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Coe calls for planning reform

Won’t anyone think of the property developers? Well, the Liberals Alistair Coe is bravely taking up cudgels on their behalf: Shadow Minister for Planning and Infrastructure Alistair Coe will call on...

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How can we build houses that better withstand bushfires?

By Douglas Brown As we are currently witnessing, transferring the suburban house into a setting susceptible to bushfires causes a lot of problems. Put simply: if you are going to live in a bushfire...

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Liberals say “I told you so” on Leave Variation Charges

It seems simple enough. If someone is getting a windfall from the public kindly letting them build apartments on a chunk of land that was not zoned for it when they bought it then they owe the public...

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Site sign on? There’s an app for that!

UC is celebrating the work of Alexandria Garlan and Mitchell Harmer: Creating an app for construction workers to sign on or off site using just their smart phone has won University of Canberra...

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Barr’s infrastructure build

Andrew Barr is letting us know about his plans to build build build: Today I released the 2013-14 Update of the ACT Government Infrastructure Plan detailing the continued significant investment being...

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Andrew Barr salutes Canberra’s developers

For too long Canberra’s builders have gone without the recognition they deserve, comforted only by their enormous amounts of money. Now Andrew Barr has announced an end to this historic injustice: This...

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Simon wants a conversation about the construction industry

Simon Corbell is kicking off a consultation on Canberra’s construction industry: The ACT Government is calling on interested parties to contribute to a discussion paper on the regulation of...

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Complete Cotter Dam expansion construction time lapse!

Four minutes and forty five seconds of construction porn glory! This time lapse video captures the four year construction of the Cotter Dam. The wall is 80 metres high, with the enlarged reservoir now...

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Arrested Development for Majura Parkway

Work on the $288 million Majura Parkway extension halted last week after Canberra-based construction company Hewatt Earthworks entered into voluntary administration, according to an article in the...

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New measures to stimulate construction

The ACT Government has announced that it will award $10 million dollars worth of ‘ready-now’ construction contracts and make further cuts to red-tape for the construction industry as part of a new ACT...

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Burch under pressure as ACT Policing investigate media reports

ACT Policing are investigating Fairfax Media reports that ACT Police Minister Joy Burch’s most senior adviser briefed Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union ACT Secretary Dean Hall on the...

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Burch quits police, emergency services portfolios

Embattled ACT Government Minister Joy Burch has this afternoon resigned from the Police and Emergency Services portfolios as ACT Policing investigate Fairfax Media reports that her most senior adviser...

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Liberals say “I told you so” on Leave Variation Charges

It seems simple enough. If someone is getting a windfall from the public kindly letting them build apartments on a chunk of land that was not zoned for it when they bought it then they owe the public...

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Site sign on? There’s an app for that!

UC is celebrating the work of Alexandria Garlan and Mitchell Harmer: Creating an app for construction workers to sign on or off site using just their smart phone has won University of Canberra students...

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Barr’s infrastructure build

Andrew Barr is letting us know about his plans to build build build: Today I released the 2013-14 Update of the ACT Government Infrastructure Plan detailing the continued significant investment being...

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Andrew Barr salutes Canberra’s developers

For too long Canberra’s builders have gone without the recognition they deserve, comforted only by their enormous amounts of money. Now Andrew Barr has announced an end to this historic injustice: This...

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Simon wants a conversation about the construction industry

Simon Corbell is kicking off a consultation on Canberra’s construction industry: The ACT Government is calling on interested parties to contribute to a discussion paper on the regulation of...

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Complete Cotter Dam expansion construction time lapse!

Four minutes and forty five seconds of construction porn glory! This time lapse video captures the four year construction of the Cotter Dam. The wall is 80 metres high, with the enlarged reservoir now...

View Article

Arrested Development for Majura Parkway

Work on the $288 million Majura Parkway extension halted last week after Canberra-based construction company Hewatt Earthworks entered into voluntary administration, according to an article in the...

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New measures to stimulate construction

The ACT Government has announced that it will award $10 million dollars worth of ‘ready-now’ construction contracts and make further cuts to red-tape for the construction industry as part of a new ACT...

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