Construction
Taxpayers to stump up $112 million for billionaires’ East Perth power station vision
The jump is the latest in two years of incremental cost increases scattered throughout budget papers and mid-year reviews.
- by Hamish Hastie
Latest
Combustible cladding still present at Perth hospitals, unis and schools
Supply chain delays and high demand have been blamed for delays in replacing potentially flammable cladding on public buildings.
- by Sarah Brookes
Grenfell’s wake: Perth unit owners forced to pay $1m for cladding as builders fold
Perth apartment owners are still living in developments using the deadly cladding found on Grenfell Tower while others have been forced to put their hand into their own pocket to fix the costly problem after a spate of builders went bust.
- by Sarah Brookes
‘Right leader for next stage’: Seven’s Ryan Stokes backs in new Boral CEO
Former Cleanaway CEO Vik Bansal left the company under a cloud of bullying allegations.
- by Angus Dalton
‘On a tightrope’: Construction industry creaking under pressure
There are real fears that increasing material costs, labour shortages and interest rate rises will push many in the industry over the edge.
- by Sarah Danckert and Simon Johanson
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Sydney councils
It’s down tools as NSW government backtracks on Sunday construction
The government will not extend standard construction hours but may change guidelines to allow councils to do so if they want.
- by Michael Koziol
The Block rocked by home building crisis
The perfect storm of supply chain issues, material shortages, an employment squeeze and even the invasion of Ukraine is the greatest threat to the completion of the TV renovation series in its history.
- by Stephen Brook
Housing
Inflation
‘We’re stuck’: Timber tariffs to add to building industry chaos, delays
The building industry will have its main source of a special timber dry up after October, adding to already long delays for builders and consumers.
- by Jackson Graham and Stephen Brook
Pilbara gas plant price jumps $420 million as COVID hits supply chains
The cost to build Perdaman’s controversial fertiliser plant on WA’s Burrup Peninsula has jumped after Italian construction giant Saipem struck problems.
- by Peter Milne
Metricon’s shareholders inject $30m, CBA strikes new deal
Advisers to the country’s biggest home builder have been working on a new funding deal following the death of its founder and rumours of financial instability.
- by Sarah Danckert and Tom Rabe
As temperatures go through the roof, are our homes fit for summer?
Western Sydney councils are building evacuation centres in Sydney’s heat bowl as experts raise the alarm that newly built homes are not fit for Australian summers.
- by Tawar Razaghi