The engineering construction workforce required to deliver Queensland’s major projects will need to at least double over the next four years. From around 15,300 persons in 2011/12, the major project construction workforce is expected to rise to just over 30,000 persons by 2014/15. According to the analysis of major projects, work done on major mining and heavy industry construction projects is expected to rise from $5.4 billion in 2011/12 to nearly $14 billion by 2013/14. Most of this growth will be driven by oil and gas ($3.4 billion in 2011/12 to nearly $8 billion by 2013/14) and coal workforce demand.At the end of the forecast period, in 2015/16, the near completion of several major projects in the list (LNG and coal) drives an easing in major project work done and estimated there remains a strong possibility that new mining and heavy industry projects will be revealed over the next few years which could sustain activity at very high levels in 2015/16 and beyond.
