Here is the ACIF’s summary of the Treasurer’s speech and Budget Paper No.1 in the 2021-22 Budget Papers relevant to the Australian construction industry. All text and graphics are taken directly from these publications.

BlueScope will be partnering with the peak body for Australia’s off-site construction industry, prefabAUS.

PrefabAUS, the peak body group for Australia’s offsite construction industry, announces the appointment of Damien Crough as Executive Chair. Crough co-founded prefabAUS in 2013, and until now has been busy with other business pursuits in the industry, before stepping into the full-time role of Executive Chair this month.

Our industry is all about innovation. To succeed, it is crucial for us to showcase fresh, relevant ideas that tackle real issues facing the industry.

Prefabricated industry website Built Offsite launching new weekly newsletter on October 26.

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The CFMEU Victoria and Master Builders Victoria have today joined other union and employer groups for a collaborative new campaign focused on workplace safety in the building, construction and development industry.

XLAM’s expertise in CLT led solutions has actualised the construction of a boutique hotel on what was previously regarded as an ‘undevelopable’ site in Sydney.
From high strength to a lighter environmental footprint than concrete or steel, the benefits of CLT are proven.

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Industry Body Supports Increased Social Housing, Offsite Construction During Covid-19

prefabAUS is proud to be a signatory to the COVID-19 Guidelines for the Building and Construction Industry in Victoria on behalf of the prefabrication construction industry. The Guidelines have been adopted and agreed by the Victorian Building and Construction Unions, Employer and Industry Associations of which prefabAUS is one.

Industry Body Welcomes $28 Million Building CRC Announcement

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is sweeping the globe and the impacts on Australians, and our prefabrication sector, have yet to be fully realised. PrefabAUS remains in close contact with the Government and all relevant authorities keeping a watching brief as the situation evolves over time.

As one of the biggest prefabricated building fair, every year PMMHF displays a most comprehensive industry chain and the cutting-edge products. For the 2020 show, PMMHF will receive 350+ exhibitors on a 32,000 sq.m show floor. Among all concurrent events, Global Prefabricated & Industrialized Building Development Summit 2020 is the most attracting one for its excellent speaker lineup and wonderful speeches.

For our next prefabAUS Talks we will be welcoming speaker Rick Holliday, Chief Executive Officer of Factory_OS, San Francisco. After successfully trialling modular elements from other manufacturers in his apartment projects, Rick decided to establish a factory to manufacture volumetric housing modules. Almost immediately Factory OS was approached by Google to build 300 apartment units for Google employees.

Is disruption's time coming? Demand for offsite + MMC and the technologies that support them, is on the rise in major global markets, while in Australia, move to advance the knowledge exchange and create industry pipeline, along with investment in 'ConTech', indicate a new growth phase.

Sydney Build is part of Oliver Kinross's Build Series, also taking place in London, Chicago and New York. First launched in 2016, the expo is dedicated entirely to building and construction opportunities in Sydney and its surrounding regions. 

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the appointment of Mr Chandler was part of the NSW Government’s commitment to implementing the biggest overhaul to building laws in the State’s history.

Concerns over how to deal with the leftovers from our building activities are not new. In the early 2000’s Cradle To Grave (C2C) thinking essentially envisioned the substitution of toxic base materials with more environmentally friendly ones. C2C and other concepts such as “Zero Waste” have held currency for some time, but now thinking is turning to the term ‘Circular Economy’ (CE), an approach that envisions buildings as repositories of value, with potential implications for offsite construction.

In London last week at an event attended by 140 people, Cast launched a new digital app that it has been working on for the last 20 months. Developed in partnership with Bryden Wood, PRISM is the first web based app in the world operating on an open source basis and supported at a city government level.

The UK Government launched a cross industry working group tasked with supporting the mortgage finance, insurance and valuation communities in better understanding and supporting the greater use of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) across residential development.

From safety to efficiency to sustainability, there are so many reasons to get on board the prefab and modular building movement.