KBR

New York stock exchange-listed engineering firm KBR has won a major contract at Rio Tinto and Hancock Prospecting's Hope Downs iron ore joint venture.

If you are a ‘glass half-full’ person, the LNG boom has presented great opportunities for local industry, but not everyone is happy.

John Holland has awarded global engineering and construction services firm KBR a design services contract as part of its $120 milion upgrade of road and rail access to the Port of Esperance.

WHEN mining and construction chief executives talk about workplace safety, many people struggle to stifle a yawn. But it is very different on the rare occasion when they hear about a serious accident.

Engineering firms exposed to mining are going through a tough patch but prospects are much better for those like Technip and Clough in the oil & gas sector.

KBR is believed to have committed to office space in the third tower at Leighton Properties’ Kings Square project alongside one of its key clients, Shell.

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.

Major redevelopment projects are transforming Perth’s CBD, but only one precinct seems to be attracting anchor tenants.

GDF Suez and Santos have moved away from developing their Bonaparte joint venture project as a floating liquefied natural gas project, saying they will now consider other options, including helping expand Inpex’s Icthys LNG project.

Woodside, WorleyParsons and KBR were awarded the overall prize at the 2014 WA Engineering Excellence awards last night for their project entry, the $5 billion North Rankin Redevelopment project, which exports gas to the Karratha gas plant.

A fresh food market, an amphitheatre and a playground set among native gardens are among the amenities the state government revealed today for Perth’s newest public plaza, Yagan Square.

The residential component of the Kings Square precinct is to take shape in coming months, with Seven Group Holdings appointing architecture firm Woods Bagot to design two 50-storey apartment towers for the high-profile redevelopment project.

Perth company Liquefied Natural Gas has finalised an engineering contract for an LNG plant in the United States that will cost about half as much, per tonne of production, as most of the LNG plants under construction in Australia.

Mike Rathbone has been appointed as the project director Pritchard Francis’ transport team. Mr Rathbone was most recently section manager, transport for Jacobs Engineering.

Brian J Rear has resigned as a director of Horseshoe Metals. 

SPECIAL REPORT: Western Australia’s next major greenfields liquefied natural gas project could be a decade away after Woodside last month decided against further progressing its Browse floating LNG facility.

Department of Transport director-general Reece Waldock is set to retire in July.Mr Waldock was appointed the inaugural chief executive of the Public Transport Authority of WA in 2003.

CIMIC Group has launched legal action in the United States against Chevron over cost blowouts on jetty and marine structures it built at the Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island.