March

Abigroup wins earthworks for Vic wind farm

Abigroup has been appointed to deliver the civil balance of plant component including roadworks and wind turbine foundation structures for a 63MW wind farm at Oaklands Hill near Glenthompson, 270km west of Melbourne.

Big grunt vehicles clear traffic spills

Believed to be an Australian first, Queensland has brought some ‘big grunt’ to bear to its road accident clean-up service in the form of new heavy vehicle response units or HVRUs at a cost of $6.5m.

Cat Rental Store goes all out to plant Sugarloaf pipeline

Successfully winning the plant and equipment rental contract on one of the country’s biggest infrastructure jobs, has seen Victorian Caterpillar dealer William Adams’ Cat Rental Store, meet every equipment demand of the fast tracked project, the company says.

Governments recognise education, training systems reforms are needed

In the last few weeks I have spent quite a bit of time talking with our federal politicians in Canberra about issues concerning our industry.

CCF wins new methods for claiming fuel tax credits

After extensive consultation with industry the Australian Taxation Office has added two new calculation methods for claiming fuel tax credits. The two now approved are the alternative percentage use and the average fuel consumption rate methods.

Conference hears Australia is ready for high-speed rail

Informa’s AusRail conference in Adelaide in November was told that Australia should be considering high-speed rail as an alternative to air travel.

Goulburn River water starts flowing to Melbourne

Water from the 1.75m diameter and 70km long Sugarloaf Pipeline last week started flowing into Melbourne’s reservoirs, five months ahead of schedule.

JCB, Volvo join forces to make skidsteers

JCB and Volvo have agreed to cooperate on engineering and making skidsteers and compact tracked loaders, for distribution under their respective brands and through their respective global dealer networks.

The Rudd honeymoon is over

The dream run the federal government has enjoyed since being elected in November 2007 has finally come to an end.

Vantage graders offer unrivalled visibility

Komatsu Australia’s national business manager Kevin Edwards, says the key advance in the company’s two new Dash 5 Vantage graders, is the best cab visibility of any grader on the market.

Contracts Let - March 2010