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Maddington-based civil contractor All Earth Group, which held contracts on two state government projects, has gone into voluntary administration.

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.

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.

Perth-based contractor Clough has been chosen in collaboration with Italian business Salini Impregilo as preferred tenderer for civil works at the Snowy Hydro 2.0 pump storage project.

A joint venture between Perth-based Clough and Italy's Salini Impregilo has been awarded a $5.1 billion engineering, procurement and construction contract for the federal government’s Snowy 2.0 project.

The main contractor for the state government’s $1.86 billion Forrestfield Airport Link project has been fined after an incident left one of its workers with permanent electrical burns.

Worksafe has launched legal action against construction contractor Salini Australia after an explosion at the Forrestfield Airport Link site left an employee with a traumatic brain injury.

The head contractors for the state government’s troubled $1.86 billion Forrestfield Airport Link are suing engineering consultancy GHD, claiming it failed to prepare an adequate design concept.

The last piece of more than 16 kilometres of track for the $1.86 billion Forrestfield-Airport Link has been laid, another step toward completion of the Metronet project.

Salini Australia has been hit with a $200,000 fine after an explosion at the Forrestfield Airport Link project in 2018 left an employee with a traumatic brain injury and facial fractures.

Multiplex heir Andrew Roberts’ construction company Roberts Co is set to expand its operations after offering to take over most of the Victorian-based assets of its embattled rival Probuild.

Murray & Roberts has fuelled speculation it is looking to sell Perth-based Clough by disclosing it is likely to suffer a loss this year and is reviewing “strategic options”.

Italian contractor Webuild has struck a deal to buy engineering company Clough with a cash payment of just $500,000 and cancellation of a big inter-company loan.

Italy's Webuild has backed out of a conditional deal to buy struggling engineer Clough, plunging the 102-year old Perth-based company into administration.

UPDATE: Administrators for Clough have found a new buyer in Webuild, the company that pulled out of a lifeline deal to save the Perth engineer just over a week ago.

Administrators have granted Clough’s proposed new owner Webuild an extension to pin down a final agreement for the sale, allowing more time to negotiate and potentially take on more projects.

Head contractors for the state government’s $1.86 billion Forrestfield Airport Link have claimed project costs escalated by more than $17 million in their lawsuit with engineering firm GHD.

Matt Mckenzie with today's top headlines including Sun Cable, the Forrestfield-Airport Rail Link and data on inflation and job vacancies.

Spanish construction giant ACCIONA has taken over a major road project in Perth after Main Roads WA excluded Perth-based contractor Clough.

Italy’s Webuild has completed negotiations to acquire a number of additional Clough projects but has declined to specify which projects will be covered.

Clough’s administrators have pushed back Webuild’s exclusivity period to buy its major projects despite finalising an agreement last week.

UPDATE: Details of the deal between Italy's Webuild and the collapsed Perth engineer have been released at close of business this afternoon.

Clough’s new owner Webuild is set to take on more of the collapsed Perth engineer’s projects for $35.9 million, including the $750 million Waitsia gas development.

Costs to develop Beach Energy and Mitsui & Co's Waitsia gas project could climb to $850 million, as Webuild prepares to take over the old Clough contract.

Clough chief executive and managing director Peter Bennett has been appointed to lead the board of Type 1 Diabetes Family Centre as chair.

A surprise ASX announcement from a national fertiliser company has revealed that private Perth company Perdaman has secured funding for its giant $6.4 billion urea project in the Pilbara.

Perth company Perdaman has started work on one of WA's largest projects after gaining backing from Global Infrastructure Partners, the same group that backed Woodside’s Pluto gas project.

Cost pressures have led Beach Energy and Mitsui & Co to withdraw schedule and capital estimates for the stage two development of the Waitsia gas project.

Clough has been contracted by the Northern Territory Government to deliver engineering, procurement and construction services to develop a new ship lift facility in Darwin.

Work has commenced on Water Corporation’s $238.5 million upgrade of its wastewater treatment plant servicing Perth’s southern suburbs.

Clough’s Italian owner Webuild has exceeded 2023 financial guidance across its global portfolio, in its first year as the owner of the Perth-founded business.

Clough chief executive Peter Bennett flagged plans to move into new sectors, including healthcare, at a Business News event this morning.

The state government has awarded a $283 million contract to Clough to build a new wharf at Dampier Port.

Roberts Co and Webuild have been named as the preferred contractors for the $1.8 billion Women’s and Babies’ Hospital.

Beach Energy chair Ryan Stokes has called out “ideological rhetoric” against oil and gas proponents, as the company inches toward production at the troubled Waitsia plant.

The state government moved to lock in contractors for the $1.8 billion Women and Babies’ Hospital in December, as it pushes to begin the project before the March election.

The Victorian arm of national tier one firm Roberts Co, which has a sister company in a joint venture to build Perth's Women and Babies Hospital, is reportedly on the verge of administration.

Perth consulting firm Ralph Beattie Bosworth has been awarded a contract to provide cost planning services for the proposed Women and Babies Hospital at Murdoch.

The Italian-headquartered construction giant is preparing to build the Women’s and Babies Hospital on its own following Roberts Co's financial distress.