Kreisson

03/09/2026

One statewide Community Participation Plan has taken effect in NSW, replacing more than 100 council and agency plans, though guidance on how councils engage their communities is still a month away.

The week's other terms were set on the grid and on site: data centres asked to bond and pay for their connections, a wind farm cleared to add storage inside an existing approval, and a trades forecast that widens as the same electricians are pulled in several directions.

The Pulse | 3 September 2026
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This week's reporting was led by rules taking effect and rules put out for comment, with the planning system and the electricity network each acquiring a single set of terms. 

27/08/2026

The Sydney Plan has been finalised, though the targets it sets run to 2046. Housing and employment numbers are now apportioned to each council area, and every council carries an ongoing feasible capacity test in its Local Environmental Plan.

The rest of the week sat at different removes from delivery: consents for a hospital and an airport upgrade came with builders engaged early and main works still years off, high speed rail systems bidders were invited into a development phase, and a proposed trust tax on builders remains consulted on but unlegislated.

The Pulse | 26 August 2026
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This week's reporting was led by consents and the blueprints behind them, with three major projects moving ahead alongside a new twenty year plan for Sydney.

24/08/2026

The Building Bill has now been assented, though its provisions commence by proclamation. Once in force, it will bring manufactured and prefabricated housing into the building approvals system, while the separate Bill carrying ten-year defect cover for apartment owners still awaits assent.

Elsewhere the terms were set before the work: data centre operators face six principles and six connection criteria, high speed rail contractors will settle scope before any contract is let, and regional inspections brought fines but no rectification orders.

The Pulse | 20 August 2026
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The week's reporting turns on last week's Building Bill, now assented but not yet in force, and on data centre, grid and rail terms set before construction begins.

14/08/2026

Two Bills cleared the NSW Parliament within a day of each other, and both are waiting on assent. Together they change who carries the risk when a defect surfaces years after handover, and how long that risk runs. Certifiers face a sharply higher penalty ceiling for conflicts of interest as part of the same package.

The same week brought a finalised twenty-year plan for Sydney, a rezoning that settled both its affordable housing rate and its approvals pathway, and delivery milestones running from the metro corridor to the harbour.

The Pulse | 13 August 2026
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The week's reporting turns on legislation that has finished its parliamentary journey but has not yet commenced. 

07/08/2026

NSW has changed the way buildings get approved, and prefabricated construction now sits inside the system for the first time. Certifiers face much stiffer consequences for conflicts of interest, while the safety regulator has confirmed where it will be looking this year.

The housing pipeline keeps widening, and much of the week's delivery news sat upstream of the buildings themselves: transmission, water and steel. Health projects offered the clearest progress on site.

The Pulse | 6 August 2026
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This week's reporting centred on the machinery of approval rather than on any single consent. 

03/08/2026

The Pre-sale Finance Guarantee continues to unlock stalled housing projects across NSW, while modular construction took another step toward the mainstream with the passage of the Building (Approvals and Practitioners) Bill through both houses.

Energy and transport delivery gathered pace to round out the week — conditional approval for the Hunter Transmission Project, a $1.3 billion solar and storage FID in the Northern Rivers, and a road procurement model set to become business as usual across the state.

The Pulse | 30 July 2026
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This week's delivery coverage has been dominated by state programs compressing the front end of housing and infrastructure pipelines.

30/07/2026

In case you missed it, we're running a free live webinar for anyone working under NSW construction contracts.

Three issues cause most of the disputes we see: back-charges, notices and time bars, and termination. Handled well, they're routine. Handled poorly, they quietly cost contractors far more than the original problem.

Johnathan Glinatsis, Associate Director at Kreisson, works through where each one goes wrong and how to stay on the right side of it, with real, anonymised case studies.

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28/07/2026

Most construction disputes don't start in a courtroom. They start on site with unforeseen site conditions, a delay nobody claimed properly, or a notice that went out late or not at all.

Johnathan Glinatsis, Associate Director at Kreisson, works through the three causes of dispute we've recently seen in NSW construction and what they actually cost the contractors who get them wrong.

⭐ Free Webinar
📅 Tuesday 18 August 2026
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27/07/2026

A claim that would succeed on the merits can be extinguished entirely by a missed notice window.

This is the real administrative burden of compliance.

Contractors often lose entitlements because they fail to give notice, not because they lack merit.

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24/07/2026

Precincts, pumped hydro and plyscrapers led NSW construction this week, with two major housing schemes advancing through the state's fast-tracked planning pathways.

A long-awaited pumped-hydro project cleared approval while councillors moved to object to two Hunter battery proposals. In major builds, one of Sydney's landmark towers reached a milestone and regional fabrication delivered heavy rail infrastructure.

The Pulse | 23 July 2026
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This week's reporting frames the NSW Government's state-significant pathways as the mechanism carrying the State's largest housing and energy projects into delivery.