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Craft and related trades workers · code 7111

House builders

House builders erect, maintain and repair houses and similar small buildings using either traditional or modern techniques and materials. Tasks include - (a) preparing ground for erecting building or other structures; (b) erecting structures to support roofs, and building and covering walls with appropriate materials; (c) fixing rafters to roofs and covering with roofing material; (d) levelling floors to make them smooth and serviceable; (e) maintaining and repairing existing structures; (f) arranging for specialized work such as bricklaying, painting, plumbing and electrical wiring to be done by subcontractors; (g) coordinating and supervising the activities of subcontractors, labourers and other workers. Examples of the occupations classified here: - House builder Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Construction project manager - 1323 - Project builder - 1323 - Construction supervisor - 3123

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 55 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • house builder

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86.3
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 13.7 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 13.7 = 86.3

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

53.1
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

23.9
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 21.4 · hand skill 17.9 · cramped spaces 32.5 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on 50+ · fiddly under 39.4 Hands-on, less fiddly work

Less fine handwork and fewer cramped spaces than a typical hands-on job. That clears one hurdle for machines. It doesn't mean machines are doing this work yet.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

This number is probably too high

This score only looks at AI tools like chatbots. It doesn't look at robots at all — and this job rates 53.1 out of 100 for how hands-on it is, which is exactly where robots come in.

Have a look at the tasks below and judge for yourself. The ILO scored them low because a chatbot can't do them. Whether a machine with hands could is a different question, and we can't answer it yet.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 28.3, while the average is 13.7. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 28.3

    Coordinating and supervising the activities of subcontractors, labourers and other workers.

    Low
  2. 16.5

    Arranging for specialized work such as bricklaying, painting, plumbing and electrical wiring to be done by subcontractors

    Very Low
  3. 13.5

    Maintaining and repairing existing structures

    Very Low
  4. 10.5

    Preparing ground for erecting building or other structures

    Very Low
  5. 10.4

    Erecting structures to support roof, and building and covering walls with appropriate materials

    Very Low
  6. 8.5

    Fixing rafters to roof and covering with roofing material

    Very Low
  7. 8.3

    Levelling floor to make it smooth and serviceable

    Very Low

7 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

3 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
59
AI does it for you
22.7

Helping wins by 36.3 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1331, 3312, 8214

Compared with similar jobs

There are 65 jobs in the “Craft and related trades workers” group, averaging 83.4. This one is above that.