November

Coming events

 

“To Buckle down” had resonance for successful landscaper

It was 17 years ago when Tim Buckle, armed only with an education in horticulture and stonemasonry, a shovel and a can-do attitude, first registered the name “Landscape Solutions.”

Rental breakdown has silver lining for Carnegie Hire

IRONICALLY, a recent rental product breakdown has turned out to be a positive for Victorian equipment hire business, Carnegie Hire.

A pair of “aces” perform on casino’s roof

Contractor Inside & Out Demolition, hit the jackpot by hiring two 3.5t excavators for a large landsce demolition project on the roof of Melbourne’s Crown Casino.

Rubble Master set for industry upturn

Rubble Master, Austria’s global market leader for mobile compact crushers, will be going into 2010 with new strengths, according to founder and CEO Gerald Hanisch.

Superior software helps civil engineering recruiter grow

Having two software developers on staff, has helped Queensland’s Skye Recruitment, develop a bespoke IT system that greatly reduces its consultants’ admin time, and therefore helps them be significantly happier and more productive.

Brisbane venue for piling conference

The Piling and Deep Foundations ’09 conference, developed on the back of the unprecedented success this event has had in Dubai, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia, will be held from 30 November to 2 December 2009 at The Sebel and Citigate, King George Square, Brisbane.

Homebush Bay shows degraded sites can be cleaned up

The successful remediation of one of Australia’s most notoriously contaminated waterways, proves that even heavily-contaminated sediment and soil can be salvaged, an expert from Thiess Services told the CleanUp ’09 Conference in Adelaide at the end of September.

From the CCF CEO: Dealing with CPRS, climate change and NGER

There are a range of issues arising under what might be loosely termed “Climate Change”. To enable us to consider what we might do as an organisation we need to step through them.

From the CCF President: 35m reasons to get infrastructure planning right

As I start my term as the new president, one statistic really caught my attention recently – Australia will be home on current projections to some 35m people by 2050.

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Perth conference an unqualified success

The Civil Contractors Federation's annual conference is over for another year and very successful it was too.