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McConnell Dowell Group’s construction arm Built Environs has won the main construction contract for a $330 million expansion project at Perth Airport.

The construction sector is meant to be in a protracted slump, but that’s not the message coming from contractors in WA.

The purchase by Dexus of the first three towers in the Kings Square precinct caps a stellar month for city office sales as the major property groups home in on the new opportunities in Perth’s expanding

Dean Goodliffe has been appointed as managing director of construction company Broad Group Holdings.Mr Goodliffe has been working as a project director within Broad and Leighton Contractors for over two years, and prior to that was divisional director at ISG in the UK.

Construction of health insurance provider HBF’s new home has begun, with Planning Minister John Day on hand to launch the fourth office tower at the Kings Square precinct.

The Barnett government is understood to have picked a winner for the first two lots at Elizabeth Quay, pushing the button for the second land sale at the 10-hectare riverside precinct.

The state government has endorsed designs by developers Leighton Properties and Mirvac Group for the final piece of land at the Perth City Link.

SPECIAL REPORT: The state’s major builders appear unfazed to be operating in what’s considered among Western Australia’s most competitive and closely monitored business sectors.

SPECIAL REPORT: Perth Airport is upgrading its facilities to give passengers an enhanced travelling experience.

Global energy giant Shell has expanded its footprint at Leighton Properties and DEXUS Property Group’s Kings Square, signing up to take up a further 5,847 square metres of office space in the development’s second tower.

The state government has announced plans for the private sector to design, build, finance and maintain eight new public schools, using a contracting model that has previously been employed in four other states.

Perth franchise group Quick Colour Print has gone into liquidation, adding to a string of Western Australian business collapses this month, including two substantial construction contractors and a mining contractor.

The state government has awarded contracts worth a combined $104.6 million to local builders Broad Construction Services, Pindan and Emco Building.

Local contractors PS Structures, Cockram Construction and Broad have secured a combined $39.3 million worth of work for the state government.

Downer has terminated its contract with Spanish construction company Tecnicas Reunidas on the Burrup ammonium nitrate project, joining a string of contractors to be hit by contractual disputes on big projects over the past year.

Major progress is being made at one of the flagship sites at Elizabeth Quay.

Six construction companies including EMCO Building, Badge Construction and Pindan have secured a combined $102 million worth of work from the state government.

Quality Builders has won the $4.7 million contract to upgrade the Karratha and Broome regional courthouses. The work includes the relocation of the Kununurra temporary courthouse complex.

Cockram Construction has won a $20.4 million contract for redevelopment of the Katanning Health Service. See more at Cockram to build Katanning Health Service.

Perth-based Broad Construction Services has shared in $10.5 million worth of contracts awarded by the state government.

TRG Properties will develop 170 apartments at Claremont Oval, after becoming LandCorp’s fourth private sector partner at its Claremont on the Park renewal project.

SPECIAL REPORT: A new wave of property developments is taking shape across Perth’s CBD, with more than $200 million worth of student accommodation projects in the pipeline.