Victoria: More than 100 projects delayed as blowouts hit bottom line theage.com.au/politics/victo…

🏗️Want to hear all about the draft Australian Standard construction contract AS4000:2004: its missed opportunities and saving graces (including dispute avoidance?) Melbourne Law School Senior Fellow Owen Hayford shares his insights in our new podcast open.spotify.com/episode/2IdIPf…

Consideration by 5-member NSW Court of Appeal of ever-vexed issue: should intermediate Aust courts follow each other's decisions (test: 'plainly wrong' v 'compelling reasons' to not follow): Pallas v Lendlease Corp [2024] NSWCA 83 (esp Leeming JA [140]) austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdo…

🏙️Ongoing fallout from the 2014 Lacrosse Building fire in Melbourne:
Cladding fire at high-rise building blamed for top architecture firm’s liquidation theage.com.au/national/victo…

🌦️It is said that 'April showers bring May flowers'. On level 6 of Melbourne Law School, a rainy Melbourne day sees the flowers of our incredible range of Law Masters subjects well and truly blooming, today and right through the year! law.unimelb.edu.au/study/masters 💐

A wonderful opportunity to join my colleagues and me at Australia's leading law school.

Academic positions (Level B or C) advertised at Melbourne Law School jobs.staff.unimelb.edu.au/ci/en/job/9167…

👷Thanks to SCL Australia and Clayton Utz for a fantastic discussion about the challenges and opportunities in promoting gender diversity across the construction industry. Especially interesting about role of government in driving positive change through public procurement strategies.

👏The latest Australian Construction Law Newsletter opens with thought-provoking pieces by two leading members of our Melbourne Law School construction law community, our Professorial Fellow Doug Jones AO and Senior Fellow Owen Hayford. Well worth a read!
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A raft of regulatory reforms proposed or in train at the start of 2024 offer a pathway through that maze, but one which requires careful navigation.

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A lament about administrative failure at universities. The long and the short of it is, people who actually do stuff and make things work are so important: whatkatydid.net/p/a-lament-abo…

🏗️⚖️ We are so lucky in our ⁦Melbourne Law School⁩ classrooms to have an amazing view of the real world of construction.
Today we found out the answer to the age-old riddle: how do you dismantle a tower crane? With another crane!

Horrifying and horrifyingly familiar images from Spain. It has been clear for some time dangerous cladding is an issue in many other countries as well. Really, really hope everyone has got out 🙏 bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

'...the fire had spread so rapidly because the building was covered with highly flammable polyurethane cladding.'

Four dead, many injured - Valencia, Spain.
Ping Dr Matthew Bell

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4 years ago, #ParkvilleStation was a big, empty ‘box’ - 270m long, 30m wide and 30m deep, the equivalent of 97 Olympic swimming pools 🏊‍♀️

Now it has concourse and platform levels, connected by escalators and lifts, and multiple test trains running through it every day.

New PFAS ban underscores need to deal with PFAS contamination across wide range of Australian businesses
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