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| Over the next four years the NSW Government is investing $62.9billion in infrastructure, which will sustain an average of over 160,000 jobs every year. |
ISSUE 21, 31 JULY 2009 |
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| NSW businesses urged to gear up for demand in building products
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| Over 80 million bricks, 900,000 square metres of metal roof sheeting, 2.4 square kilometers of plasterboard, 3.6 square kilometres of insulation, 6,500 solar panels for new social housing and 7,500 roof ventilators in new school buildings are just some of the supplies estimated to be required to build Nation Building projects in NSW. Read more |
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| Education construction work underway in all ten regions
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With the commencement of works at Kangaroo Valley Public School in the Illawarra and South East region on 29 July, there are now on-site construction works occurring at schools in all ten regions across the state. Kangaroo Valley Public School received $850,000 to have a new library constructed. Read more |
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| Social Housing building activity ahead of the pack
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| Housing Minister, David Borger, this week reported that over 60% of the Stage One social housing program has already been committed in NSW with construction on 88 new housing projects commencing this week and a further 98 under construction. This is double what was expected at this time and well ahead of other States. Read more |
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| Value for money for primary schools
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| Education’s BER Integrated Program Office has developed a P21 School Project Budget Fact Sheet which explains how schools’ project budgets under the Nation Building Primary Schools capital works program are generated and how the Program Office ensures value for money on every school project and across the whole program. Read more |
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| Coffs Harbour Builders take the initiative
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| A group of local builders in Coffs Harbour have banded together to form a company to make the most of the opportunities presented by the Nation Building program requiring land and new social housing homes in the Coffs Harbour area over the next few years. Read more |
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| New Taskforce Policy on Consideration of Social Housing Projects under the Nation Building and Jobs Plan Act
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| The Taskforce has agreed that, given the timeframes required for determination, the volume of projects to be built and the fact that a guaranteed approval is not possible under Part 4 of the EPA Act, any social housing project submitted by Housing NSW that does not meet the requirements for ‘development without consent’ in the Infrastructure SEPP will be considered by the Taskforce. Read more |
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