Three contractors have signed a deal to build a section of Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL), a project to improve lateral connections in the city. The Terra Verde consortium consists…

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been selected by the government of Western Australia to work with local architect WITH on the refurbishment of the Perth Concert Hall. The…

The Australian state of Victoria has approved the first phase of a $1.1bn “anti-ageing utopia” in Melbourne’s Docklands, the Urban Developer website reports. The 2.7ha Elysium Fields project, which is…

A joint venture of Vinci subsidiary Seymour Whyte and John Holland, a subsidiary of China Communications Construction, has won a €432m (A$695m) contract to upgrade an approximately 42km-long section of…

Strabag has tested autonomous machines that can lay asphalt on a section of Austria’s A9 motorway between Graz and Slovenia. The units use satellite navigation and are able to recognise…

Japanese contractor and materials company Sumitomo Forestry is to purchase a controlling stake in Metricon, Australia’s largest housebuilder, for US$79m. The acquisition will give Sumitomo a 51% share in the…

Seymour Whyte, the Australian subsidiary of French contractor Vinci, has won two road contracts worth a total of US$230m in Sydney and Melbourne. The first, awarded by Transport for New…

A Sydney construction boss and four others have been found guilty of a conspiracy to defraud Australia’s tax office of more than US$7.1m over two years. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation…

Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors and UK-based Multiplex Construction have been shortlisted to build the US$680m Northside Hospital Project in Canberra. The facility will join the North Canberra Hospital campus in…

Australia’s economic policy chief, Treasurer Jim Chalmers, has warned that falling iron ore prices linked to a major slowdown in China’s construction output could lead to a A$3bn hole in…

A 15.5km section of the Sydney metro has opened to the public. The line runs from the city’s northwest, under the harbour, through the central business district to the suburb…

An eight-storey, 45,000-sq-m hospital building has been completed at Canberra Hospital, the first in Australia to run fully on electrical power. Built by Australian developer Multiplex, the Critical Services Building…

The Webuild-led Terra Verde joint venture has been named preferred bidder for the Tunnels North contract of Suburban Rail Loop East (SRL East), part of Melbourne’s new, 90km orbital railway,…

Vicinity Centres, an Australian real estate investment trust, has won approval for a US$1bn residential development in Melbourne, The Urban Developer reports.  The Box Hill project will consist of 1,700…

Cimic subsidiary UGL has won a five-year, A$125m contract to upgrade Western Power’s electricity distribution and transmission network in the southwestern part of Western Australia. It will provide overhead maintenance…

Cimic Group company Pacific Partnerships has acquired the development rights for what will be one of Australia’s biggest solar farms, the 700MWac Cobbora Solar Farm on 3,000 hectares near Dubbo…

Vinci Construction’s Australian subsidiary Seymour Whyte has won a €96m contract to improve road access to Melbourne Airport. The contractor will upgrade the airport’s forecourt and build a 550m bridge…

Australian construction group Lendlease has announced plans to exit international markets in the next 18 months. The move will allow the company to “recycle” US$3bn in capital by completing projects,…