Title page
Contents
Foreword 3
Abbreviations 10
Members 13
Terms of Reference 15
List of Recommendations 16
1. Introduction 20
Conduct of the inquiry and report structure 21
Background 22
Previous infrastructure reports and government responses 22
Committee comment 27
2. Infrastructure pipeline 28
Challenges and opportunities 28
Supply issues 29
Skills shortage 30
Enhancing planning, coordination and timing 33
Planning the pipeline 33
Coordination and timing 37
Harmonisation 38
Committee comments 39
3. Role of government 41
Australian Government infrastructure funding 42
Funding agreements 42
Federation Funding Agreements Framework 42
Opportunities for influence and collaboration 44
Government business enterprises 48
Grants 50
Role of National Cabinet 52
Government cooperation 54
Committee comments 55
4. Procurement, risk and value 57
Overview of government procurement 57
Commonwealth procurement 57
State, territory and local government procurement 58
Recent developments 59
Leveraging procurement to drive reform 62
Standardisation 63
Risk management 65
Allocating risk 65
Scoping and understanding risk 67
Improving risk management 68
Risk and insurance 70
Civil liability reform 71
Best value over lowest cost 73
Expertise--Based Project Delivery best value approach 79
South Australian Industry Advocate model 81
Government procurers 82
Committee comments 86
5. Collaboration and contracts 90
Enhancing collaboration with industry 90
Early market engagement 92
Being a model client 95
The Project 13 model 96
Sydney Water and partnering for success 99
Contracts 100
Adversarial culture and disputes 101
Unfair contract terms 102
Traditional contracting 103
Alliance contracting 105
Public-private partnerships 106
Standard contracts and leading models 108
NEC4 suite of contracts 110
FIDIC contracts 113
Defence contracts 115
Committee comments 115
6. Australian industry capability 117
Australian sovereign industry capability 117
International obligations 120
Free trade agreements 120
World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement 122
Foreign owned companies and investment 123
Foreign owned companies 123
Attracting foreign investment 125
Improving access for small and medium enterprises 126
Unbundling projects 128
Industry sustainability criteria 130
Insurance, retention and surety requirements 132
Insurance market challenges 132
Retention and surety issues 134
Local content 136
Australia and New Zealand Government Procurement Agreement 137
Supporting industry participation 138
Australian Industry Participation 138
Local industry participation 140
Defence engaging local industry 147
Committee comments 149
7. Technology 152
Digital by default 154
Digital engineering 155
Building Information Modelling and digital delivery 156
Definitions 156
Building Information Modelling 156
Digital delivery 158
Digital twins 158
BIM and digital delivery: benefits and challenges 159
Digital upskilling 164
Committee comments 165
8. Addressing cultural reform in the construction industry 168
Current workplace standards 168
Productivity in the construction industry 169
Construction Industry Culture Taskforce 170
Mental health and wellbeing 171
Gender diversity 174
Committee comments 178
Appendix 181
A. List of submissions and exhibits 181
B. Public hearings and witnesses 185