NSW in Need of 150,000 Trade Workers in the Next 15 Years: Report

For NSW, it’s not so much a case of “build it and they will come” as a case of “where will they come from to build it.”

A bricklayer works on a new home in Albany, Western Australia, on July 5, 2024. Susan Mortimer/The Epoch Times

Over 150,000 tradespeople will be needed over the next 15 years if New South Wales (NSW) is to become a construction powerhouse capable of helping battle the nation’s housing shortage.

The Insight Centre report, Capitalising on the Next Construction Boom, found Australia’s most populous state had over $79.2 billion (US$50.9 billion) in construction projects this year, up from $75.5 billion in 2019.