In 2025, CCF WA was busy representing, informing and connecting the industry. Here’s our 2025 top ten achievements.
We were the voice of the industry, consistently advocating for policies to support a healthy and sustainable civil construction sector.
We regularly met with Ministers and other key decision makers and participated in dozens of committees and advisory groups right across government, ensuring the civil construction industry’s specific concerns were understood.
With governments increasingly focused on responding to the housing crisis, we reminded governments that civil construction is the essential forerunner to housing construction, and that policies must support and encourage both. Our advocacy ensured the ongoing inclusion of civil occupations in the $10,000 Build a Life in WA relocation incentive and the WA Designated Area Migration Agreement.
With union influence in civil construction continuing to increase, we ramped up our IR support services to members, providing comprehensive advice on issues including right of entry and enterprise agreements.
We published a detailed report, the WA Civil Infrastructure 10-Year Outlook 2025-2035, designed to assist our members’ long-term planning and investment decisions and to inform our advocacy to government.
We ensured availability of industry-specific training for operators affected by new ‘excavator as a crane’ regulations and supported industry through implementation of the regulations. CCF WA has been a lone voice for sensible regulation since the licensing changes were introduced in 2022.
We collaborated with government agencies to again host the annual Civil Works Safety Forum, a full-day event dedicated to encouraging best practice in WHS on civil sites.
We kept our members well informed, with more than 80 E-Bulletins and updates emailed to key contacts, providing timely and targeted information assisting them to run compliant and profitable businesses, plus regular webinars on a wide range of important topics.
Our Women in Civil initiative continued to celebrate and support gender diversity in civil construction, with events, a mentoring program, and a new awards program.
In response to Members’ enquiries, we provided one-on-one advice on a wide range of issues including workplace relations, prequalification, safety compliance, contracts, and payments.
Our Member Portal, on the ccfwa.com.au website, continued to grow as a reliable and exclusive library of information and guidance for Members.
We issued regular updates to our highly popular Pipeline of Government Civil Works, the most comprehensive guide to upcoming contracting opportunities (and awarded contracts) available.
We brought the industry together to celebrate our projects and people at the Earth Awards and Industry & Training Awards.
Our busy events schedule also included the annual Women in Civil lunch, three industry breakfasts, two golf days, two sundowners and four boardroom lunches.
We’re proud of what we achieved in 2025 but we’re also driven to keep improving member services, with some great new benefits planned for 2026.
