Construction

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. 

A judge won't schedule an initial trial on the limitations period in a $150 million coverage spat between insurers and Northwest Rail Link builders CPB Contractors and John Holland.

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.

A defunct design firm has been found guilty of health and safety violations after a shoring wall fell down at a Geocon construction site in Canberra, with a magistrate saying the collapse could have caused multiple deaths.