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Construction Is Becoming a Data Business. Most Builders Already Own the Asset.
Every estimate, variation, delay and defect a building business records says something about how it actually performs. The widening gap is between the builders who read that record and the builders who file it. A building business generates information constantly....
The Soil Test Is a Legal Duty Before You Sign in Victoria and Queensland. New Research Shows What It Is Worth.
Miss the foundations data and both states block you from recovering what it would have found. New modelling from Adelaide University puts a number on how large that gap can get. The soil report is close to the cheapest document on a residential job and it decides more...
She Built a Career in Colombia. Now She Is Helping Build Sydney’s Hospitals.
Andrea Ramirez Pertuz arrived in Australia with a civil engineering degree and a plan. Her path to working on some of Sydney's biggest hospital redevelopments offers a practical lesson in how the industry absorbs skilled migrants when the system works properly. Andrea...
Australia’s Unfair Trading Act Starts 1 July 2027. The Section That Reaches Builders Is Not the One About Pricing.
The drip pricing measure being flagged to builders does not capture site cost allowances or provisional sums. A different section captures how a build is sold. Australia has a new unfair trading law. The Competition and Consumer Amendment (Unfair Trading Practices)...
The Scope of Works Is the Document Your Statutory Warranty Attaches To. Most Builders Treat It as Paperwork.
In New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland the statutory warranty is not simply that the work will be good. It is that the work will match what the contract described. Most residential builders think of the scope of works as an administrative document. Something the...
Victoria’s Top Apprentice Started With a Job Ad for Antarctica
Hannah Dillimore didn't take the conventional path into the trades. She saw an ad for welders in Antarctica and thought, that's interesting. She wasn't ready for the South Pole, but the spark was lit. The 27-year-old from Melbourne's South East is now Victoria's 2026...
Western Australia Is the Only State That Caps Which Home Building Contracts Its Laws Cover. Nearly One in Five Now Falls Outside.
The ceiling has not moved since 2007. Building costs have. A government discussion paper now proposes lifting it to $800,000, with the recommendations report due next month. Western Australia's Home Building Contracts Act 1991 does not apply to every home building...
Site Pressure Is a Named Safety Hazard Under the Law, and the Free Tool Builders Used To Measure It Closes 2 October
Job demands, poor support, isolated work and conflict on site are not soft issues in the regulations. They are named hazards a business has a legal duty to manage, and that duty does not scale with headcount. Most builders think of work health and safety as falls,...