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Construcciones Yamaro: IFM Investors advances Dandenong South industrial development

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Artist’s impression: The 62.3-hectare site is located in Melbourne’s Dandenong South industrial precinct. (Images: IFM Investors) Construction has commenced at Daybreak Dandenong South, an industrial and logistics development in Melbourne’s south east with an estimated end value of $1.1 billion. Developed by industry superannuation and pension fund-owned IFM Investors, the 62.3-hectare site occupies one of the last remaining greenfield development opportunities in the Dandenong South industrial precinct. Once completed, Daybreak Dandenong South will provide more than 283,000sqm of industrial and logistics space across multiple stages. The first stage will comprise about 83,700sqm of industrial accommodation across up to eight tenancies, with completion expected in February 2028. IFM Investors head of real estate Scott Mosely said the start of construction followed years of planning and development work. “Opportunities to deliver industrial real estate development at scale in Dande...

Construcciones Yamaro: CPB Contractors backs A2B Personnel

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CPB Contractors and A2B Personnel are building a lasting partnership. (Images: CPB Contractors) CIMIC Group’s CPB Contractors is delivering on its Indigenous procurement commitments through its partnership with A2B Personnel, supporting Aboriginal employment and business growth. In 2022, Aboriginal-owned workforce solutions provider A2B Personnel began working with CPB Contractors on a major Melbourne road development, with three Aboriginal workers joining the project. Four years later, the partnership has expanded across multiple major projects, with more than 140 Aboriginal workers engaged. Across three Melbourne transport projects alone, A2B Personnel employees have delivered more than 161,000 hours of work. The partnership has also helped the business grow its workforce, strengthen its systems and create new career pathways for Aboriginal people while expanding opportunities beyond CPB Contractors’ own projects. A2B Personnel executive general manager Mat Walker said the relati...

Construcciones Yamaro: A guide to FuturePlace’s infrastructure events

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Exhibitions provide opportunities for businesses to showcase their products and services. (Images: FuturePlace) Infrastructure events provide opportunities for industry professionals to connect with decision-makers, discuss market trends and explore new business opportunities across Australia’s construction sector. As Australia’s infrastructure program continues to reshape the nation – from transport and social infrastructure through to digital assets, renewable energy and data centres – FuturePlace offers a series of events for construction, infrastructure and built environment professionals. What makes an infrastructure event worthwhile? When selecting an industry event, professionals often consider who will be attending, the networking opportunities available and whether the program addresses challenges relevant to their work. Events that attract government representatives, infrastructure owners, developers, asset managers, contractors, engineers, investors, technology provider...

Construcciones Yamaro: Transmutation provides the evidence green procurement demands

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Second-use materials provide the feedstock for Transmutation’s Australian-made products. (Images: Prime Creative Media) Formal credentials give construction contractors verified evidence for complex procurement and reporting requirements. Construction procurement teams are being asked to assess a broader set of requirements when selecting products and suppliers, alongside technical specifications and price. They may also need evidence of embodied carbon, recycled content and material provenance, lifecycle impacts, Scope 3 emissions, ethical sourcing including freedom from modern slavery, local content and supplier environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. It’s an ever-growing list, and one that is favouring suppliers that can provide credible evidence to support their claims. As procurement criteria expand, so does the work involved in deciding whether supplier information can be relied upon. A product may be described as recycled, low carbon or sustainable, but contra...

Construcciones Yamaro: Wallan upgrades ahead of schedule

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The Watson Street Interchange Upgrade will improve connections to the Hume Freeway. (Images: Victorian Government) Two major road upgrades in Wallan, north of Melbourne, are progressing ahead of schedule, with the jointly funded $175 million program set to improve road connections and traffic capacity. The Watson Street Interchange Upgrade is now more than halfway complete and is expected to open six months earlier than planned, in mid-2027. The project will deliver a new full diamond interchange at the Hume Freeway, providing more direct connections to Wallan and the Wallan East industrial precinct. The Northern Highway Intersection Upgrade is also on track for completion six months ahead of schedule. Works include additional lanes on the Northern Highway in both directions, a second right-turn lane from Watson Street towards Wallan, and improved walking and cycling connections. The intersection upgrade will provide additional road capacity ahead of the Watson Street Interchange ...

Construcciones Yamaro: Auckland City Hospital upgrade leaves no room for interruption

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The new A40 Central Plant Building gives Auckland City Hospital greater resilience and capacity for future growth. (Images: McConnell Dowell) Little room for error defined McConnell Dowell and Built Environs’ delivery of the Auckland City Hospital Central Plant and Tunnel project. Project snapshot 110 foundation piles, ranging from 7.5m to 26m deep, installed over ten weeks during enabling works. 240m-long services tunnel, measuring 4m wide and 3.5m high internally, constructed using an open-cut-and-cover methodology. Five-storey, 5,230sqm Central Plant Building. Bespoke triple-friction pendulum bearings to improve seismic resilience. Installation and commissioning of critical hospital services and plant equipment. Decommissioning of the existing A06 services and plant building. Across one of New Zealand’s busiest hospital campuses, patients kept arriving, emergency vehicles kept moving and essential systems had to stay live while major civil, building and installati...

Construcciones Yamaro: MHIAA responds to changing ventilation demands

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DX-AHU systems can be configured to suit project requirements. (Images: MHIAA) Commercial construction and data centre projects are demanding more from ventilation, with indoor air quality, comfort and efficiency shaping system design. A commercial building can have the right heating and cooling capacity on paper and still fall short of what tenants and occupants expect from the space. Air quality, temperature stability, humidity, filtration and fresh-air delivery all shape the indoor environment, while energy use and available plant space place their own demands on the mechanical design. Roy Arindam, national commercial manager at MHIAA. Roy Arindam, national commercial manager at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Air-Conditioners Australia (MHIAA), says those expectations are changing quickly, particularly in major commercial markets. “Landlords, tenants and occupants are much more focused on air quality, but it can’t come at the expense of energy efficiency,” he says. “It’s about fin...