Transportation & Infrastructure

Australia's five-year major infrastructure pipeline has skyrocketed to $242 billion, according to a report from the government's infrastructure advisor which warns shortages in labour and low construction productivity could put projects at risk. 

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.

Billboard company Manboom has suffered a loss in its case against Jemena Gas alleging the presence of underground gas infrastructure at a site in Mascot, NSW that supplies gas to 1.6 million customers amounts to trespassing.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency will invest $45 million into Fortescue's first-of-its-kind solar innovation hub in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

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.

Insurer Liberty Mutual has argued that CPB Contractors and John Holland's $150 million in claims in relation to Sydney's North West Rail project are largely out of time, in a lawsuit alleging the insurer breached its duty of good faith.

Engineering firm GHD Australia, which was recently joined to a class action over a bus crash in NSW’s Hunter Valley that killed 10 passengers, has said it may bring cross-claims against its fellow defendants. 

Engineering company Monadelphous Group has entered an agreement to acquire Western Australia-based Kerman Contracting for $15 million.

The board administering the ESSSuper fund, which is facing a class action alleging it miscalculated the entitlements of transport shift workers in Victoria, has denied any liability, saying it was not involved in determining how entitlements were calculated.

The Business Council of Australia has released a report calling for policy reforms to facilitate private sector infrastructure development, including changes to the EPBC Act.