Transportation & Infrastructure

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.

A partner who has advised on landmark energy and infrastructure projects is headed back to Ashurst, after a two-year stint at Gilbert + Tobin.

Spanish infrastructure firm Acciona is mulling cross-claims against contractor Veolia Australia after losing its fight to move their dispute over the Kwinana waste-to-energy project west, a court has heard.

The Victorian government has chosen a John Holland-led consortium as its preferred bidder to build three new underground stations as part of Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop project.