Infrastructure

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has reported a net profit after tax of $4.5 million for the first half of the financial year, a rise of 66 per cent from the prior corresponding period.

SRG Global has reported solid half-year results but its shares fell sharply after it lowered its full-year guidance on the back of project delays.

Macmahon has reported a strong half-yearly result, but MACA and GR Engineering have seen their profit plunge compared to the prior corresponding period.

Lendlease is considering offloading its engineering and services unit after the property and infrastructure group's first-half profit crashed 96.3 per cent to $15.7 million.

Business groups have welcomed a bill introduced by the state government today to establish the advisory body Infrastructure WA.

Monadelphous has posted a lower first-half profit but its share price has risen on the back of a positive outlook for the engineering firm.

SPECIAL REPORT: Costs and a local skills shortage are among the challenges facing the state as it seeks to develop a local train car manufacturing sector.

SPECIAL REPORT: Big data has helped the Pilbara Ports Authority to dramatically increase throughput, in contrast to other ports.

SPECIAL REPORT: WA will be waiting until at least 2030 before an outer harbour development is needed, and in the meantime work is being done to evaluate the best ways to extend the life of Fremantle Port.

The sale of RCR Tomlinson’s Western Australian operations is complete, with RCR Resources, RCR Power and RCR Water West sold to AvidSys Group for an undisclosed sum.

Civmec has reported a profit of $1.27 million for the second quarter of the 2019 financial year, while also announcing a new contract at Albemarle Corporation's Kemerton lithium project.

Infrastructure Australia has identified 16 priority projects for Western Australia, highlighting several major differences with the state government’s priorities, including the Morley-Ellenbrook line.

The Western Australian government has reportedly offered contractor John Holland $20 million to settle the long-running dispute over the Perth Children's Hospital.

Pilbara Ports Authority has recorded a slight decrease in throughput for the month of January compared with same month a year prior, despite the Port of Port Hedland achieving a single-tide record tonnage in the month.

Construction company John Holland and two contractors are facing federal work health and safety charges over an incident that injured a worker at Main Roads WA’s $1 billion NorthLink road project.

Osborne Park-based Densford Civil has been awarded a $6.4 million contract for safety improvement works along the South Coast Highway in Albany.

SPECIAL REPORT: Western Australia may not be ready with the workforce and skills needed for the next boom.

Woodside Petroleum’s Browse and Scarborough LNG developments are the biggest of $95 billion of major projects under way or likely in Western Australia, with 96 ongoing and a further 68 probable.

Diversified contractor Lendlease has secured a $53.2 million state government contract to provide maintenance services for the Graham Farmer Freeway tunnel for the next six years.

The state government has announced a delay of up to 12 months at the Forrestfield-Airport Link due to tunneling issues, but says the rail project’s $1.9 billion budget will not be impacted.

Fremantle’s port has room to grow container trade, possibly for three decades, according to a new report by the state government’s Westport taskforce, but freight infrastructure improvements are needed in the short term at Fremantle, Bunbury and Kwinana.

The $6 billion Balla Balla infrastructure project has experienced two setbacks, with the deadline for meeting its obligations under a State Agreement extended by 18 months and recent exploration work failing to live up to promise.

The state government has been forced to allocate an extra $8 million to a dredging program at Broome Port, while an independent report has ruled out the use of a below deck gangway for cruise ships at the port.

Perth-based Keslake Group has won a $6.5 million state government contract to build a 2.8-kilometre bicycle path alongside the Fremantle railway line.

Valmec has secured $25 million worth of construction contracts, including at Mineral Resources’ Wodgina project, while fellow local contractor Weststar Industrial was awarded a $4 million contract at Rio Tinto’s West Angelas mine near Newman.

Adco Constructions has secured a contract to complete expansion works at Bunbury Regional Prison, while EMCO Building will construct a new performing arts centre at Melville Senior High School.

Shares in Global Construction Services have fallen to a one-year low, on the same day the company’s shareholders voted to change its name to that of merger partner SRG Global.

Former ATCO Gas Australia president Pat Donovan has been announced as the new chief executive of the Water Corporation, replacing Sue Murphy after a 10-year tenure.

Osborne Park-based Universal Constructions has secured a $14 million state government contract to build a new primary school in Caversham.

RCR Tomlinson, which grew rapidly to be one of Australia's largest engineering contractors with annual revenue of $2 billion, 3,400 staff and multiple contracts in WA, has been placed into administration after failing to secure new funding.

Perth-based Georgiou Group has won a road construction contract in NSW, with the overall project worth about $140 million.

Engineering consultancy GHD has been awarded a $6.7 million contract to design upgrades to the rail network around Claremont train station as part of the state government’s Metronet project.