Plight of the Civil Construction Industry in South Australia
The industry is experiencing a twenty year low, characterized by diminishing private and public investment in projects that have historically been the mainstay of our sector. The absence of a pipeline of publicly funded works beyond the completion in 2014 of four large infrastructure projects in the CBD and metropolitan Adelaide is particularly troublesome.
CCF SA conducted this latest industry survey of its full membership (contractor s) ranks in early February 2013. Due to time constraints, 48 responses or 18.5% of this membership section were received, These represented a wide cross section of businesses operating in SA, namely large multi‐national companies ($100 million plus annual turnover), large and medium size contractors ($20 million plus), SME ‘s up to $5 million turnover and smaller contractors with turnover less than $2 million.
