Cordell Information and the Housing Industry Association have released the annual Housing Industry Association-Cordell Construction 100.
The report presents in-depth analysis of the engineering construction and non-residential building sectors and profiles the largest 100 companies operating in these sectors.
HIA's Chief Economist, Harley Dale, said that 2011/12 provided a year of mixed results for Australia's construction industry.
"Mining and civil engineering construction posted strong results. However, other sectors were less impressive and work fell over the year in the multi-unit and community sectors. Overall, the positive influence of the mining sector outweighed the negatives and the total value of construction work done increased by 18.1 per cent in 2011/12 to $155.4 billion."
"Australia's largest 100 construction contractors and non-residential builders were awarded contracts for construction work worth $70.9 billion in 2011/12. This result represents 57 per cent of the total value of construction work commenced," said Harley Dale.
John Holland Group topped the Construction 100 list for 2011/12 with contracts for construction work worth $7.09 billion being awarded during the year.
Around 56 per cent of the value of contracts won by John Holland Group was for civil engineering construction work ($3.97 billion). Community construction accounted for a further 24.9 per cent ($1.77 billion), while mining construction was the third largest contributor with 14.5 per cent ($1.03 billion).
Leighton Contractors were the second largest contractor of 2011/2 having been awarded contracts for a total of $6.50 billion of construction. Thiess was ranked third with $4.54 billion of contracts secured.
"The high value of projects in the mining sector meant the geographic distribution of construction work was skewed towards Australia's resource-rich states. However, it may surprise some that the value of work commenced in Queensland topped Western Australia in 2011/12."
"Queensland took top spot with a total of $42.3 billion of non-residential construction work commenced in 2011/12, compared to Western Australia with $31.3 billion," added Harley Dale.
