For more than two years, Colleen has been stuck in construction purgatory. She has the land, finances and contract to build — but finding tradies who can do the work is another story entirely.
"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.
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