Cutting Australia's Housing Shortage
Official recognition that Australia has a chronic housing shortage is belated but welcome according to HIA’s Managing Director, Shane Goodwin.
Lending Surge before Deadline on Home Grant
A last minute rush ahead of a cut to the First Home Owners’ Boost, saw home lending commitments surge in September according to the Housing Industry Association, Australia’s largest building industry organisation.
HIA Welcomes Stay On 6-Star
Australia’s largest building group, the HIA has welcomed a decision of the Building Ministers’ Forum to defer consideration of new energy efficiency regulation of new dwellings.
HARMONISED OHS LAWS MUST NOT BLUR SAFETY AND INDUSTRIAL MATTERS
Master Builders Australia, the peak body for the building and construction industry, today called on the Government to use the opportunity for the proposed model Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act to introduce better, rather than more, OHS regulation that is nationally consistent across Australia.
Residential Builders Encouraged as Pick Up in Loans for Construction Continues
Finance for construction moved higher again in September and loans for investment housing consolidated after recent gains, according to peak building and construction organisation Master Builders Australia.
$16.4 million for 37 grants to cut office emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions will be cut by around 38,000 tonnes a year through 37 green building projects announced today by Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
A common carbon language for all
Today the world's leading green building organisations have reached a ground-breaking agreement to adopt a common global language for the measurement of the carbon footprint of buildings.
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