Australia’s construction industry is in bad shape and suffers from poor risk allocation and an adversarial culture, a new report has found.

Building skills and reviving manufacturing have emerged as critical themes for Labor as part of its plan to rebuild Australia’s economy after COVID.

Builders and developers across Australia would welcome this budget announcement but lament the lost opportunity to deal with the big fiscal issues.

By any measure, the Commonwealth Budget handed down last Tuesday was Australia’s most important in recent history.

A contractor’s daily reports are critical. In many instances, they are considered key evidence showing what actually occurred at specific times on the job. And since people’s memories fade, those … Read More

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When it comes to construction, it is extremely important to have control over finances. Though it is one of those industries that have shown significant growth during the last two decades, construction firms are expected to face maximum loss on profit margin due to improper project control.

U.S. GDP Bounce Back

After a change of -5.0% annualized in ‘real’ (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) in Q1 of this year, the U.S. economy plummeted -32.9% in Q2. Annualizing the number essentially means compounding the quarter-to-quarter change to obtain a yearly rate. (The result is usually close to multiplying by four.) The quarter-to-quarter change in Q2 was about -9.0%.

Yorkshire-based start-up Construction Automation has developed a bricklaying robot that has been put to work on its first test project: a three-bedroom house in the village of Everingham. The company said its Automatic Brick Laying Robot (ABLR) has been four years in development. It can…

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Work on the £100m Aura student accommodation development in Liverpool will restart after a deal was struck by investors to take the project out of administration. Following the arrest of developer Elliot Group’s founder Elliot Lawless at the end of 2019, work by contractor Vermont…

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The chief executive of materials supplier Breedon has left the business. Pat Ward, who has been CEO for the past five years, will be succeeded by the firm’s finance director Rob Wood. Ward revealed his intention to retire next year and re-join his family in…

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