Construction PRO

The ACCC has taken Sydney's four largest mobile crane companies and four of their senior executives to court for allegedly engaging in cartel conduct by agreeing not to supply cranes to certain customers or construction sites.

The owners corporation of a 98-unit Parklea development by defunct builder Dyldam Developments have appealed a ruling that found time was up on its insurance claim for building defects in a property completed 17 years ago.

Mirvac has entered into a joint venture with Japanese developer Mitsubishi Estate to deliver a mixed-use precinct in Sydney’s Darling Harbour, estimated to have an end value of over $2 billion. 

Perth-based construction and mining contractor NRW Holdings will acquire engineering company Fredon Industries in a $200 million takeover bid.

A Tasmanian community group has lost its appeal against a decision by a local council to grant a permit for Ark Energy’s proposed St Patricks Plains Wind Farm, but a tribunal has ordered the wind farm to tweak its plans.

Plans to transform the site of the former VicRoads in Kew have progressed, with four developers invited by the Victorian government to put forward development proposals, including Lendlease and Mirvac.

A judge has rejected a “finely balanced” application to transfer a court fight between Waratah Engineering and Wollongong Resources over mining equipment contracts to New South Wales.

An ex-Keystone director has raised concerns that expanding a freezing order over his assets would impact his ability to pay his solicitors at law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

A court has ordered the de facto director of failed construction company Trinco to pay its liquidator $10 million, finding that the builder had been trading while insolvent since 2018.

Ray White has secured a stay of examinations of its employees, as a creditor of FSM Development investigates claims the real estate agency's loan agreement with the collapsed Sydney developer was uncommercial.