"There's other houses with the company that [are] going up — and they're a good company, they do good work — but I keep saying, 'Why is my house on the backburner?'" she says.While volume builders completing similar homes in a similar area would ordinarily bring in the "30 odd trades" required to do the work "in one hit", Ms Wawn says the current skills shortage means "we simply cannot do that process".
"It normally takes about nine months to build a normal residential home, it's taking up to 12 months, simply because we're not able to schedule the timing as consistently as we would liked to have pre-pandemic."According to the 2022 Arcadis Construction Costs Index Report, released in August, there will be more than 100,000 unfilled roles in construction in Australia this year alone.
"Supply of labour and apprenticeships are the bedrock of the construction industry, and have been forever in a day," Ms Dayhew says.Ms Dayhew points to the need for greater support for apprentices and their supervisors, particularly during the formative years of their training, although there's no "silver bullet" to improving completion rates, she adds.
The baby boomers are retiring and they were the last trained ( large generalisation but you get the view of a pie graph )
Too much government stimulus in an already overheated economy.
Aussie tradies are to busy fixing all the dodgy work that the Asian and Indians are putting out
All the tradies I know have either retired early or are currently in Bali. Good luck to them.
the actual problem is that nobody wants to engage in hard work anymore...
Good luck getting a house built these day. You need to build a house twice over a 30 year loan. Indians and Chinese are all the tradies these day. And the quality is crap
Boo Hoo pay me.
I don't get why tradesmen and organisations don't take on more apprentices? Waiting for the taxpayer to fix it obviously isn't working.
Maybe if we stopped importing 300,000 people per year we wouldn’t keep coming up short for: housing, hospital beds, doctors, tradies, etc Huge immigration the cause, not the cure The majority want less, politicians keep giving us more Democracy or corporations rule? auspol
Governments need to legislate that medium and large companies must have a legal number of trades apprentices. Sub contracting companies must also have apprentices to to be awarded contracts.