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The Queensland Government has demonstrated national leadership in construction industry reform, with the release on 21 January 2026 of its response to the Queensland Productivity Commission's Final Report on opportunities to improve productivity of the construction industry.
Industry leaders and government officials explore how Queensland's Games preparation presents opportunities for lasting transformation for Modern Methods of Construction in Queensland and the opportunity to fundamentally reshape Australia's construction industry. But as a distinguished panel of industry leaders and government officials acknowledged, realising this potential requires coordinated action across capacity building and industry support, policy and regulatory environment, and long-term strategic thinking.
International manufacturers are eyeing Australia's construction crisis as an opportunity. At prefabAUS's annual general meeting on 28 August 2025, members voted to establish an international category of membership—a strategic move designed to shape an inevitable trend rather than simply react to it.
Speaking at Offsite25, the annual conference of prefabAUS on 28 August 2025, Associate Professor Dominik Holzer from the University of Melbourne delivered a compelling presentation on how Artificial Intelligence could revolutionise the prefabrication industry.
From sacrificial formwork to sophisticated manufacturing: Clarinda Ho and Norm Roberts are leading OFFSITE’s ambitious mission to close construction’s productivity gap by building more efficiently and redefining housing delivery in Western Australia through modern methods of construction, scaling affordability at industrial speed.