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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Construcciones Yamaro: Freecity Construction wins NAWIC Allyship in Action challenge

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Freecity Construction won the Allyship in Action Industry Challenge. (Images: NAWIC) One initiative is turning workplace culture goals into measurable progress in the construction industry, with Freecity Construction leading the way. By Cathryn Greville, CEO of the National Association of Women in Construction. The strong momentum generated during the recent Industry Challenge phase of the National Association of Women in Construction’s (NAWIC) Allyship in Action initiative shows how turning intention into action supports culture change, with 65 organisations taking part and 2,600 people enrolled. Cathryn Greville, CEO of NAWIC. The three-month challenge, which finished on 23 July, invited organisations across Australia’s construction and built environment sector to complete the program’s online Male Allies Training and demonstrate leadership in building safer, more respectful and inclusive workplaces. The online training is part of NAWIC’s three-year, $5 million Allyship in Acti...
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Construcciones Yamaro: The infrastructure choices shaping Australia’s future prosperity

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Infrastructure delivers greater value when projects are planned as part of a broader system. (Image: chungking/stock.adobe.com) Australia’s future prosperity depends on infrastructure that connects industries, communities and opportunities, rather than projects planned in isolation. By Liam O’Donohue, Australia and New Zealand managing principal at Arup. From AI and the energy transition to an ageing population and geopolitical uncertainty, Australia is facing several major transitions at once that will affect the next era of our nation’s prosperity. Whether these forces constrain our growth or become foundations for a more productive and resilient economy will depend, in large part, on the infrastructure choices we make today. Liam O’Donohue, Australia and New Zealand managing principal at Arup. (Image: White Room Studio) The traditional approach to infrastructure has been to focus mainly on one asset at a time: a road, a rail line, a port, an energy project. Today, we accept tha...
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Construcciones Yamaro: How spatial intelligence can improve construction productivity

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Spatial capture gives project teams a clear record of site conditions and progress. (Image: Cupix and Gorodenkoff/stock.adobe.com) Spatial intelligence can give construction teams a more accurate view of what is happening on site before delays and rework take hold. Despite years of focus on productivity, construction projects continue to lose time through rework, delays and inefficient processes. For Michael Cook, director of solutions and customer success at Cupix, the physical construction work is usually not the bottleneck; it is the time spent searching for information, coordinating across disconnected systems and determining the appropriate path forward. That lost time can begin with poor coordination between the office and site, as delivery teams wait for updated drawings, clarifications, approvals or responses to requests for information before work can proceed. It can continue through progress reporting, with teams collecting thousands of site photos, updating spreadsheets ...
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