Queensland’s major projects pipeline reached $139.5 billion this morning. The number I’d read twice is the year it peaks. The Queensland Major Contractors Association’s 2026 report has funded work now peaking in 2028-29 at $20.6 billion, 32 per cent above last year’s forecast for that year, as delayed projects stack into the later years of the decade. Add unfunded work and activity sits around $35 billion in both 2028-29 and 2029-30. The report reads that compression as pressure on labour, plant and materials, and it’s right to. There’s a fourth thing those years will draw on: how much disruption one community can carry at once. For seven years I managed the team delivering communication and engagement across a TMR regional infrastructure program covering the Gold Coast, Logan and the Scenic Rim. Since 2019 I’ve delivered engagement on many of the same corridors as a consultant on the client and contractor side. Nobody living in those places experiences a pipeline. They get a detour from one project, a night works notice from another and a letter from a third, all with the same logo at the top. As far as they’re concerned that’s one organisation talking to them. As schedules compress, those overlaps get more common. The time to plan for them is now, while sequencing is still being set. Proponents working the same patch who compare notes early on closures, notices and timing can give people one picture of what’s coming. The industry is counting workers and quarry tonnes for 2028-29. Communities are a capacity limit too. #CommunityEngagement #TransportInfrastructure #MajorProjects #Queensland