Construction

The NSW Land and Environment Court has given the green light to a plan to build an apartment complex in Bondi Junction following a successful conciliation conference between the developer and the local council.

Transgrid contractor Elecnor is seeking to appeal a ruling that found it unlawfully denied the Electrical Trades Union access to 47 migrant workers on Australia’s largest transmission project.

A former Downer EDI project manager has lost a bid for court orders forcing NSW's Independent Commission Against Corruption to remove a report into a probe relating to Transport for NSW and Inner West Council tenders.

Builder Richard Crookes has won its costs after mediation was aborted in a case by the owners corporation for a building in Sydney’s Erskineville over aluminium composite panel cladding installed nine years ago. 

ASIC can amend its case against Gold Coast developer ALAMMC to seek winding up orders against the company and related entities over concerns $70 million in funds have been misused.

The federal government has given Lendlease the final green light for a three-tower residential development on land adjacent to the Queen Victoria Market after almost a decade of planning. 

Developer CBS Commercial has asked a court to summarily dismiss a defects suit over a luxury lakeside development in the leafy Canberra suburb of Kingston, arguing the case has no reasonable prospects of success.

The Port Authority of NSW has won its claim for public interest immunity over six cabinet documents in a suit by a defunct sand importer over a lease agreement for a mulit-user facility at Glebe Island, with a judge finding they had little forensic value.

GFG unit Whyalla Ports has won its bid to rub out some expert evidence put forward by OneSteel about the costs of dismantling and removing assets from the site in their dispute over control of the assets at the South Australian port.

A judge has declined to order security in developer Gilridge Investments’ payment claim fight with Diamond Builders over a $5.3 million apartment project, saying the builder failed to show the penniless developer would not be able to cover its costs after completing the troubled project.