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Plans lodged for $45m Skinny Hotel – 9.5m wide
Confidence in Sydney’s hotel market continues to grow as a global fund manager lodges plans for a new slim-profile hotel on Castlereagh Street. LaSalle Investment Management acquired the Central Square complex at...
CPB Contractors delivers Port Wakefield Overpass four months ahead of schedule
Motorists are using the Port Wakefield Overpass four months ahead of schedule, benefiting from CPB Contractors’ commitment to disciplined delivery on the Port Wakefield to Port Augusta Alliance (PW2PA). Having reached...
Sydney Harbour Bridge turns 90
Weighing in at 52,800 tonnes and held fast by six million hand-driven rivets, Sydney Harbour Bridge officially opened for business in the midst of the Great Depression on Saturday, March...
Plans Filed for $225m North Sydney Office Tower
Sydney-based private investor Ying Yu has filed plans for a 37-storey office tower for the George Patterson House site in North Sydney. Her company Dynasty ABC Investment Holdings has now...
Longest escalator in southern hemisphere part of Central Station’s $955 million upgrade
Sydney’s Central Station will be home to the largest escalator in the southern hemisphere as part of a total overhaul of the country’s busiest train station. The 45-metre stairs are just...
Building permits worth $44.6 billion were issued in 2021
More than 12,700 building permits were issued in 2021, the first time domestic permits have topped 100,000 in a calendar year in Victoria. Victorian Building Authority (VBA) data shows 127,792...
The $3 billion project will create up to 400 construction jobs
Huge news for South Australia’s renewable energy sector with French company, Neoen, commencing construction work on the first stage of Australia’s biggest wind, solar and battery project near Burra in...
Ashe Morgan Plots Australia’s Biggest Rooftop Park
Australia’s largest elevated park will be part of a development of one of the last significant land parcels in the Waterfront City precinct at Docklands. The 8000sq m public park...
Team work at it’s best
How do you reroute and realign a 3km section of railway lines in just 20 days? Our CPB Contractors team working on Perth’s METRONET’s Thornlie-Cockburn Link will tell you that...
A preferred bidder named for $605M Frankston Hospital
The bigger, better $605M Frankston Hospital for families in Melbourne’s south-east is a step closer – with a preferred bidder named. The preferred consortium, ‘Exemplar Health’ includes Capella Capital as...
$32.5 million – Highpoint Aesthetic Upgrade
Maben Group was engaged by GPT Group to manage the design and construction of the aesthetic upgrade project at Highpoint Shopping Centre. Congratulations to the Highpoint Aesthetic Upgrade delivery team...
NEXTDC M2 stage 5 data centre project
PROJECT UPDATE Congratulations to the Kapitol Group project team, contractors and subbies at the NEXTDC M2 stage 5 data centre project for topping out. It’s been a mammoth effort to...