Innovation needed to speed infrastructure build - Binns

Innovation needed to speed infrastructure build - Binns
Gavin Evans
Construction firms and asset owners are going to have to get creative if the country is to maintain a pipeline of work to help it navigate the economy through the post-covid-19 recession, Crown Infrastructure Partners chair Mark Binns says.There is no shortage of potential projects that could be included on a list the government wants prioritised for construction around the country within the next six to 12 months, Binns said.But to get work underway in that sort of timeframe, and with the added uncertainties created by covid-19 and the global...

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