Key Takeaways
- WA construction contributed $28.4 billion to state GDP in 2021-22, or 8.7% of total GSP.
- Total value of construction work done in WA reached $42.7 billion in 2022-23.
- Residential building approvals in WA totaled $12.3 billion in value for 2023.
- In 2022, Western Australia's construction industry employed 128,500 full-time equivalent workers, accounting for 9.2% of the state's total employment.
- The average weekly wage for construction workers in Western Australia was $2,150 in the June 2023 quarter, 25% higher than the national average.
- Women represented 12.4% of the construction workforce in Western Australia as of 2023, up from 10.1% in 2019.
- METRONET rail projects in WA had a total budget of $10.2 billion as of 2023.
- The Perth City Link project involved 8.5 km of new roads and tunnels, completed in 2022 at $1.2 billion cost.
- Onslow Marine Support Base construction valued at $540 million, employing 1,200 peak workers.
- The 2023 WA construction fatality rate was 4.2 per 100,000 workers, below national average of 5.1.
- Lost time injury frequency rate in WA construction dropped to 12.4 per million hours in 2023.
- 78% of WA construction sites complied with scaffold regulations in 2023 audits.
- Construction output in WA is projected to grow 4.2% annually to 2028.
- Residential construction demand in WA expected to add 15,000 homes by 2025.
- Prefab modular construction adoption rose to 18% of WA projects in 2023.
In 2022-23, WA construction injected $28.4 billion into GDP and supported 156,000 indirect jobs.
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