After 336,000 project hours worked, a major upgrade of the Capricorn Highway between Rockhampton and Gracemere is officially complete. Fulton Hogan Construction was the principal contractor for the $74.99 million project, jointly funded by the federal and State governments. Federal Member for Capricornia Michelle Landry said motorists had seen this important freight and commuter link… ...
Australian timber and building supplier Big River Group has been among the businesses playing a part in the $514.3 million Haughton River Floodplain Upgrade on the Bruce Highway. Due for completion in late 2021, the project includes the replacement of three bridges for wider, higher-level bridges, the construction of two new bridges and two highway… ...
Plans for the $300 million Cairns Western Arterial Rd duplication are advancing towards a 2022 start for construction, with designs options now out for public feedback. The business case for the project linking the Smithfield and Redlynch will be released in October 2021. The staged project between the Captain Cook Highway and Lake Placid Rd… ...
Douglas Shire Council today endorsed a $50 million operating budget and a $16.047 million capital works program in the 2021/22 Annual Budget. It includes increases in utility and waste collection charges by 3.3 and 5.38 percent respectively and a general rate increase of 2.8 percent. Across the next 12 months, Council will spend $19.045 million… ...
The Federal Government has earmarked $709,000 towards upgrading the intersection of Upward and Draper streets in Cairns in the latest round of Black Spot project funding. Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch said Cairns Regional Council had nominated the intersection for funding. “I am pleased to see this significant intersection upgrade will be delivered under the… ...
Comments open on Bruce Highway priorities and National Construction Code, local government project news, and more in this week’s round-up. BMD close to wrapping up Carmichael rail works BMD’s civil works component of the Carmichael Rail Network project in Central Queensland is set to be complete in around three months. BMD said this week that… ...
Australian taxpayers are paying too much for major road and rail projects because governments don’t drive a hard bargain on contracts with the big construction firms, according to a new Grattan Institute report. With Australia’s transport infrastructure costs weighing in above the global average, the ‘Megabang for megabucks’ report pointed the finger at a culture… ...
A Queensland company has been banned from tendering for Federal Government work for one month and a second company received a formal warning after Australian Building and Construction Commission investigations. Industrial Relations Minister Michaela Cash has issued a one-month exclusion sanction against MCP (AUS) Pty Ltd. It comes after a mobile concrete pump truck with… ...
Safety improvement works kick off this month on the Barkly Highway between Cloncurry and Mount Isa. The $7.58 million project is funded through the Queensland Government’s High Risk Roads Initiative, as part of the Targeted Road Safety Program. A Transport and Main Roads spokeswoman said RoadTek was undertaking the work to widen a 4km section… ...
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