John Holland and the CFMEU have voluntarily nixed agreements requiring the construction company to use certain labour hire businesses on two major projects in NSW, after the ACCC raised competition concerns.
Octopus Australia has reached financial close on its $900 Blind Creek solar farm and battery project in NSW’s Southern Tablelands region, clearing the way for construction to begin.
A judge who previously questioned why Geocon’s $4 million construction dispute over two Canberra developments was in the Federal Court has said he will continue to hear the case.
A Sydney developer has won a dispute with the Inner West Council over its Annandale housing project application, despite a court finding it would cause a loss of affordable housing.
Law firm HFW has expanded its global construction practice by snagging a leading construction lawyer and his team to capitalise on Queensland’s construction boom.
Developer Bloc is locked in a dispute with a contractor on the Watervue residential development in Newcastle, who it has accused of carrying out defective piling works.
The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has given the operator of the Ibis Sydney Airport hotel in Mascot another chance to seek a liquor licence, finding a deferred commencement condition did not mean a development consent was not ‘in force’.
The government of Western Australia will not move forward with a planned $1.6 billion redevelopment of the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre but will instead divert most of its $1.6 billion investment to a hospital infrastructure fund.
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.
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.