Mark Kepplinger

Growing demand for quality apartments and resort-style living in Karratha is providing an increasingly lucrative niche for property developers and investors.The new developments contrast with both the large workers’ camps and suburban subdivisions, which dominate the Pilbara town.

Jaxon Construction has won contracts for an apartment project in central Perth and a community centre in Cockburn, taking its new contract wins for the quarter to $78 million.

The Town of Port Hedland has appointed JAXON Construction for the first stage of upgrades at Port Hedland International Airport.

BHP Billiton has signed Perth-based construction group JAXON to build a $51.6 million residential development in South Hedland.The project, known as Quattro, will comprise 75 homes, including 55 townhouses and 20 apartments in a three-level building.

Perth-based building and construction company JAXON has added a pair of affordable housing projects to its portfolio of works, comprising an $18.6 million apartment project for the Department of Housing and a $22 million complex for Foundation Housing.

Construction on Chinese developer JianHe Jian Group’s $100 million residential and commercial project opposite Perth Zoo in South Perth is expected to begin later this month, after local builder JAXON was signed up to carry out the works.

Perth-based builder Jaxon has been contracted to build an $18.5 million apartment project in Midland, the first development by ASX-listed Mustera Property Group.

Aldi’s $450 million expansion into Western Australia is gathering steam, with the German supermarket giant starting the recruitment process for 400 new staff, and construction under way at 11 of its 22 confirmed locations.

Construction has started on the University of Western Australia’s Forrest Hall, a $16 million accommodation facility designed to attract the world’s best researchers to the state.