Women & Leadership Australia have issued the last and final call for all women currently working in the construction sector to express interest in a limited pool of scholarship funding that has to be allocated by the end of 2019. The fee support opportunity provides women with funding of between $2,000 and $7,000 (per applicant, […]
The nation’s capital played host to the Australian Shop & Office Fitting Industry’s major awards programs this weekend, and fittingly featured winners from all over Australia. The ASOFIA 2018-2019 Interior Fitout Awards, are the highest honours of shopfitting and celebrate the wealth of talent within the industry that delivers innovation and creativity to retail, […]
On August 20, 2019, a ban on the uncontrolled dry cutting of engineered stone came into effect across Victoria to help protect workers from exposure to deadly silica dust. Workplace health and safety regulations now prohibit the cutting, grinding and abrasive polishing of engineered stone with power tools, unless on-tool water suppression or dust extraction […]
The construction industry, including shopfitting, employs more than 625,000 people across Australia, making it one of the biggest employers in the country – and the statistics surrounding the mental health of construction workers are staggering. According to recent reports from MATES in Construction and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC): construction workers are more than twice as likely to […]
With its live entertainment, a waterplay area, fresh food market, buzzing Eat Street and Event Cinemas, Ed.Square Town Centre will be a fun place to be. Frasers Property Australia has now announced new tenants for the community’s health, medical and wellbeing offer, ensuring it will also be a healthy place to visit. Chemistworks, Myhealth Medical Centre […]
All PCBUs, in all states and territories, are required to notify their work health and safety regulator of certain ‘notifiable incidents’ when they occur at work, under work health and safety (WHS) legislation. Work health and safety regulators are committed to preventing work-related deaths and injuries. Notifying the regulator of ‘notifiable incidents’ can help identify […]
Scentre Group, along with joint venture partners ISPT and M&G Real Estate Asia Property Fund, recently announced its $30 million redevelopment of Westfield Doncaster’s level two dining and entertainment precinct is now underway. Currently home to six restaurants, the space will transform into a ‘modern-village’ style rooftop dining and entertainment precinct complete with up to […]
A recent study1 involving more than 8,800 employees shows that 39 per cent of us are sleeping six hours or less a night and are more stressed, have less energy and are working longer hours than those employees who get the recommended 7 – 9 hours a night. The concept that workloads and work-related stress […]
GPT’s Melbourne Central is set to undergo its biggest transformation in almost 20 years as part of a quest to become a ‘temple of meaning’ for Melburnians and evolve into a globally-recognised place of cultural and social exchange that nurtures and inspires its users. As of 2021, the centre will reinvent itself with the addition […]