Astron Environmental Services has merged with its smaller, associated business, Astron Soil and Water, as the Perth group adapts to a tougher market and tighter margins.
Privately owned construction, engineering and property development company Georgiou achieved a bumper result last year, lifting revenue by 54 per cent and budgeting for continued strong growth.
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Developers are still rolling out significant new apartment projects across the metropolitan area, despite statistics showing multi-unit dwelling sales decreasing steadily as more supply comes to market.
After a record-breaking 2012, the past 12 months have been pretty quiet for new office construction in Perth, with little significant space to be added until 2015.
The ink is finally dry on GHD's contract for at least 6,500sqm in QUBE Property Group's office project at 999 Hay Street on the western fringe of the CBD.
The industry alliance that managed the upgrade of the Great Eastern Highway has been recognised for excellence in construction and environmental management at this year's Earth Awards for civil inf
The $1 billion Gateway WA roads project is set to proceed to major delivery, with finalisation of the project price, scope of works and construction methodology.
Forge Group has bucked the trend of mining services providers downgrading expectations, forecasting a profit improvement in FY2013 of between 28 and 43 per cent.
Main Roads WA has reappointed GHD as its engineering and technical services partner until 2015.The contract win marks the third consecutive occasion GHD has won the ETS from Main Roads.
The Barnett government is living up to its promise to deliver more community infrastructure via public private partnerships, naming three short-listed consortiums to bid for a 350-bed prison develo
Four major projects due to be completed over the next five years will pave the way for the much heralded City Link development between the CBD and Northbridge to proceed.
THE trend for the private sector to deliver traditional government infrastructure in Western Australia has continued, with a private consortium selected to fund, build and operate a new $300 million water treatment plant at Mundaring.
Seven Group Holdings will seek a development partner next year to create a mixed-use commercial, residential and office precinct on inner city land made vacant by the demolition of the Perth Entertainment Centre.
A Brookfield Multiplex and Laing O'Rourke joint venture and a joint venture between John Holland and GHD have been short-listed as the final proponents for the $600 million rail component of the Perth City Link Project.
The state's major engineering outfits have experienced significant staff changes in the last 12 months as the sector stepped out from the gloom of the global financial crisis.
ENVIRONMENTAL consulting firm RPS Group has boosted its position in the Perth market with the recent acquisition of water resource and environmental consultancy Aquaterra Consulting.
WESTERN Australia's town planners have shifted their focus from metropolitan residential planning to infrastructure and regional projects as a result of lingering effects of the financial crisis.
THE major engineering companies in Western Australia cut employment by 15 per cent during the past 12 months, defining the impact of the global financial crisis on the sector.
PROFESSIONAL services company GHD has won an award for its involvement in the prestigious Palm Islands project in the Middle East, as well as a somewhat lower-profile wastewater project, in this year'
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ENGINEERING and consulting company GHD has achieved remarkable growth over the past 25 years but no period was more significant than when John Phillips took the reins.
AN innovative solution to the passenger and freight requirements on the Cocos Islands will lead to the creation of a new island 2,700 kilometres north-west of Perth.
ENGINEERING firm Gutteridge Haskins & Davey has strengthened its presence in Bunbury and WA's south-west by moving to larger premises and appointing a new manager.
