HOME ABOUT US ADVERTISE SUBSCRIBE SITE MAP HELP CONTACT WORK FOR US   Monday 6 September 2010 Make CIN my HomePage    TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE STORIES [ 262 Results - Showing Results 1 to 30 ] A question of circumstances (Wednesday, 16 June 2010) BRISBANE residents living close to the Airport Link project have stepped up their campaign to stop contractor Thiess John Holland from undertaking “unlawful” 24-hour above-ground works. Full Story... NSW back in black (Wednesday, 9 June 2010) INFRASTRUCTURE spending in New South Wales will remain steady next financial year before falling about 5% in each of the following two years, with the government focused on returning its budget to a surplus rather than funding new major projects. Full Story... Transport a winner in Qld budget (Wednesday, 9 June 2010) THE Queensland government’s $17.1 billion infrastructure spend in 2010-11 will include an outlay of $6.85 billion for road and rail projects. Full Story... Planning shake-up for Qld (Wednesday, 26 May 2010) INFRASTRUCTURE planning in Queensland is undergoing a major overhaul as the state government attempts to anticipate and manage population growth. Full Story... IFS takes bridge expertise global (Friday, 21 May 2010) FORMWORK and scaffolding specialist IFS Construction Services has secured supply contracts valued at around $3 million on eight separate bridge construction projects in Australia and as far reaching as Qatar and Singapore over the last few months, with work continuing to roll in. Full Story... More Gateway works for LAJV (Wednesday, 14 April 2010) GATEWAY upgrade project contractor the Leighton Abigroup Joint Venture has won a $240 million contract to deliver additional upgrade works on the Gateway Motorway. Full Story... Macmahon confirms $90M contract win (Wednesday, 14 April 2010) AFTER days of media speculation, two price queries from the Australian Securities Exchange and a trading halt, Macmahon Holdings has announced that as part of the Coal Stream Alliance, it has been awarded a $90 million contract by Queensland government rail agency QR for civil works on the Goonyella to Abbot Point expansion project. Full Story... Steadier state (Thursday, 1 April 2010) BRISBANE'S unprecedented surge of major transport projects is now starting to recede. By Greg Keane. Full Story... Oakajee to cost $4.4B (Wednesday, 31 March 2010) THE Oakajee port and rail project will cost at least $4.4 billion to construct, with the joint venture partners declaring this week they have demonstrated the “operational and technical feasibility” of the project. Full Story... Oakajee Port capacity to increase (Friday, 19 March 2010) OAKAJEE Port & Rail is planning to expand the initial capacity of the planned Oakajee Port in Western Australia to 45 million tonnes per annum due to high demand from miners. Full Story... FNQ road project set to begin (Wednesday, 10 March 2010) THE Abigroup Seymour Whyte Joint Venture has been named to design and construct Townsville’s $110 million Douglas Arterial duplication project, with major works due to start next month. Full Story... Economy tests the ground: Part 2 (Friday, 8 January 2010) ALTHOUGH vacuum consolidation is relatively new in Australia as an alternative to traditional wick drains and surcharging when building in very soft and soft, saturated soils with low permeability, the leading proponent in Australia, Austress-Menard, has over 20 years of experience in Europe. The method is well established there and has been used in demanding applications such as embankments for concrete highways and high-speed rail lines, where settlement must be strictly controlled. Full Story... Giant TBM lands in Brisbane (Friday, 11 December 2009) THE first of two 3600-tonne tunnel boring machines, the largest ever to operate in Australia, has arrived in Brisbane for use on Thiess John Holland’s Airport Link project. Full Story... Sydney Metro designs online (Wednesday, 18 November 2009) SAMPLE designs for the Sydney Metro stations at Pyrmont and Rozelle are now online following a second successful design principles workshop. Full Story... Leighton alliance chosen for Kempsey (Wednesday, 18 November 2009) AN alliance comprising Leighton Contractors, AECOM and Coffey Geotechnics has been chosen as the preferred proponent to deliver the first of two major works packages on the Kempsey Bypass in New South Wales. Full Story... Xstrata to build new Queensland port (Wednesday, 28 October 2009) XSTRATA plans to build a new $A1 billion coal export terminal with capacity of 35 million tonnes per annum on Queensland’s Balaclava Island, 40km north of Gladstone. Full Story... M4 toll removal a bad move: IPA (Wednesday, 28 October 2009) THE removal of the toll from Sydney’s M4 Motorway will turn the critical east-west corridor into a “parking lot” during peak periods, according to Infrastructure Partnerships Australia. Full Story... Thiess, PB, Hyder partner again (Friday, 21 August 2009) THIESS, Parsons Brinckerhoff and Hyder are again working together to deliver another major Victorian roads project – the $2.25 billon M80 Ring Road Upgrade. Full Story... Plans to revive old rail link project (Friday, 10 July 2009) FEDERAL Treasurer Wayne Swan has announced $A3 million of funding for a final feasibility study of the $550 million Maldon-Dombarton Rail Line project, with the new link to Port Kembla offering benefits to coal exporters. Full Story... Asciano unveils $2B capital raising (Monday, 15 June 2009) PORT and rail operator Asciano has gone into a trading halt and announced an ambitious capital raising program to bring in minimum gross proceeds of $A2 billion. Full Story... Juniors call for rail action after Rio-BHP marriage (Monday, 8 June 2009) THE proposed BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto Pilbara tie-up will make third-party rail access for iron ore juniors even more important, according to the North West Iron Ore Alliance. Full Story... John Holland consortium clinches $250M rail project (Wednesday, 20 May 2009) A JOHN Holland consortium has secured a $250 million contract to construct a 43km third track from Maitland to Whittingham in New South Wales. Full Story... NSW happy to go solo on CBD Metro (Monday, 18 May 2009) THE New South Wales government is pushing ahead with the Sydney CBD Metro underground rail line despite the project missing out on federal funding in last week’s budget. Full Story... New bridge boosts North Qld (Tuesday, 14 April 2009) THE construction of a $48 million bridge over the Mulgrave River in North Queensland has been completed eight months ahead of schedule, despite losing 27 working days to wet weather. Full Story... Constructors, property body back call for PPP support (Tuesday, 24 March 2009) THE Australian Constructors Association and the Property Council of Australia have backed calls for the federal government to take steps to ensure the delivery of key infrastructure projects involving Public Private Partnerships. Full Story... Airport link enters Leighton books (Thursday, 31 July 2008) LEIGHTON subsidiaries Thiess and John Holland have been contracted for the design and construction of Australia’s largest toll road project, Brisbane’s $3.4 billion Airport Link. Full Story... Cardno finishes one of Australia’s biggest DRIVE projects (Friday, 13 June 2008) QUEENSLAND-based Cardno has finished a survey in New South Wales of the Clarence Valley Council’s road network in one of Australia’s largest ever Digital Road Inventory Video Environment (DRIVE) projects. Full Story... Bluetooth the key to managing congestion (Friday, 30 May 2008) MANAGING road construction worksites could become a whole lot easier with a new system being designed by engineers in the United States using Bluetooth signals from mobile phones and other wireless devices to continuously update how long it takes vehicles to travel from one point to another. Full Story... Rain causes delays to coal terminal upgrade (Wednesday, 28 May 2008) THE Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal upgrade will take longer than previously expected, Babcock & Brown Infrastructure announced today, with the ramp-up to 85 million tonnes per annum capacity now expected by the end of the first quarter of 2009. Full Story... Underground – the last resort of poor planners? (Wednesday, 28 May 2008) IF YOU bury your head in the sand for long enough, do you get tunnel vision? If you look at visions for Sydney and Brisbane that have been unveiled recently, to the roll of drums, a swirling mist from fog machines and a staccato burst of coloured lights, then tunnels have become the planning equivalent of a television evangelist’s miracle. Full Story... 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