Construction Equipment & Heavy Machinery Feature Articles

A Queensland building and construction company and its director are facing court over allegations they short-changed two young apprentices more than $32,000.

WorkSafe VIC inspectors have begun a month-long blitz targeting dangerous and sub-standard demolition work.

The latest Australian Industry Group/Australian Constructors Association Construction Outlook survey released suggests that an upturn in transport infrastructure activity will drive ...

Residential building approvals figures released recently by the ABS indicate that total dwelling approvals experienced a large decline during the month of September, said the Housing ...

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is searching for organisations that can find new ways to make use of someone else's construction and demolition waste.

Over the past fifteen years, Australians have paid $28 billion more than they budgeted for on transport infrastructure because of government reliance on outsourced advice.

After a sharp drop in August, the Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI®) regained 2.9 points to record a broadly stable 49.8 in ...

A western Sydney commercial flooring company has reimbursed an apprentice floor layer almost $25,000 after an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman found he had been underpaid ...

What causes workplace conflict? Well, in its broadest sense, human nature.

Essential Energy has been convicted and fined $300,000 following the death of an electrical worker at Bulahdelah in September 2013.

The Government continues to allow companies to source engineers from overseas when thousands of Australian based engineers struggle to find work.

"Ai Group is embarking on a major collaborative project that could reinvent apprenticeships in Australia."

A new $80 million gas pipeline project in southern Queensland would offer 170 jobs, State Development Minister Anthony Lynham said 7 September 2016.

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A Sydney roofing company and its director have been fined more than $60,000 after a worker was seriously injured when he fell from a roof in November 2014.

Improving Australia's tax system and changing the toxic culture in the building and construction industry need to be key priorities for the new Parliament, the Australian Chamber of ...

Victoria is officially Australia’s construction engine room with a $939 million (9.8 per cent) spike in activity in the year to June 2016.

A construction safety project that aims to improve safety and reduce red tape on Border construction sites has been hailed a success by NSW’s and Victoria’s safety regulators.

With eCommerce and an ever-growing market of impatient customers expecting everything yesterday, manufacturing has never faced more challenges.

WITH up to 1 in 3 fly-in fly-out workers reportedly experiencing mental health difficulties[1], suicide prevention organisation R U OK? is urging workmates to support one another ...