Victoria is under construction. This is no surprise to residents who can little avoid building sites be they rail or road. A re-elected Labor government has doubled-down on its infrastructure plans with additional level-crossing removal projects and significant road infrastructure spending. The rest of construction however is a different story with both Residential and Non-Residential in decline.

Engineering construction is clearly on a bull run and a full pipeline suggests that this is not going to stop anytime soon. With the additional sites announced, the Level Crossing Removal Program now looks to be nudging $10b in value with the Southern Program Alliance (SPA) the next cab-off-the-rank. The ‘big 3’ are all contributing with the Westgate alternative commencing tunnelling, Metro Rail in full swing and the North-East Link on a hiring spree anticipating pre-construction works.

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*The content in this article was first published by Construction Advisor, March 2019.