About QBuild
QBuild is a vital part of Queensland’s $45 billion building and construction industry*.
As the Queensland Government’s builder, QBuild plays an important role in communities across the state by building and maintaining government-owned assets such as schools, social housing, police stations and correctional and health facilities.
With about 1,500 staff and a network that includes 20 offices and 32 depots across the state, QBuild is well positioned to deliver construction and maintenance services to communities including those in regional and remote areas.
In recent years, QBuild has re-established its role in educating and training young people, contributing to a trade-qualified future workforce and ensuring the stability of the state’s building and construction industry for decades to come.
In a disaster event, QBuild staff are among the first on the ground, completing repairs and building works to help communities to get back on their feet.
*National Institute of Industry and Economic Research, Queensland and Queensland Region Construction Activity: Quarterly Projection Update, November 2020
Rebuilding QBuild
On 25 August 2019, the Queensland Government announced plans to ‘rebuild QBuild’ by employing 300 trade-based field staff, including 60 apprentices, over the next 3 years.
As at 30 June 2021, QBuild had welcomed 160 new tradespeople including plumbers, carpenters, electricians, refrigeration mechanics and painters. In addition 40 apprentices have joined the team. These frontline roles are located across Queensland serving communities from Thursday Island to the Gold Coast.
In addition to creating jobs for trade-qualified staff and providing education and training for young people, the initiative is helping to deliver construction and maintenance services to regional and remote areas of the state and improving the government’s ability to respond to natural disaster events.
Working with QBuild
Find out more about working with us.
What we do
We partner with government agencies to strategically manage their assets so they can focus on their core business – delivering services for Queenslanders.
In 2021 QBuild helped deliver approximately $1.6 billion of planning, building and maintenance works to Queensland Government agencies responsible for schools, hospitals, housing, police stations, correctional facilities, ambulance stations and other facilities.
Work is delivered both in-house (by QBuild’s own tradespeople and apprentices) and with industry and local suppliers to support local communities.
QBuild offers a range of professional and technical functions under three core services – Plan, Build and Maintain.
Plan
Involves managing agency assets and asset intelligence including:
- Asset Maintenance Lifecycle Assessment – providing condition-based asset intelligence (to a component level) to inform decision making process
- Asset Maintenance Plan – condition-based, four-year maintenance plan supported by 15-year predictive maintenance outlook (based on lifecycle assessment and other agency-specific criteria)
- management of government property disposals and acquisitions
- pre-lease investigations
- development/review of design guidelines.
Also available upon request:
- asset information capture
- asset register advice
- inspection approaches (risk-based inpsections)
- asset hierarchy
- assistance in developing levels of service, criticality and priority.
Build
Involves Construction Management (when QBuild is the builder) and Capital Works (when QBuild engages and manages the agency’s builder) including:
- assurance checks that new asset planning has been properly completed
- design and documentation
- project management
- construction management
- project due diligence and statutory approval
- statutory authorisation of work
- compliance oversight in construction delivery
- construction, commissioning and practical completion
- post-practical completion/defects liability period
- procurement management
- contract management
- standard reporting.
Also available upon request:
- business and strategic planning
- facility planning
- master planning
- design feasibility/options study
- third party design/document review and audit
- project scoping and specification for single-discipline projects i.e. building engineering services
- transition to proactive maintenance and asset lifecycle planning.
Specialist delivery methods include:
- Construction management contract (full ‘at cost’ recovery)
- Lump sum contract – construct only
- Document and construct contract
- Lump sum single-stage design and construct contract
- Two-stage design and construct contracts.
Maintain
Proactive Maintenance (keeping assets in working order minimising unscheduled downtime and breakdowns, and increasing asset life) including:
- asset maintenance strategy and delivery plan
- routine/regular maintenance at scheduled intervals or at specified thresholds to maintain assets to a specified condition
- statutory maintenance activities i.e. fire hose reels
- works delivered due to discovery of physical evidence of potential asset failure
- incident/event restoration activities
- project/program management
- standard reporting
- project due diligence and statutory approval
- statutory authorisation of work including for building work and plumbing and drainage work
- compliance and quality oversight in delivery
- procurement compliance and contract management.
Also available upon request:
- asset performance reporting (strategic and operational)
- asset assessments
- facilities management of a site (onsite or allocated, management of all asset maintenance scheduling, coordination and inspection).
Reactive Maintenance (restoring assets to working and safe condition) including:
- maintenance response and dispatch services
- unscheduled work to restore asset condition
- work required to prevent a threat or maintain safety.
Also available upon request: incident reporting.
eBusiness
Our eBusiness systems give our agency partners, contractors, consultants and suppliers access to administer their business needs with QBuild.
Access our eBusiness systems:
See the logins page to access the applications that support our products and services.
Partnering with building suppliers
Registering with QBuild
If you are a contractor, consultant or supplier and would like to work with QBuild, complete our registration process.
Prequalification System
Contractors and consultants must register through the Prequalification System if they wish to perform the following work:
- contractors: compete for major capital works contracts worth at least $1 million
- consultants: perform consultancy services on government building projects expected to exceed $60,000 in value (or with a service risk rating of 3 or 4 where the consultancy fee is less than $60,000).
Upcoming tenders
See Queensland Government's online QTenders for:
- upcoming, current and closed tenders invited on an open list
- view awarded tenders including construction projects.
Contact us
- Last updated:
- 8 November 2021