News | 28 April

Civil Contractors Federation Victoria’s submission on the state’s 30-year Infrastructure Strategy urges greater involvement of civil contractor expertise in the early strategic planning and design of projects.

Infrastructure Victoria invited submissions to its draft strategy, based on five themes – including environment and sustainability, transport and better social equity – and developed six objectives to guide the strategy’s update.

From industry’s perspective, perennial challenges to be addressed include:

  • Workforce capacity issues;
  • Continued funding inequality between public and private vocational training (VET), and;
  • A lack of consideration for the civil expertise that delivers the underpinning enabling infrastructure that the Government and community rely on.

CCF Victoria says for all the strategic civil engineering, planning and design, it is the civil contractors on the ground, at the coalface, who practically deliver our state’s infrastructure.

In doing so, they develop bankable insights based on real experience – including solutions for complex challenges inherent in brownfields infill developments – that can be put to good effect in helping Government determine the best ways forward.

CCF Victoria applauds Infrastructure Victoria for opening up this important consultation to industry submissions and looks forward to greater industry engagement and collaboration to deliver the enabling infrastructure that underpins Housing, Energy and Transport.

Read our submission: https://online.fliphtml5.com/lwtil/mriv/#p=1

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