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- Fremantle prepares for next phase of dredging task
- The $250m port of Fremantle harbour deepening project will recommence in July amid hopes to have phase two of the task completed in November.
- Hunter Valley opens third coal rail track
- A $130m project to increase capacity on the Hunter Valley coal lines has been completed with the official opening of the third rail track at Wittingham’s Minimbah Bank.
- Engineers should provide ‘thought leadership’
- Australian engineers should bite the bullet and provide leadership in the new public policy agenda emerging in Australia such as planning and defining future population growth.
- KBR to design Qld biofuels plant
- KBR announced on Tuesday that it has been chosen to provide engineering services for a Queensland fuel from algae pilot plant.
- Mining, heavy industry construction set to fall 3% in 2010/11
- According to BIS Shrapnel’s Mining and Heavy Industry Construction in Australia, 2009/10 – 2023/24 report, overall mining and heavy industry construction is expected to fall 3% in 2010/11, the first such decline since 2004.
- New fairness in contracting legislation starts July 1
- All businesses which use standard form, non-negotiated contracts and all businesses which transact with consumers, will be affected by fairness in contracting legislation to be proclaimed on July 1.
- Perth paver powers ahead with Dynapac
- A recently delivered Dynapac F6-4W paves the way for housing in Perth’s newest northern suburbs to meet the latest surge in population.
- Reviving old buildings reaps benefits
- Architectural firm Peddle Thorp has called on developers to stop knocking down buildings and look instead to reviving existing structures.
