With the Coalition likely to form a majority government, Inside Construction looks into how its First Home Loan Deposit Scheme could impact the construction industry. In a move to help first home buyers, the Coalition announced the First Home Loan Deposit scheme a week before the election, which Labor quickly endorsed. The scheme aims to …
Project Spotlight: Mirvac unveils Calibre
Inside Construction speaks to Richard Seddon, Mirvac’s General Manager Industrial, about the construction of its new logistics hub in Western Sydney. By 2031, Roads and Maritime Services expectsRead More
Tomorrow’s construction technology will be connected, electrified and diesel
During bauma, one of the largest global construction expos, all manner of future technologies were on display, including the latest advanced diesel technology innovations. New products from earthmovingRead More
What industry is saying about the Budget
Although the Morrison government has committed $100 billion for infrastructure projects over the next decade in the Federal Budget, not all areas of the construction sector are happy. At the core of theRead More
Top trends and challenges facing the construction industry
Inside Construction speaks to Callan Mantell, Area VP for Oracle Construction and Engineering about the trends and challenges facing the construction industry in 2019. Technology will play aRead More
What Australian builders can learn from Brexit and Europe
Australia’s residential construction sector is suffering from a significant downturn with activity levels declining at the fastest pace in over six years with apartment construction one of the worst-hitRead More
World’s longest floating bridge and floating underwater traffic tunnel
To drive the west coast of Norway, from the city of Kristiansand in the south to the city of Trondheim, currently takes about 21 hours and requires seven ferry crossings. To halve the travel time, theRead More
CFOs must take a leadership role to transform construction
Inside Construction speaks to Warren Zietsman, Managing Director for IFS in Australia & New Zealand, about why finance in the construction industry needs to take an active role in capturing data andRead More
Skills shortage pushes up construction costs as activity hits 10 year high
Construction activity reaches a ten-year high but skilled labour shortages push up construction costs. A report from Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) confirms the first Quarter 2019 confirmed skills shortagesRead More
Smartphone technology monitoring infrastructure
A recently released paper from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA examines the opportunity for modern day smartphones, in the hands of the generalRead More