A construction workforce is built from a manning schedule, not from a job ad: trades in ratio, foremen, phases, and the country rule that decides which lines can come from the Philippines. These guides are organised by project and workforce question; the trades themselves live on the profession guides (carpenters, masons, steel erectors, scaffolders, plant operators, MEP) and the routes on the country guides — Gulf, Australia, Germany, Austria, Belgium.
Project and workforce guides for construction employers — how to recruit, crew composition and ramp-up, trade testing, infrastructure, building, industrial and fit-out crews — each answering how to build the workforce for a project and which countries admit which trades.
Construction is a shortage sector in every market we serve. Australian construction employers reported 50 % recruitment difficulty in June quarter 2026 (58 % in March), with Technicians and Trades at 58 %; the German Federal Employment Agency lists construction trades among its strongest shortage groups and 62 % of civil-engineering firms report unfilled positions; Flanders revised its shortage list for 2026 with roofers added; the Gulf's infrastructure, housing and hospitality programmes run on Filipino crews as they have for decades.
A contractor sends: 12 shuttering carpenters, 8 steel fixers, 6 masons, 4 scaffolders, 2 foremen, start in week 14. We map each line to the destination's occupation code and its rules, write a trade specification and a practical test per line, source nationwide through Prime Search, run the tests in Makati while the site manager watches live, assemble the crew with its foremen against the manning schedule, and run the DMW chain and the destination permit in parallel. That is the whole method — and the reason a crew arrives productive in week one instead of week six.
Which trades can come depends on the country, not on demand. The Gulf sponsors the full mix. Australia sponsors the trades on its Core Skills list — carpenters, bricklayers, tilers, painters, plumbers, electricians — and not concreters, plant operators or labourers outside a regional DAMA. Germany has no unskilled route and its experience route needs a two-year qualification; Belgium excluded low-skilled roles from economic migration in 2026; the Netherlands admits skilled routes only. Every guide in this cluster states the line for its role, and we turn down requests that fall on the wrong side of it.
General information for employers, not legal advice. Operator and country requirements change; we re-verify before each mobilisation.