6 November 2009 | Leighton Holdings has recorded a solid operating performance in a year which was impacted by the impairment of asset values. The Group earned a profit after tax of $440 million after impairments and is the third largest profit ever made by the company.
14 October 2009 | The new risks climate change presents for the infrastructure industry will reshape its future and lead to an evolution in industry practice and contractual risk allocation.
3 August 2009 | Job cuts among building and engineering professionals appears to be peaking thanks to a host of major federal and state infrastructure projects across Australia.
14 July 2009 | Construction workers stand to benefit from the federal government's move to bring the guidelines for the code covering taxpayer-funded construction projects into line with the new Fair Work Act, says unions.
1 July 2009 | The Engineering Employers Association South Australia has officially merged with the Australian Industry Group to become the Ai Group South Australia branch.
25 June 2009 | Businesses are facing a double whammy at the moment - a slowing economic cycle together with a global credit crisis. All organisations, including contractors, are facing not just a scarcity of funds, but a rising cost of capital as well.
23 June 2009 | Australia's construction industry is headed for another skills shortage, according to Troy Williams, CEO of Skill360 Australia, a Group Training Organisation that employs trainees and apprentices and places them with host employers across a range of industry sectors.
18 June 2009 | The civil construction sector will be relatively unaffected by the current economic downturn - particularly in comparison with the residential and non-residential building sectors - says the Australian Construction Industry Forum's Construction Forecasting Council.
17 June 2009 | The NSW Budget confirms the impact of the global financial crisis, but the lack of progress on new state-building infrastructure projects shows that tough reforms will be required to get NSW back on track, says Infrastructure Partnerships Australia.
16 June 2009 | Premier, Nathan Rees, has announced that the NSW budget will support up to 160,000 jobs a year through a $62.9 billion building program over the next four years - the largest infrastructure investment in the state's history.
12 June 2009 | "Improving the state's roads is the central infrastructure priority for the Queensland government in next week's budget if it is to improve the productivity of Queensland industry and help it manage through the economic downturn," says Ai Group Queensland director, Chris Rodwell.
14 May 2009 | The federal government is investing $22 billion in nation building infrastructure in order to help Australia survive the economic downturn and improve the nation's transport, communications, health and education facilities.
13 May 2009 | Investing in Australia's infrastructure has been described as the "centrepiece for the 2009-10 Budget" by the Australian government.
2 April 2009 | More than 75,000 construction jobs could be lost due to a sharp fall in building activity, according to the latest forecasts from the Australian Construction Industry Forum's Construction Forecasting Council.
3 March 2009 | The $1 billion Waterfront has been launched this morning and it is one of the largest development projects in Southeast Queensland.
20 February 2009 | Investing in local projects is a great way to generate construction activity and provide much-needed infrastructure to local communities.
3 February 2009 | Total additional spending to shore-up economic growth in 20 major economies set to exceed $3 trillion, of which $1,251 billion has been ear-marked for construction.
20 November 2008 | Advanced minerals and energy projects to the value of $67.3 billion indicate a positive outlook for the mining industry.