Australian Construction Industry

The Australian house building industry has seen an increase in the average house completion time in the past decade. This increase in some Australian states was quite dramatic. For instance, Western Australia faced a seventy percent increase in the average house completion time during this period. Since houses make up more than seventy-five percent of dwellings in Australia, this increase affected a large proportion of housing supply in the country.

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This study presents a literature review of PNT requirements across industries. It proposes a requirements framework for three professional sectors that are being transformed by automation, connectivity and high-accuracy positioning. The PNT requirements of construction, agriculture and rail applications are reviewed and further validated by field trials.

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The research "The development of a work-life fit model: A demands and resources approach" sought to (i) identify the demands and resources relevant to workers of the Australian construction industry; (ii) identify the demand-resource profiles on different worker groups within a diverse construction workforce; (iii) investigate whether individual attributes influence demand-resource profiles; and (iv) evaluate whether Q Methodology was a suitable methodology with which to explore the work-life experience of workers of the construction industry.

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