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    By Casey McGuire
    May 26, 2025
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    Home building to rebound with interest rate cuts

    The number of homes starting construction in Australia is expected to increase over the next few years. It’s driven by population growth, low unemployment and falling ...
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  • NewsResearch
    By Casey McGuire
    February 27, 2025
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    SMEs continue to struggle with late payments, hurting the construction industry

    Data from CreditorWatch’s Business Risk Index indicates that late payments have reached their highest rate since March 2021 as overdue business-to-business payments continue to rise. Insolvencies ...
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  • NewsResearch
    By Casey McGuire
    February 18, 2025
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    Boral trials recycled end-of-life solar panels as sand for concrete

    Boral Limited has trialled recycled sand for concrete using crushed glass from end-of-life and damaged solar panels. It has been created for Victoria’s North East Link ...
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    By Casey McGuire
    February 10, 2025
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    Australian first study highlights rapid rise of silicosis in artificial stone work

    An Australian first Monash study shows the rapid rise of silicosis linked to artificial stonework. Australia is the first country to ban artificial stone in January ...
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  • NewsResearch
    By Casey McGuire
    January 22, 2025
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    New home construction rates show positive signs, still require vast increase

    Australia started construction on 43,247 new homes during the first three months of the National Housing Accord according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. These figures ...
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    By Sean Carroll
    December 3, 2024
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    Sustainable ‘cardboard’ homes could become resource-efficient temporary solution

    A pioneering approach to resource-efficient building design from several universities and industry partners could give people quicker access to high-quality temporary homes after disasters like flooding. ...
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  • Business MattersNewsResearch
    By San Williams
    November 6, 2024
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    Research shows commercial construction industry under immense pressure

    The commercial construction industry is undergoing immense pressure with unprecedented demand and worker shortages amid nationwide residential construction drive according to a study by E1. The ...
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  • Business MattersNewsResearch
    By San Williams
    October 11, 2024
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    Quarterly data reveals decline in apprentices and trainees in training

    The latest data released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) has revealed a decline in the total number of apprentices and trainees in-training ...
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  • MaterialNewsResearchSustainability
    By San Williams
    October 1, 2024
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    Coffee concrete debuts in major infrastructure project

    An innovation developed at RMIT University has been used for the first time in its major infrastructure project after being laid into a footpath along a ...
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  • NewsResearch
    By San Williams
    September 24, 2024
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    Engineers design flat-pack tube ‘origami’ building material

    This breakthrough was made possible by a self-locking system inspired by curved-crease origami, a technique that uses curved crease lines in paper folding. Lead researchers Ting-Uei ...
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