Rain doesn’t just pause construction, it can throw an entire build off schedule.

Crews are diverted. Concrete pours postponed. Excavators sit idle. Schedules slip and trades move on, while the cost quietly balloons.

Now, new research commissioned by modular construction group Fleetwood Australia offers a glimpse into the scale of disruption, finding more than 84,000 single homes potentially lost to weather-related delays over the past five years.