Australasia
Building
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Balfour Beatty consortium wins £535m Australian rail contract
21 Dec 11
Scheme will see contractor work on track for first metropolitan rail line in Melbourne for 80 years
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Work begins on Rogers Stirk Harbour's £3.3bn Barangaroo development
1 Nov 11
New South Wales premier Barry O’Farrell calls project “a shot in the arm” to revinvigorate Sydney
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SKM targets ‘global transport brand’ after acquisition
21 Oct 11
Australia-based consultant sets out expansion plans after Mouchel Rail buy
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Jestico + Whiles bags Sydney university job
3 Oct 11
Architect will design the new Australian Institute of Nanoscience
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Sweett house goes walkabout in Melbourne
24 Aug 11
Australian project managers tackle the tricky move of a century-old heritage house
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Turner and Townsend bags Sydney Rail Link contract
29 Jul 11
Consultant will provide cost planning services on 23km suburban line
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Trading normal despite Middle East turmoil, says Hyder
6 Apr 11
Internationally focused consultant says Bahrain office is now fully operational again
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Lend Lease poaches Laing O'Rourke Australian boss
25 March 2011
Andrew Wilson appointed by Lend Lease as managing director on a £3.7bn project in Sydney
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Brisbane calls for UK builders
04 March 2011
Australia calls for contractors to help rebuild the city after new year floods
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A guide to Queensland's construction law
2 Sep 10
Australia is one of the few places in the world experiencing something of a building boom and if you’re a UK firm keen to get involved, you might like to go to Queensland, where things are pleasantly familiar.
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Keller buys Australian marine ground engineering specialist for £21m
10 Jun 10
Groundworks firm expands down under with acquisition of £31m-turnover Waterfront Services
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Amec to buy Currie & Brown Australian arm for £20m
29 Jan 10
Consultant says move will enable it to fund expansion into other international markets
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Laing O'Rourke seals £154m rail deal in Australia
14 Jan 10
Contractor teams up with O'Donnell Griffin to upgrade rail infrastructure in Victoria, Australia
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Davis Langdon buys Australian consultancy
9 Dec 09
Firm sees buy as way into disabled access consultancy
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Waterman reports signs of recovery in Australia
19 Nov 09
Engineering consultant says trading is 'in line with expectations' but implies it may cut more jobs
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Gleeds sells Australian division to MBO
3 Nov 09
The new practice Lucrum Consulting will take on £2bn of Gleeds projects
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Pedestrian bridge opens in Brisbane
13 Oct 09
Cox Rayner Architects and Arup team up to produce world's largest 'tensegrity' bridge in Australia
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Nakheel sells stake in Australian developer
27 Aug 09
Dubai developer makes loss on sale of shares in Mirvac undertaken to help repay debt
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Amec to acquire Australian firm GRD for £52m
20 Jul 09
Engineering-based firm focused on mineral projects in Australia, Africa and South America will boost consultant's global strength
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RPS buys Australian surveyor for £31m
1 Jul 09
Consultant acquires £38m-turnover planning and surveying firm Conics
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Abu Dhabi and Australian joint venture collapses
18 Jun 09
Economic slowdown in UAE blamed for breakdown of JV collaboration
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Zaha: Surfer's Paradise transit centre
08 May 2009
Hadid's previously unpublished proposal for a transit centre in Queensland in collaboration with Patrik Schumacher
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Australian PM pledges total rebuilding after bushfires
10 Feb 09
Kevin Rudd says no cap will be placed on federal spending in reconstruction of devastated neighbourhoods
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Pigeons attempt to join Dubai exodus – in a pair of tights
3 Feb 09
Australian arrives at Melbourne airport with illegal migrant birds down his trousers
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Broker warns of Leighton's 'high risk' Dubai exposure
20 Jan 09
£1.8bn of Australian firm's Dubai contracts believed to be 'at high risk' of delay or cancellation
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How to move to Australia
7 Jan 09
Mike Cheeseman, 47, is a British surveyor who moved to Australia two-and-a-half years ago
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Australia's Leighton warns of 60% profit plunge
7 Jan 09
Writedowns will have big impact on interim results, warns Australia's top contractor
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Property sector salaries rise by 10% in Asia Pacific
8 Dec 08
Despite the global downturn, survey reveals that pay for property professionals has risen in region
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Laing O'Rourke venture wins £420m Australian rail contract
25 Nov 08
Novo consortium appointed to five-year infrastructure project in New South Wales
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Balfour Beatty wins £82m power line deal in New Zealand
25 Nov 08
Construction of 186km transmission line is part of JV with Australian engineer United Group
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Australia plans A$420m solar power station at Victoria
6 Nov 08
Testing on technology for plant begins at new R&D facility at Bendigo
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New A$1.5bn railway to link Melbourne and Geelong
6 Nov 08
Australian government's national transport plan to include 20km new link to West
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Business failures feared after Sydney schemes stall
6 Nov 08
Partly built properties left precarious after funding crisis forces developer Citadel to halt work
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View from my office: Maureen Jackson
10 Oct 08
The Davis Langdon director of urban planning is determined to deal with Melbourne’s population explosion
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Davis Langdon completes major Australian PPP scheme
17 Sep 08
Consultant completes work on 39km Eastlink motorway in Melbourne
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Peter Zumthor wins art world’s Nobel Prize
16 Sep 08
Swiss architect announced winner at Japan’s Praemium Imperiale Laureates
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Tongji-Cardiff join forces for sustainable architectural student scheme
11 Sep 08
Welsh and Shanghai universities challenge students to design sustainable housing in Shanghai through MMC
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Scott Wilson opens Sydney office
4 Sep 08
Consultant to provide services to ports and rail sectors in Australia
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T&T wins Sydney transport job
27 Aug 08
Consultant appointed as cost adviser on £5.6bn North West Metro project
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Terry Farrell wins first New Zealand project
4 Aug 08
Sir Terry Farrell's practice beats off Foster, Gehry and SOM to masterplan 5ha slice of central Auckland
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Australia welcomes UK and Irish construction workers with new visas
14 Jul 08
Government makes changes to Second Working Holiday Visa to encourage construction workers in light of recent credit crunch
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Ex-Alfred McAlpine civils chief heads down under
5 Jun 08
Steve Smith will oversee construction division of Australia's biggest contractor, Leighton
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Zaha Hadid replaced Down Under by Foster + Partners
14 May 08
Hadid dropped from £720m Melbourne project in favour of Foster
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Sydney Opera House
2008 Issue 15
Client: Sydney Opera House Trust
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Opus acquires Joynes Pike Group
25 Mar 08
Nottingham-based engineer becomes part of Antipodean multidisciplinary consulting group
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Rider Levett Bucknall QS on £400m Australian hospital
31 Jan 08
Consultant could be working on the largest PPP project in Queensland
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Council House 2, Melbourne: Australia’s greenest office building
29 Jan 08
Council House 2, an administrative building for the City of Melbourne, is the first in the country to achieve the highest possible rating of six stars in Australia’s Green Star environmental accreditation. It is now influencing a new era of office design
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First major Green Star project in South Australia
28 Jan 08
Situated in Mount Gambier, South Australia, ForestrySA is the first local government building to achieve a 5 Green Star Certification in the region
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WSP buys Fitzwalter Group for £1.9m
31 Jul 07
Australian enivornmental project manager is the latest southern hemisphere business to be bought by WSP
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WSP acquires Australian consultant for £9.8m
10 Jul 07
WSP continues expansion into sourthern hemisphere after it snaps up low-energy environmental consultant Lincolne Scotte Group
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RICS frustrated by failure of visa campaign
2007 issue 01
RICS launches a fresh campaign against visa restrictions imposed on QSs coming to the UK from outside the EU
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Dream house Down Under
2006 issue 47
When Paul and Jaki Halliday decided to leave London’s traffic-clogged rat’s maze for the hills of New South Wales, they celebrated by commissioning their ideal home. Martin Spring explains how their compatriot, Alan Higgs, designed it
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One thousand perforations in every bridge … Webb Bridge, Melbourne
2004 issue 17
A bridge for pedestrians and cyclists designed by architect Denton Corker Marshall opened last month in Melbourne's Docklands area. The Webb Bridge's sculpted form was prebuilt and brought on site by barge. Dramatic lighting at night makes the perforated steel cladding appear transparent. The project team working for Docklands Authority included artist Robert Owen and structural engineer Arup.
