Dan Wilkie

Engineering and construction group Ausenco has forecast further growth in 2013 after reporting a full year net profit of $41.4 million, a 57 per cent jump on the previous year.

THE City of Fremantle will hold an international design competition to appease the concerns of local residents over the architectural style of the planned $220 million redevelopment of Kings Square

Civil and mining contracting firm Brierty has reported a significant lift in net profit to lodge a third consecutive record half-year result.

Engineering and construction firm Decmil Group has lodged a net profit increase of 79 per cent for the half year ended December 31, shrugging off a slowdown across some of its operations.

Transportable housing manufacturer Fleetwood has confirmed an 81 per cent fall in half year net profit.

Drilling fluids and services firm Imdex has reported a 27 per cent drop in half year net profit, a result it says reflects challenging market conditions in the minerals sector.

Struggling vanadium miner Atlantic has 45 business days to replenish an interest reserve account or reach agreement to reduce its minimum holding, after it breached a covenant on its $US335 million

Mark McGowan has committed to expand Henderson’s Australian Marine Complex into one of the nation’s largest technology parks if Labor is successful in next month’s state election.

Engineering and construction group Clough is tipping a bumper year ahead after announcing a 139 per cent increase in net profit for the half year to December 31.

Engineering, mining services and construction outfit Forge Group has exceeded its own expectations by delivering a 60 per cent increase in half-year net profit.

West Australian Labor has shifted its election campaign focus to the state's urban planning system, promising to ease bottlenecks and advance progress at stalled local developments.

Singapore-listed engineering contractors AusGroup and CivMec have achieved significant increases in half year profit, with both Perth-based companies reporting strong order books and consistent lev

Mining giant Rio Tinto has appointed Andrew Harding to succeed Sam Walsh as its iron ore chief executive.

Uranium miner Paladin Energy has reported a half year net loss of $US193.5 million, with a number of large write-downs and impairments souring a record half year combined production result.

Property developer Mirvac’s former Western Australian chief executive, Evan Campbell, will step down from the company at the end of the month after a consolidation of the group’s operations.

Accounting firm Deloitte Australia has appointed its outgoing Western Australian boss, Keith Jones, as its national chairman.

Laing O’Rourke has announced a major contract win with construction and engineering group Bechtel at Chevron’s Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project.

Power generation group Pacific Energy has announced a record half-year net profit, on the back of a 20 per cent increase in revenue.

Cleveland Mining has secured $7 million in fresh funding to advance exploration and sampling programs at its Premier and Mara Rosa gold projects in central Brazil.

Mineral Resources has booked a 22 per cent drop in half year net profit, on the back of a slump in iron ore prices over the second quarter of financial year 2013.

Labor's $3.4 billion Metronet rail project will be funded by relocating Perth's major stadium to Subiaco and scrapping state government funding earmarked for the mothballed Oakajee port projec

Indian-owned engineering group Sembawang Australia has trumped Leighton Holdings' offer for Macmahon Holdings' construction arm, offering $35 million for the troubled business.

Nickel miner Mincor Resources has shrugged off a first half loss of $2.21 million to declared an interim dividend of 2 cents per share.

Infrastructure services firm Cardno has acquired Bunbury-based Geotech Materials Testing Services in a transaction worth up to $26.7 million.

Northern Star Resources has booked a half year profit increase of 78 per cent, after increasing production capacity at its Paulsens gold mine to more than 100,000 ounces per year.

The mining industry has urged state and federal governments to tread with caution over implementing recommendations from a parliamentary inquiry into fly-in, fly-out work practices, saying some of

Junior miners Gold Road Resources, Rox Resources and Nkwe Platinum are raising a combined total of $14.95 million to accelerate exploration programs at their respective developments.

NRW Holdings subsidiary Action Drill & Blast has won a $140 million contract with Fortescue Metals Group at the Cloudbreak iron ore mine near Newman.

Shares in Apex Minerals jumped on the ASX today after the Perth-based announced an agreement to sell its Youanmi gold mine near Sandstone in the Murchison for $15 million.

Premier Colin Barnett has revived plans for a university in Midland at the historic Railway Workshops if the Liberals win the March 9 state election.

The City of Fremantle moved a step closer to kicking off works on a $220 million revamp of King’s Square, with the council approving a plan put forward by development group Sirona Capital at a spec

Charter Hall Group has acquired the remaining 50 per cent stake it did not already own in grocery wholesaler Metcash's Canning Vale distribution centre for $63.5 million.