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Data releases, market outlook, forecasts and state-by-state breakdowns.
Powering Skills Organisation's 2026 update adds data centres and housing to the energy trades requirement, and finds growth runs through about 48,000 electrical contracting businesses.
By Construction Australia · · 12 min read
Analysis · NATIONAL
Gold Coast Stage 3 is open, Canberra and Parramatta are building, and Woden is in approvals. Here is how four light rail extensions are being bought, and who is delivering them.
· 8 min read · Construction Australia
Analysis · NATIONAL
Hunter Transmission drew seven bidders by splitting the work into two packages, and the Bruce Highway program is reaching regional contractors the same way. Package size and structure are levers clients can pull.
· 6 min read · Construction Australia
Analysis · NATIONAL
Business cases allow about 7 per cent between their P50 and P90 estimates, while completed projects average 49 per cent. Most of what gets reported as an overrun is something else entirely.
· 10 min read · Construction Australia
Analysis · NATIONAL
Transmission is paid off through power bills under the energy regulator's eye, while WA is funding its Alkimos desalination plant from the State budget. How four utility megaprojects are paid for.
· 7 min read · Construction Australia
Analysis · QLD
CopperString and Borumba moved from Powerlink to the Queensland Investment Corporation. A QIC review identified $2.1 billion in savings on CopperString, including reverting the Eastern Link to 330 kilovolts.
· 5 min read · Construction Australia
Analysis · NATIONAL
Laing O’Rourke advises at Osborne, sits inside Queensland’s Games venues consortium and built METRONET’s Ellenbrook line — the clearest example of clients engaging contractors to advise, not to build.
· 5 min read · Construction Australia
Analysis · NATIONAL
Infrastructure Australia's projected peak workforce demand rose from 417,000 to 521,000 and moved out a full year. The reason it moved is the most useful part for anyone planning capacity.
· 5 min read · Construction Australia
