Kellie Hassab, NSW Manager of Beveridge Williams, one of the largest multidisciplinary engineering, infrastructure and land development consultancies in Australia, has been elected President of the Association of Consulting Surveyors NSW. Ms Hassab’s appointment was announced at the ACS NSW Annual General Meeting last month. Meanwhile, Beveridge Williams recently was awarded the NSW Professional Surveying Organisation of the Year at the 2023 Excellence in Surveying and Spatial Informa...

A unique boutique brewery and farm attraction will be established at Calga in a joint venture between Glenworth Valley Wilderness Adventures owners and founders of the highly successful Beerfarm brewery operation in Metricup, Western Australia. The new Beerfarm attraction is a brewery and 280-seat capacity restaurant costing an estimated $6m. It will be established on 10 hectares of farmland at the Glenworth Valley property, near the intersection of Cooks Road and Peats R...

The 2024 Local Government elections will be held next year on the 14th of September bringing to a close three years during which Central Coast Council has been under Administration. It goes without saying that the few short years in which the amalgamated Council was run by those fifteen elected councillors headed up by Mayor Jane Smith was a disaster beyond belief. Of course, it was a disaster waiting to happen, with fifteen councillors from five disparate areas called Wards and most with n...

While the rest of the Central Coast languishes, Gosford is undergoing a construction boom with 18 cranes operating on sites within a kilometre radius of the CBD. The number of cranes in an area is an indication of the state of the construction industry’s workload in each location and the economic benefits they bring. Food businesses in Gosford are reporting strong sales from the large number of workers on these sites. Additionally, these projects will see over 1,400 new residential u...

Tuggerah based construction company, North Construction & Building has been named Large Commercial Construction Business of the Year – Annual Turnover over $50m at Master Builders Australia’s 2023 National Business Excellence Awards last month. The National Business Excellence Awards celebrates outstanding achievements in financial management, business operations, customer service, innovation, business improvement and resilience initiatives, and corporate social responsibilit...