Construction’s diversity numbers are awful.
Here’s how 3 US based contractors are improving theirs. When it comes to diversity and inclusion, construction is still on the ground floor. Compared to the overall workforce, the construction...
Category: Noteworthy News
Cracks in the system
It is almost impossible for purchasers to predict whether their new apartment will have building defects, a report into the apartment building industry has found. Poor business culture, poor capacity...
City of Melbourne new urban design requirements
The City of Melbourne’s new Central Melbourne Design Guide is set to overhaul the city’s urban design requirements for the first time in 25 years. Victoria Minister for Planning, Richard Wynne, has...
SA circular economy grants now open
South Australia’s Circular Economy Market Development Grants Program will provide up to $100,000 in funding per applicant for market development projects involving recycled materials. Local councils, industry associations, not-for-profit organisations,...
Big Housing Build – more than 1000 homes bought
The Victorian Government’s historic Big Housing Build is stimulating the Victorian economy, generating more than $1 billion in construction and development activity – creating 356 direct jobs and 1,246 indirect...
Aerotropolis Green Spaces to be Reduced
Open spaces will be scaled back under proposed changes to the final planning package for the Western Sydney Aerotropolis. Proposed changes to the State Environment Planning Policy are on public...
Environmentally friendly road surfacing – Evergreen Clyde Vic.
Stockland Evergreen, Stockland’s newest masterplanned community in Melbourne’s south-east suburb of Clyde, is set to become the largest residential project in Australia to use the environmentally friendly road surfacing material,...
Suburban Rail Loop legislation
Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) – as well as the thousands of jobs it’ll deliver – is another step closer with the passing of legislation to enable the city-shaping investment to...
$62B ‘digital dividend’ available if infrastructure firms update outdated tech
Australia’s property and asset-intensive industries could unlock a $62 billion ‘digital dividend’ by replacing old technology with cloud-based Software as a Service systems (SaaS), according to a landmark economic analysis...
UK News: ‘Obstructing construction’ to become a criminal offence
The Home Office is planning to introduce new legislation to lock up protestors who disrupt transportation or construction. After recent motorway blockages by demonstrators from Insulate Britain, home secretary Priti Patel...