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Richard Robinson is an Associate Director, who works across the Construction & Infrastructure and Economics consulting teams. Richard has over 35 years of experience in analysis, consulting and forecasting of macroeconomic variables, resources, investment and civil engineering construction activity, output and employment by industry sector by state, other key state economic variables, as well as production of manufactures, consumer goods and commodities. He was the chief economic forecaster and a regular presenter at conferences for BIS Shrapnel, prior to the takeover by Oxford Economics.

Richard has worked on a wide range of consultancy projects, including cost escalation for wages and materials; formulating end-use sector demand models for forecasting product demand, energy, electricity, employment, land use and transport-related variables; studies of the Australian cement and concrete, steel and gas markets.