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Construction for the Queensland Regional Aeromedical Base development at Brisbane Airport has been given the green light. Federal Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Minister Catherine King made the approval announcement, with the $72 million hub set to connect Queenslanders to major hospitals and life-saving medical treatment. Once complete, the Aeromedical Base will feature …

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Canberra school children have named the two tower cranes which will rise over the Australian War Memorial Development Project for the next two years, “Duffy” and “Teddy”. Duffy is named after Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick’s donkey that he used to transport injured men in Gallipoli during the First World War – because “Duffy is used to …

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Paving the way for improved mental health and wellbeing in the construction industry, McConnell Dowell has recently adopted The Integrated Approach to Wellness across its operations. Construction is a core industry of the Australian economy and supporting the mental wellbeing of our construction workforce is vital to the sectors continued success. One construction company determined …

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At just 21 years of age, budding Cadet Civil Engineer and student Miranda Swift is already inspiring the next generation of aspiring women engineers. Growing up regionally in Lithgow, a small town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Miranda Swift was given a taste of the construction industry at the age of …

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Through “connected construction”, software solutions company Trimble Viewpoint is enabling real-time decision-making, increasing productivity and boosting profit margins in the Australian construction industry. Despite a host of obstacles, from the pandemic to floods and nearly everything in between, the Australian construction industry has made impressive strides towards digitisation. Many contractors have traded manual information gathering …

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