Author: Sean Carroll
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Queensland home wins HIA’s highest national housing award
JW Constructions in Queensland won the pinnacle award at the 2022 HIA-CSR Australian Housing Awards, being presented the HIA-CSR Australian Home of the Year award for ... -
Victorian ventilation grant for small businesses in effect
The Victorian government is providing $60 million for eligible public-facing small businesses to improve ventilation. This assistance has been created to help small businesses follow new ... -
CFMEU: ACT construction must improve silicosis control measures
The ACT government’s newly announced work health and safety reforms for silica dust are critical to trying to control the scourge of the deadly lung disease, ... -
Step up with the new NCC CPD course on stairways in buildings
Building, designing and verifying National Construction Code (NCC) compliance of stairways, is important for safe movement to and within a building. Stairways are a common building ... -
New partnership takes the heat out of cladding
With more than 200 NSW residential apartment buildings registered to have flammable cladding removed through Project Remediate, Engineering Education Australia (EEA) has partnered with the Office ... -
ABCB releases two CPDs on passive fire protection
The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) has released two continuing professional development (CPD) courses on fire safety systems and passive fire protection. Fire protection practitioners play an important ... -
From lab to slab: rubber concrete flexes into the residential market
Working with RMIT University, researchers demonstrated that crumb rubber concrete is a safe, green alternative for residential construction in Australia, proving a much-needed new market for ... -
Wage subsidy extension a big win for employers, apprentices and trainees
MEGT, Australia’s largest and only national Apprenticeship Network Provider (ANP), has welcomed the federal government’s extension of the Boosting Apprenticeships Commencements (BAC) wage subsidy. The subsidy, ... -
HIA: Expanded home guarantee scheme supports home ownership
HIA managing director Graham Wolfe says that the extension of the first home loan despoit scheme and the new home guarantee scheme will make a real ... -
Combatting pressures on the Australian building industry
The past month has seen the fall of two construction companies, Probuild in February, and Condev last week, both attributed to unsustainably high material costs. An ...
