Home building biggest worry for construction - Binns

Home building biggest worry for construction - Binns
Gavin Evans
Residential building is the biggest worry for the construction sector with many small “mum and dad” builders struggling just to survive the lockdown, Crown Infrastructure Partners chair Mark Binns says.The home construction sector is small and scattered and relies on a level of confidence that can’t be maintained by dropping in “a few big projects,” Binns said on an industry webinar Thursday.Some subdivision proposals are likely to stall as land developers fall by the wayside.Government role “It will be incumbent on us probably to pick tho...

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