The construction industry's labour shortage is structural. The AGC/Sage 2026 Construction Hiring and Business Outlook found that 80% of firms report having a hard time filling salaried openings — a higher proportion than at any point in the past three years.  For...

In most Australian construction businesses, procurement does not have a dedicated owner. It is absorbed by project managers between site visits, by estimators between takeoffs, and by directors when no one else gets to it. The result is a procurement function that...

Construction outsourcing in Australia began with estimating. Builders facing a shortage of local estimating talent — and project pipelines that could not wait for a 60 to 90 day local search — placed offshore estimators to handle quantity takeoffs and cost estimates....