Wages stir as building projects boom
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The infrastructure boom could last longer than the mining boom, engineers have forecast as rising job vacancies on hundreds of projects around the country push up wages.
The infrastructure boom could last longer than the mining boom, engineers have forecast as rising job vacancies on hundreds of projects around the country push up wages.
The figures show the continued turning of the construction industry as infrastructure work picks up the slack of a retreating residential sector.
Developer said late architect's personal involvement in the project helped get it over the planning line.
Sweeping recommendation tries to resolve problems of a construction industry with no clear lines of responsibility or accountability.
One consequence for the construction industry of non-compliant cladding could be to push privatised building surveyors out of the chain.
Fifteen parties have signed confidentiality agreements to examine the books of collapsed privately owned contractor Ostwald Brothers, which rode high on the coal seam gas boom in Queensland earlier this decade.
One hundred and fifty Downer retail investors have signed a resolution asking the company to stop taking on coal projects.
Shell has brought into production the next big lick of coal seam gas from its Queensland operations.
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