Tuggerah based Mirait Technologies Australia has won the contract to provide design and construction services for the first competitive fibre backbone between Perth and Port Hedland West Australia. To be built by one of Australia's largest fibre and solutions providers, Vocus, the undertaking, which is the first major project under their $1 billion investment programme, known as Project Horizon, is on schedule to begin deployment before the end of this year. Project Horizon, when comple...

Central Coast builder North Construction & Building has cemented its reputation for being a trusted building partner by receiving a 4.0 Gold Star rating under the new independent Construction Industry Rating Tool, iCIRT. To celebrate the occasion North hosted a Building Industry Forum at Mingara Club last month with some 200 invited guests and special Guest Speaker, NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler OAM. The iCIRT rating spans between one and five gold stars. The more gold stars,...

Held at the end of August the inaugural Central Coast Industry Festival’s highly successful Workshops programme (reported on in CCBR August) was succeeded by an equally successful three-day Expo at which some of the region’s leading manufacturers exhibited their products. Forty Central Coast manufacturers exhibited at the Expo plus a further fourteen sponsors. Over 800 visitors from business, the local community along with 200 invited high school students from local schools atte...

State Opposition Leader, Chris Minns MP and Member for Gosford Liesl Tesch MP attended a special members meeting of the Gosford Erina Business Chamber on  7th September at Drifters Wharf and met with Chamber members. Chamber President Peter Lawley in welcoming Mr Minns highlighted the many issues affecting Gosford including development of the Gosford Waterfront. Mr Minns said that in government he and the four local Labor Members would have a strong focus on the issues confronting the ...

Housing affordability options for Central Coast workers and the crisis that some 30% of local residents now face was the focus of some 150 local community and business leaders as well as local politicians at the Central Coast Housing Summit in early September. Also contributing to discussion were representatives from the Central Coast Local Health District, Central Coast Council, University of Newcastle, Urban Development Institute of Australia Central Coast Chapter and the Darkinjung Local ...