Down tools: building completion slows by a fifth

Down tools: building completion slows by a fifth
Brent Melville
Building activity slowed by more than a fifth for the June 2020 quarter, as the covid response saw tools downed on site, though the impacts extended well beyond formal construction project shutdowns.That saw working delays of two months or more in some cases, with median delays of 33 working days for home builders and median project delays of 30 days on commercial projects, according to the latest quarterly building activity survey by Stats NZ.Acting building statistics manager Dave Adair said in most cases, and across all sites, projects were...

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