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Australia’s built environment not only houses the majority of Australians and their commercial activity, it also makes a significant direct contribution to the economy and employs millions of Australians. The built environment value chain encompasses a lifecycle from urban planning to renewal. Structurally it is segmented, with many interests focused on sector impacts rather than whole of industry benefit. This is highlighted in the Building Confidence report which highlights some of the weaknesses of a siloed and developer led industry.

The value chain is experiencing significant disruption including Building Information Modelling (BIM), robotics, automation and advanced manufacturing. Technology disruption is not confined to single sector, but the impacts are being felt right across the value chain.

The parallel challenges and opportunities of building confidence, sustainable development and digital disruption, point to the need for a significant industry transformation – with changes required to how the industry plans, designs, constructs and manages the built environment. This transformation will be felt across the entire value chain especially in the area of skills and workforce development.

The Built Environment Cycle

The National Skills Commission’s (NSC) Skills Priority List (SPL) has been published and is now publicly available at NSC – SPL (or see download at end).

The SPL provides a current labour market rating and a future demand rating for occupations nationally. Current labour market ratings are also available for occupations at a state and territory level.

The SPL provides the backbone piece of labour market analysis on occupations that will inform a range of subsequent government policy responses, including targeting of apprenticeship incentives, training funding and skilled migration, although the SPL will not be the sole input to government decisions on these policies.

The evidence supporting the development of this list includes labour market data analysis, employer surveys, and stakeholder consultation with federal and state/territory government agencies and representative bodies, such as yourselves.

The NSC would like to thank those who provided input to the SPL process. Your responses have provided them with valuable insights and evidence on the current and future state of the labour market. The submissions received were a key input to the assessment of occupations for the SPL.

While the SPL will be updated annually, the NSC is keen to remain across any changes to the labour market for occupations as they occur, especially considering the ongoing impact of COVID-19. The NSC welcomes input on the SPL year-round as part of our continual review process. Submissions can be provided to SkillsPriorityList@skillscommission.gov.au. In addition, we plan to go out with the initial stakeholder survey for the 2021-22 process in September this year. We will provide further details to you closer to the date, an indicative timeline is below.

When	What
Year-round	Face-to-face/digital engagement with stakeholders as appropriate
September	Initial stakeholder survey
February	Follow-up stakeholder survey

If there are any other peaks, industry groups, unions, employee representative groups or regional representative bodies that you believe should be included in this process, please let the NSC know by emailing SkillsPriorityList@skillscommission.gov.au, and they will include them in their ongoing consultations/survey work.

Courtesy Workforce Analysis Team
National Skills Commission