{"id":626580,"date":"2026-04-23T22:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626580\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:09:10","slug":"australia-construction-costs-poised-to-rise-as-concrete-suppliers-double-fuel-surcharges-amid-rising-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626580\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia construction costs poised to rise as concrete suppliers double fuel surcharges amid rising inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Australia\u2019s biggest concrete suppliers will double fuel surcharges on May 1, in the latest round of price increases facing home builders, as a report by Barrenjoey warns that inflation rates for new houses and renovations will be running at close to 6 per cent by September.<\/p>\n<p>Builders say they are already absorbing cost increases across a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/manufacturing\/boral-doubles-fuel-surcharge-building-products-soar-by-up-to-35pc-20260420-p5zpcu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new home or renovation<\/a> project of up to 8 per cent since the war in the Middle East sent fuel prices rocketing.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of Australia\u2019s biggest concrete suppliers will double fuel surcharges on May 1, in the latest round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-626580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}