Executive Summary

Government and private investment continued to be a key driver of Queensland’s economic growth in 2008-09.

Despite the impacts of the global recession, forecasts indicate that Queensland will recover by 2010-11, with economic growth expected to stay ahead of the nation.

Leading indicators show that the projected growth for Queensland construction in 2008-09 is 3.6% to $39.9 billion. The forecast for 2009-10 is a decline of 10.1% to $35.8 billion (extracted from the Mar 09 quarter update from the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research).

Queensland’s population will grow to 6 million by 2026 (22.2 per cent of Australia’s total population – ABS Catalogue no. 3222.0, Sept 08). To service this population growth and underpin the future prosperity of the State, Queensland spends more on infrastructure than any other State in Australia.

Construction is the third largest industry sector in Queensland employing 245,300 people. The sector represents around 11% of total employment in the State.

In September 2007, we released our first Strategic Plan. The Plan has guided our achievements that include:

• Regular Executive Committee meetings to attend to the organisation’s business and calendar of activities
• Establishing a dedicated QMCA Secretariat to service members and stakeholders
• Developing a Major Projects Resource Forecast report - the third update currently underway
• Developing an agreed annual QMCA budget
• Attendance by guest speakers at QMCA General Meetings
• Raising QMCA’s safety awards profile
• Establishing a safety subcommittee to find solutions to key industry concerns
• QUT relationship firmly established
• QMCA representation on BERT
• QMCA Website improvements, and
• QMCA represented on various client, government and industry taskforces and committees

 This Strategic Plan will build on our earlier plan. To this end, we reviewed the challenges that the Queensland industry is currently facing, and our efforts in addressing current and emerging issues.

In addition, we surveyed our members in order to understand their issues and priorities. From this, we developed the Strategic Plan that will guide us over the next 3 years. We plan to monitor implementation of the actions in the Strategic Plan and we will make any adjustments that may be appropriate due to changed circumstances.

Importantly, we will continue to:

• Strengthen QMCA’s reputation and recognition as a major industry voice and influencer
• Work cooperatively with industry clients, and key stakeholders on key industry issues and proposed solutions
• Cultivate rapport and maintain ongoing communication with other industry bodies
• Develop information, knowledge and time management tools to benefit our members.

Download a copy of the QMCA Strategic Plan updated as at June 2011