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A consortium led by Leighton Contractors and Georgiou Group has been chosen by the state government to deliver its $1 billion-plus Gateway WA project.

LEIGHTON Properties has stolen a march on rival developers, including Brookfield Properties, aiming to start work on Perth’s next large office buildings.

Perth’s commercial property leasing market has recorded a solid start to 2013, with more than 21,000 square metres of office space already committed and around 12,000sqm of pre-commitments in the works.

The lure of strong rental returns and WA’s busy resources sector has triggered a number of new boutique office projects at the outer edge of the CBD.

The state government has shortlisted two consortia to move the Wellington Street Bus Station underground.Transport Minister Troy Buswell announced today the work would be undertaken through an alliance contract with the Public Transport Authority.

Parsons Brinckerhoff has appointed Peter Kartsidimas as the new team manager for its integrated transport planning capability in WA.

Brookfield Place was named the overall winner at the WA Engineering Excellence Awards over the weekend.The award judges said the building set new standards for engineering excellence in Australia, with the slender skyscraper presenting unique challenges.

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.

St Andrew’s Church on St Georges Terrace will remain closed for the foreseeable future due to structural issues, unless the Uniting Church can secure an anchor tenant for a planned 22-storey office tower.

Colby Hauser has joined Aurecon as client relationship executive, oil and gas.His new roles will focus on Aurecon’s oil and gas business in WA, the Northern Territory and Papua New Guinea.

The Anglican Church’s move to distance itself from fossil fuel-related industries could have implications for its CBD property portfolio, with up to nine resources sector companies that lease office space across the church’s commercial buildings.

Roberts Day senior designer Peter Ciemitis and architecture and planning group HASSELL have been lauded for their contributions to the sector by the industry’s peak representative body, the Planning Institute of Australia.

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Yan Lui has resigned from his positions of chief executive officer and Trinidad general manager at Range Resources. Mr Liu will remain on the board of director as a non-executive director. Joshua Wellisch has resigned as a non-executive director of Dakota Minerals.

As a child, Cockram Construction project manager Crystal Jordan wanted to be a firefighter like her father. Instead, as she grew up, she gravitated towards the construction sector – and it’s a decision she has never regretted.

There’s been a big rise in the exercise of contract termination for convenience clauses in the past four years, according to Jackson McDonald lead partner of projects, infrastructure and construction Basil Georgiou.