The builder completes a construction stage and raises a progress claim. Day zero. Under Section 17.5 of the standard HIA ...

New Victorian Premier Ben Caroll has appointed the Honourable Chris Kourakis AC as Royal Commissioner in respect of the Royal Commission into crime and misconduct in Victoria’s construction industry.

All up, the plan aims to deliver 800,000 new homes across the Sydney Metropolitan region over the new twenty years. On this ...

PFAS is now recognised globally for what it is: a persistent, far‑reaching chemical risk and a hazardous legacy of past decisions. The question for Australia is no longer whether PFAS is a technical ...

The Federal Government has proposed changes to trust laws, which will compel many small businesses to restructure. These are ...

Australia needs to effectively manage moisture as new homes become more energy efficient and airtight, an industry forum has heard. At the HIA Futures Forum in Melbourne last month, Rob Petruzzi, ...

The first tracks are set to be laid on one of Sydney’s biggest railway projects. Tracklaying is soon to begin at Sydney Olympic Park as part of construction of the New South Wales Government’s Sydney ...

Australia’s most famous and iconic building is set for a major upgrade as the national icon gets set for a $120 million program of works. The New South Wales Government has announced that the Sydney ...

Australia still has a shortage of tradespeople across every construction trade, a new report indicates. The Housing Industry Association has released the June quarter edition of its HIA Trades Report.

The commercial outcome for a data centre development is driven less by the building itself than by the power, cooling, resilience and operational systems that the building is designed to support. For ...

The vision has always been compelling. Smarter factories. Better quality. Fewer defects. Higher productivity. Yet for most manufacturers, that revolution never quite arrived. The issue has never been ...

More home building contracts are being cancelled across Australia as market confidence slumps in response to interest rate rises, new data shows. And builders expect sales to slump further following ...