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,…

Austrian materials producer Wienerberger says its carbon-neutral concrete roof-tile factory in Hungary will “set a new standard across Europe”. The €30m, 7,300-sq-m plant in Hejopapi will be fully automated, with…

In Australia, a voluntary alliance of tier 1 contractors, government agencies, specialist subcontractors, engineering firms, cost consultants, architects, and material manufacturers – representing the whole construction supply chain – are…

Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors is to design and built an expansion of the Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital at Camperdown in Sydney on behalf of the government of New South…

Cimic Group company UGL has won a A$110m contract in joint venture with fellow Australian builder Adco to build new railcar maintenance plant at Bellevue, Western Australia, for the State’s…

Italy’s Trevi Group, with joint venture partner Wagstaff Piling, have landed a groundworks role on Melbourne’s US$8.36bn North East Link transport megaproject, Trevi told GCR today. The JV is building…

The Spark consortium has begun lowering parts of two tunnel-boring machines into place for Melbourne’s US$8.36bn North East Link transport megaproject. In a few months, the TBMs will start digging…

French building products company Saint-Gobain has signed an agreement to buy Australian rival CSR for US$2.8bn.

CPB Contractors has won a US$241m (A$370m) contract to help turn the Royal Australian Air Force’s Townsville base in northern Queensland into the country’s new “Army Capital”. The upgrade is…

The government of New Zealand has cancelled a light rail project for Auckland after the cost ballooned from US$9.8bn to as much as $19bn. The project was announced in 2018,…

Queensland state water company Sunwater has hired CPB Contractors and civil engineering firm Georgiou to build a replacement wall for the unfixable Paradise Dam on the Burnett River near Bundaberg.…