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Good news for residential builders and anyone looking at building a house at the moment. Once again, Western Australia has been rated the number one state in the HIA’s Housing Scorecard report for its residential building sector. This bi-annual publication ranks states on their performance under 14 different criterion including; detached house building, multi-dwelling building, renovations, construction labour force, housing finance and turnover of established homes. WA came out on top in the numbers of housing loans to first-home buyers, new detached housing under construction and established home and multi-unit sales.

ABS held our first Trade Information Evening yesterday for our local residential builders; giving them the opportunity to see how ABS works first hand, with a tour of our factory and showroom conducted by our managing partner Les Cowley and our production manager Vaughan Wayne. Les then demonstrated some of our stringent product testing, which ensures continued high quality of products and compliance with BCA codes.

This year's WA Architecture Awards showcased some very impressive designs from our WA architects and designers. Below is a link to the winners catalogue from the Australian Institute of Architects' website. The 2014 entries will also be on display in the lobby of Brookfield Place, 125 St Georges Terrace; until this  Friday 11th July between 9am and 5pm.

Congratulations to this year's WA winners and finalists from all the ABS team!

Melbourne property giant, Grocon, are having to replace half of the glass in their $180 million Westpac headquarters after imperfections became visible in the heat-tempered glass last week, according to The Australian Financial Review (www.afr.com). The glass was imported through China Southern Glass, China’s largest manufacturer of building glass.