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Of course the ability to bear risk will be determined by who the client is, the scale of the project, its complexity, the unknowns and the usual suspects of time plus quality...

                        On September 1, the Australian Procurement and Construction Council (APCC) launched a 64-page guide to assist architects and builders in developing a...

Every square metre of flammable cladding covering tens of thousands of Australian apartment buildings contains the equivalent of five litres of petrol, an investigation by ABC TV...

                    In announcing an inquiry into the state’s building and construction industry earlier this month, New South Wales Finance Minister Greg Pearce said he wants to...

Melbourne's controversial Federation Square building has been granted heritage status, protecting the space for its "historical, aesthetic, technological and social significance"...

The blame for this calamity is unequivocally with those responsible for leadership failure: the senior departmental executives who formulated atrocious policies and the...

Independent engineer, builder and surveyor George Cross said he agreed to approve the occu­pancy of the $250 million women’s centre following the discovery of the cladding only...

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  RMIT University's city campus has developed a reputation for heroic contemporary architecture. In the early 1990s Edmond and Corrigan's Building 8 in Swanston Street shook up...

SCA chief executive Kim Henshaw said state and federal governments needed to get on board to tackle the issue before there was a repeat of the Lacrosse apartment fire in...

Following the airing of Monday’s Four Corners program, which detailed a litany of problems with the building and construction sector, the Australian Institute of Architects has...

The ban also applies to commercial office buildings, industrial buildings or retail buildings four storeys or more in height for Class A construction and three storeys or more in...