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A drone of 2 kg or less can do paid site work without a pilot licence once it's registered and you're accredited. Here's how CASA's rules, including the 30-metre rule, work on site.
By Construction Australia · · 9 min read
Guides · NATIONAL
Under the Building and Construction award, an apprentice can move up a pay stage on reaching 25, 50 or 75 per cent of their competencies, rather than waiting out each 12 months. Here is how it works.
· 9 min read · Construction Australia
Analysis · NATIONAL
Powering Skills Organisation's 2026 update adds data centres and housing to the energy trades requirement, and finds growth runs through about 48,000 electrical contracting businesses.
· 12 min read · Construction Australia
Innovation · NATIONAL
A short drone flight can give an earthworks team measured cut, fill and stockpile volumes. Here is how the workflow runs, what it measures well, and how it supports a progress claim.
· 8 min read · Construction Australia
Analysis · NATIONAL
Gold Coast Stage 3 is open, Canberra and Parramatta are building, and Woden is in approvals. Here is how four light rail extensions are being bought, and who is delivering them.
· 8 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NATIONAL
Before a new railway, power station or airport opens, specialist teams test every system. Here is how testing and commissioning works, and who does the work.
· 11 min read · Construction Australia
Projects · NATIONAL
Transport still takes more than half the pipeline, but energy transmission is the fastest-growing segment — and the work is shifting north.
· 5 min read · Construction Australia
Analysis · NATIONAL
Hunter Transmission drew seven bidders by splitting the work into two packages, and the Bruce Highway program is reaching regional contractors the same way. Package size and structure are levers clients can pull.
· 6 min read · Construction Australia
Analysis · NATIONAL
Business cases allow about 7 per cent between their P50 and P90 estimates, while completed projects average 49 per cent. Most of what gets reported as an overrun is something else entirely.
· 10 min read · Construction Australia
Innovation · NATIONAL
Fitting GNSS to a dozer is straightforward and the vendors handle it. What determines whether it works is the 3D model you load into it — and that is somebody else's job.
· 4 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NATIONAL
Transmission is a regulated asset, so the cost of building one reaches customers through network charges. There is a defined process for that — and a defined point where the regulator says no.
· 5 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NATIONAL
A high risk work licence is issued by a regulator. A verification of competency is issued by your employer. Both get called “tickets” — and treating them as the same is how people do work they are not authorised for.
· 4 min read · Construction Australia
