redevelopment of the Continental Hotel Sorrento, a court has heard.

One Global Capital's proposed $1.9 billion mixed-use redevelopment at Five Dock in has been declared a state significant development, paving the way for one Sydney's largest urban renewal projects.

Liquidators appointed by the court to five companies behind $130 million worth of construction projects in Brisbane have won more time to bring potential claims while they investigate several matters, including an allegedly “very odd” tax situation.

Shell is facing $30 million arbitration proceedings from Indian renewables company Sterling and Wilson Renewable Energy stemming from agreements to construct and operate the Gangarri solar farm in Queensland.

Macquarie Data Centres will spend up to $3 billion on a 200-megawatt data centre campus in Sydney after striking a $240 million land deal in Macquarie Park.

An appeals court has relaxed freezing orders against Sydney property developer Golden Rain, allowing it to sell property to repay its debts while it defends a $26 million defects claim by the owners corporation of the Sugarcube Apartments and Honeycomb Terraces developments.

The NSW government has approved a $1 billion logistics and industrial estate in the Western Sydney Aerotropolis, the largest industrial development to date in the area near the city's new airport. 

Dexus has dragged five of its insurers to court seeking indemnity for more than $16.5 million in remediation costs stemming from alleged defects in the waterproofing system that was installed as part of the $150 million redevelopment of Sydney's MLC Centre.

An appeals court has granted a builder's appeal in a dispute over payments for work on the Seasons of Perth hotel, finding the strict one-day deadline for serving an adjudication review application under Western Australia's Security of Payment Act is a jurisdictional requirement.