Here’s a quick rundown of this week’s top news and happenings in the construction industry. Each week, we’ll take a look at some of the interesting local, regional, and national stories about construction to keep you better informed of the goings-on in the industry.
The accompanying table records the top 10 project starts in the U.S. for July 2020.
Clichés are often true and it is the case that a picture can be worth a thousand words.
ConstructConnect announced today that the latest month’s volume of construction starts, excluding residential work, was $28.6 billion (green shaded box, Table 4 below), down nearly one-quarter (-23.1%) versus June’s figure of $37.2 billion (originally reported as $37.6 billion).
An Australian engineer has become the latest to be appointed to the board of an international engineering company.
The Planning Minister in New South Wales has slammed a paper which suggests that average building heights could be raised by up to 20 storeys in some Sydney suburbs, saying that the paper ignores wider costs associated with the removal of planning controls and relies excessively upon evidence presented by a property industry lobby group.
The City Council of Perth has been slammed as an explosive new report found that the city’s culture has been characterised, by dysfunction, self-interest, greed, incompetence, complacency and a lack of transparency and accountability.
A leading supplier of concrete and quarry products in Australia has signed an agreement to switch to renewable energy as the transition toward cleaner energy sources continues.
COVID-19 restrictions in Melbourne should be fine-tuned to allow greater numbers of finishing tradespeople to access building sites, a building industry lobby group says.
The engineer who led the investigation into building failures at the Mascot and Opal Towers is set to spearhead efforts to remove dodgy cladding in New South Wales.
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