UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has won a five-year contract with a US$50m ceiling to provide power-line maintenance and construction services in the Australian state of Victoria. The…

Australian architect Contreras Earl has revealed its design for a second “vertiport” in Merlbourne. This will handle flying taxis at Batman Park and follows an earlier design for the city’s…

Australia’s Department of Defence has picked Cimic Group’s CPB Contractors for the early contractor involvement development phase for upgrades at air force bases Curtin and Learmonth in Western Australia. The…

A joint venture between rejuvenated contractor Clough and Queensland engineer BMD has for the second time won a contract to build a shiplift in the northern Australian port of Darwin for the Northern Territory state government.

A consortium led by Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors, Italian civil engineer Ghella and Spanish contractor Acciona are in line for a contract to excavate 16km of twin-bore tunnels for Melbourne’s…

Cimic Group subsidiary Pacific Partnerships will develop, manage, and operate the 300MWdc Hopeland Solar Farm in Queensland, Australia. The solar farm will have the potential to generate enough electricity to…

UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has won a contract to provide strategic advice, planning, supply management, operations and maintenance for the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) fuel network. The…

Transport for Tomorrow has pioneered the use of a temporary, modular railway platform surfaced with fibre-reinforced-polymer (FRP) to help with a station upgrade.

American chemicals giant Albemarle has awarded a A$330m contract to Cimic group company UGL to double the size of its lithium hydroxide plant near Bunbury, Western Australia. UGL will build…

A design team led by members of Australia’s First Nations has won a competition to design a 1.85ha park in the Barangaroo area of central Sydney. Harbour Park will offer…

The state government of Queensland, Australia has picked Cimic group company CPB Contractors to lead the detailed design phase of the A$1.2bn (US$788m) New Bundaberg Hospital. Bundaberg is a city…

Australian contractor UGL and EV maker Tesla have been chosen to carry out an expansion of the Western Downs Battery project in Queensland for renewable energy specialist Neoen. At present,…

A two-and-a-half year investigation carried out by the Australian Border Force and Australian Taxation Office has led to the conviction of four Chinese nationals working in the construction industry in…

The Australian state of Victoria will spend A$2bn on homes and sporting venues to give Victorians the “legacy” of the Commonwealth Games it cancelled yesterday. Victoria premier Daniel Andrews promised…

Cimic Group subsidiary CPB Contractors has won a contract from Brisbane Airport Corporation to plan, then deliver, the expansion and upgrading of security, retail, and administrative facilities at the airport’s…

An employee of Russia’s embassy in Canberra is refusing to leave the site of a planned new embassy in the capital after the Australian government terminated Russia’s lease on the…

Australia’s Parliament yesterday rushed through a law preventing Russia from building a second embassy next to Parliament House in Canberra on grounds of national security. Backed by opposition MPs and…

Dutch company Royal HaskoningDHV has been selected by Besix Watpac, the Australian subsidiary of Belgium’s Besix Group, to act as the lead maritime design engineer for Sydney’s Circular Quay. The…