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Dates announced for next ACIF Briefings
29 December 2011
Dates for ACIF Briefings in April 2012 have been released. Save the date for the ACIF Briefing nearest you - in changeable times, these industry Briefings are invaluable and unmissable. Includes release of updated ACIF Forecasts.
ACIF Briefings will be held in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra. Registration opens in February 2012 but save the date for your local ACIF Briefing from now - two Briefings were sold out in September 2011.
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Updated ACIF Forecasts online now
5 October 2011
Updated ACIF Forecasts have been released on the ACIF website.ACIF Forecasts give you the most accurate and cost effective market information on where new work is coming from, and how much. In fact, whether you're interested in residential or non-residential building or infrastructure, we provide the industry with its very own compass to the future. ACIF Forecasts have a well deserved reputation for success over the past ten years.
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Two speed Forecasts
30 November 2011
Whilst non-residential building activity remains sluggish, and there is anecdotal evidence of growing numbers of insolvencies amongst smaller contractors and trade contractors, there are looming skills shortages in other parts of the economy.
The private sector is yet to fill the gap left by the finalisation of the BER stimulus spending. Non-residential building approvals have been flat for most of 2011 compared to one year ago, indicating that the decline may have halted and a recovery is now about to begin. Uncertainty caused by Euro zone debt issues is not helping investment confidence.
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Senate inquiry into engineering skills shortages
30 November 2011
The Senate has set up an inquiry into the nexus between the demand for infrastructure delivery and the shortage of appropriate engineering and related employment skills in Australia. The inquiry will be carried out by the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committees.
The committee has been asked to consider the implications of the shortage for infrastructure delivery and the impact on economic development, cost, efficiency, safety and disputation, and the long term outsourcing of engineering activities by government on skills development and retention in both the private and public sectors.
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Scope for Improvement report
26 November 2011
Blake Dawson recently presented to ACIF the third in a series of reports, 'Scope for Improvement'. Research into the construction industry over 6 years, the report outlines the key reasons for the project problems such as late dellivery and over budget.
While the report finds that the industry has improved since the first report in 2006, still only 48% of the $55 billion in projects surveyed were delivered on time, on budget or to the required quality - so that means that 52% were not.
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