BWA | JUL 2026 11 more than 25,000 pre-cast concrete tunnel segments made in Benalla. By that stage, more than 8,000 people were working across North East Link, with the project expected to create more than 12,000 jobs in total and 10% of work hours being delivered by apprentices, trainees and cadets. That workforce story is important because large infrastructure projects are often discussed only in terms of cost and congestion relief. North East Link is also a major industry-capacity project. It is training workers, engaging specialist tunnelling expertise, supporting local manufacturing through concrete segment production, and creating opportunities across civil construction, engineering, traffic management, systems integration, road operations and long-term maintenance. For the construction sector, it is a live demonstration of the kind of integrated delivery capability required to build major urban infrastructure in a dense, complex city environment.
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