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Construcciones Yamaro: Bluebeam expands its Academic Program

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Bluebeam Max integrates AI and automation tools to streamline AEC workflows. (Image: Bluebeam) Bluebeam has expanded its Academic Program to give eligible students and educators worldwide free access to Bluebeam Max, its highest subscription tier. Bluebeam’s Academic Program already provides universities, colleges, technical schools, training institutions and registered apprenticeship programs with access to its software. The expansion adds Bluebeam Max, bringing the company’s most advanced AI and automation tools – used by architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professionals across the globe – into academic coursework. Bluebeam Max includes Revu capabilities that are designed to automate repetitive tasks, identify design changes, support collaboration and draw insights from project documents. Features include AI-assisted review, automated markup generation, intelligent document comparison and advanced document workflows, supported by tools such as Smart Review, Smart Over...
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Construcciones Yamaro: BlueDeck cuts slab cycle times on large-span builds

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Metal decking helps create efficient, open warehouse floor plates. (Images: FTI Group) BlueDeck is helping developers and head contractors achieve one of their top priorities on warehouse and distribution centre builds: staying on program. By Harvey Arkcoll, national sales manager at FTI Group. Warehouses and distribution centres are projects where the business case is built on speed to operation: every week shaved off construction is a week of earlier revenue, and every week added by slow slab work is a week of cost bleeding into the budget. With e-commerce and logistics demand continuing to drive warehouse and distribution centre construction across Australia, that pressure isn’t easing up anytime soon. That’s exactly the pressure point FTI Group’s BlueDeck system is designed to relieve. Before getting into what BlueDeck does differently, it’s worth understanding why long-span slab construction has historically been slow. Warehouses and distribution centres are defined by their...
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Construcciones Yamaro: Contractors look to hybrid excavators as costs rise

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With recent ABS data showing 85 per cent of Australian construction businesses impacted by fuel prices or availability, hybrid excavators can help contractors reduce fuel use and operating costs. (Image: Komatsu) Rising fuel costs are putting pressure on Australia’s construction industry, making the fuel efficiency of heavy equipment an important consideration for contractors. Recent ABS data from the June 2026 Business Conditions and Sentiments survey shows 85 per cent of construction businesses were negatively impacted by fuel prices or availability, while 87 per cent of construction businesses reporting increased operating expenses cited fuel prices as a contributing factor. Komatsu Australia national business manager for construction Mark Boyes says the current environment is putting a renewed focus on hybrid excavators – a technology the company has been developing for almost two decades. Komatsu introduced the world’s first commercially available hybrid hydraulic excavator i...
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Construcciones Yamaro: Fairfield Hospital redevelopment enters next stage

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Artist’s impression: The redevelopment will expand clinical services. (Images: NSW Government) Planning documents for the new Clinical Services Building at Fairfield Hospital are now on public exhibition, marking the next stage of the $630 million redevelopment. The NSW Government has committed $550 million to the project, with a further $80 million from the Commonwealth Government to expand the hospital’s Emergency Department. The five-storey Clinical Services Building will connect with the existing hospital through a new main entry and drop-off area. Subject to planning approval, it will include a new and expanded Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, medical imaging, operating theatres and inpatient wards. A refined artist’s impression of the building shows a nature-inspired façade designed to complement the existing hospital and surrounding bushland. NSW Minister for Health Ryan Park said the redevelopment had reached an important stage, bringing the project closer to del...
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Construcciones Yamaro: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Construction Summit

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The renewable energy boom will require the construction industry to make better use of its resources. (Image: 安琦 王/stock.adobe.com) At the Renewable Energy Construction Summit, one opportunity stood out: using greater repeatability to do more with less. By Ian Moss , marketing leader for Australia and New Zealand at Payapps – an Autodesk company. At the recent Renewable Energy Construction Summit in Sydney, I had the opportunity to hear from industry experts about the challenges of delivering Australia’s renewable energy transition. One message in particular stayed with me. In a keynote on delivering renewable energy projects at scale, DT Infrastructure general manager of strategy Tom Perkin highlighted the need for the construction industry to find ways to do more with less. Ian Moss, marketing leader for Australia and New Zealand at Payapps – an Autodesk company. (Image: Payapps) We were told at the event that about $163 billion of energy infrastructure is expected to be delive...
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Construcciones Yamaro: Inland Rail delivers major Albury to Illabo works during possession

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The girders for the new Kemp Street bridge each weighed between 44 and 48 tonnes. (Images: Inland Rail) Inland Rail has completed a 96-hour rail possession between Cootamundra and Albury, delivering a package of works across the Albury to Illabo section in southern New South Wales. The possession allowed crews to carry out construction activities at multiple locations across the Albury, Greater Hume, Lockhart, Wagga Wagga and Junee local government areas between 11 and 15 September. In Junee, crews lifted 16 bridge girders into place for the new Kemp Street bridge. Using a 650-tonne crane, crews installed the girders, each weighing between 44 and 48 tonnes, marking a step forward in the delivery of the new road-over-rail bridge. Inland Rail chief executive officer Sean Sweeney said the extended track closure gave teams the access needed to safely complete the works. Related stories: Inland Rail completes Hume Freeway works at Seymour First solar-powered level crossings delivere...
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Construcciones Yamaro: Multiplex completes Melbourne PBSA project

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The 40-level tower provides 1,010 student beds in Melbourne’s CBD. (Images: Multiplex) Multiplex has delivered Journal Student Living’s Market Way purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) project at 100 Franklin Street, Melbourne, ahead of schedule. Designed by COX Architects, Market Way is located in the Queen Victoria Market precinct of Melbourne’s CBD, close to the city’s universities. The 40-level tower comprises 715 rooms providing 1,010 student beds across shared and individual configurations. It also features more than 3,000sqm of communal space – with resident amenities including a library, study rooms, gym, music and gaming rooms, cinema and rooftop terrace – more than 350sqm of retail space, a basement loading bay and 172 bicycle spaces instead of on-site car parking, reflecting students’ preferred mode of transport. Related stories: SP Setia and Multiplex break ground on Atlas Melbourne Freecity advances Macquarie Park tower using VMC Kapitol and ICD Property back ...
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