As the federal election looms, the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) has confirmed that the process of issuing the 2025 update of the National Construction Code (NCC 2025) has been delayed. In a ...
The latest report comes amid growing concern that Australia will fail to deliver the national housing target of 1.2 million ...
The Housing Industry Association has released the 2025 edition of its Taxation of the Housing Sector report. The report ...
The most significant reduction occurred in the building and construction manufacturing subsector. In this subsector, average ...
Multinational air quality solutions provider IQAir has released the 2024 edition of its annual World Air Quality Report. The report is based on data from more than 40,000 air quality monitoring ...
Use of locally made steel should be mandated on state and federal infrastructure projects across Australia, the nation’s welding industry says. As the United States has imposed 25 percent tariffs on ...
Design stage and pre-contract QS services now include embodied carbon measurement, benchmarking, carbon budgets and risk allocation for carbon pricing. Defining the amount of carbon emissions ...
In the early 2000s, significant building industry reforms were implemented following the 2001 collapse of HIH, which prior to its collapse was Australia’s second largest insurer. This led to the ...
Speaking at the launch of the More Houses Sooner: Australian Housing Demand & Timber Use Scenarios to 2034 report published by Forest & Wood Products Australia, Nerida Conisbee, Chief Economist at Ray ...
Increasingly, carbon accounting and carbon cost management is being promoted as a service by construction cost planners as being complementary to the more traditional cost management on projects. Dr ...