Early works on the $2.8 billion Alkimos Desalination Plant are delivering opportunities for local firms including Pipeline Technics, Georgiou Group and Steel Mains.
A contractor who lost a decade-long dispute over a $26 million contract on an iron ore project in the Mid West has launched legal action against the firm that represented it.
Iron ore miner Karara Mining has had a big win in its multi-million dollar dispute with DM Civil after a Supreme Court judge delivered a withering critique of the contractor's legal strategy.
The Supreme Court has dismissed a $25 million claim brought by local contractor AGC Industries against the developer of the Karara iron ore project in the Mid West.
A long-running dispute between Karara Mining and DM Civil over a contract originally worth $26 million has highlighted the extraordinary gulf that often arises between project developers and contractors when their relationship sours.
SPECIAL REPORT: The changing profile of the Water Corporation's $1 billion works program will present more direct opportunities for smaller contractors.
