There's a better way to build
There's a sea of money in building for 2032, and the workers who build it should share in the reward for building it better and faster.
Queensland is spending billions on venues, transport and infrastructure ahead of 2032. New construction enterprise agreements can pay efficiency bonuses and hand back a share of the savings to the tradies, subbies and contractors who deliver projects ahead of schedule — instead of that money disappearing into head office margins. Safety is paramount and is never traded away. Get in now, while the agreement is still being written.
We believe there's a better way to build. See what finishing early is worth.
Pick a project and see how much finishing ahead of schedule could put back into workers' pockets under a profit-share EA — modelled on real preliminaries and financing costs, versus a drawn-out job with no early-delivery upside.
Modelled on-site workforce: 750 average (peak 1,350). Victoria Park Stadium is estimated to be a ~5-year build — on a program that long, finishing well ahead of schedule is realistic.
share to workers $8.9m
share to workers $0
How this is modelled: Each day delivered early saves time-related preliminaries (14% of budget, 70% time-related, spread across the build's duration) plus financing-interest savings (6.5% p.a. on an average 50% capital drawdown) — the methodology behind Victoria Park Stadium's modelled ~$593,565/day. Here the full daily saving is treated as a worker bonus pool and split equally across the modelled on-site workforce; the real split would be set in the enterprise agreement (for example, pro-rata to days on site). Figures are modelled estimates based on gross-savings from Productivity Commission reporting, for illustrive purpose and to prompt innovative approaches, so it's not financial advice nor commitment. Actual savings depend on bargaining.
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BPIC, efficiency bonuses and the new EA
In October 2025 the Queensland Productivity Commission (QPC) delivered its final report on construction industry productivity, finding that labour productivity on Queensland construction sites had fallen 9% since 2018 under the Best Practice Industry Conditions (BPIC) framework. The QPC modelled that leaving BPIC in place to 2032 would cost taxpayers up to $20.6 billion in inflated project costs. The Queensland Government abolished BPIC from its procurement framework on 1 January 2026.
Source: Queensland Productivity Commission, Construction Industry Productivity Final Report, October 2025.
The 269-page template enterprise agreement locks in conditions well beyond the Building and Construction General On-site Award 2020: a 36-hour week instead of 38, rostered days off accruing at double the award rate (1 day per 10 worked, including 13 fixed "Industry RDOs" a year where no work can occur without union sign-off), and flat double-time on all overtime and wet-weather stand-downs instead of standard award rates. Combined, provisions like these have been linked to up to 96 lost working days a year on major sites. The Kangaroo Point Green Bridge, built under these conditions, ran 57% over budget with on-site productivity at around 60% of planned rates. These agreements have been criticised by the State Government that is ultimately responsible for the build being ready by 2032 and have concerns about the historic bargaining parties (see Qld commission of enquiry 2026).
Every day a major project finishes ahead of schedule, the builder stops paying for time-related overheads — site management, temporary facilities, equipment standing costs — and reduces the interest owed on drawn-down construction finance. On a project like the proposed $3.8 billion Victoria Park Stadium, that's modelled at roughly $593,565 in real daily savings once the schedule compresses (see the calculator above). An enterprise agreement can direct a share of that pool back to the workforce as a completion bonus, instead of it disappearing into head-office margin.
Rather than the CFMEU's above-award template, a registered single-enterprise agreement negotiated directly between a contractor and its employees can pass the Fair Work Commission's Better Off Overall Test while restoring a standard 38-hour week and a flexible 9-day fortnight, paying a base rate around 50% above the award (roughly $44.48/hr on a CW3 trade rate, versus the award's $29.65), and building in a genuine early-completion bonus tied to schedule milestones — something neither the award nor the CFMEU template currently offers.
Direct negotiations on the Olympic build program are getting underway now, as delivery shifts from planning into active construction. Registering your interest early is how you get a voice in the agreement before its terms are set.
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