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Malcolm Fleming: Certified Builders Chief Executive on demand for construction workers increasing · The SME Stream

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  Speaker 1: It appears the confidence is returning to the construction sector.
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  Speaker 1: Seek as released its monthly job report and builders are
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  Speaker 1: the big winner. Job ads for construction jump three point
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  Speaker 1: four percent from November to December. Trades and engineering saw
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  Speaker 1: increases of one point five to two point six percent
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  Speaker 1: compared to last year. There are, wait for this, forty
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  Speaker 1: three percent more job ads for builders. And Malcolm Fleming
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  Speaker 1: is the CEO of Certified Builders in New Zealand and
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  Speaker 1: joins here this morning and morning tea.
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  Speaker 2: Malcolm, Good morning Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: So these jobs are they sort of like one offs
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  Speaker 1: or are they longer term employment contracts showing a longer
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  Speaker 1: term security.
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  Speaker 2: Look those numbers from secrearly encouraging and the whole they've
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  Speaker 2: being reflected on what we're seeing as well. So part
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  Speaker 2: of the membership benefit of these on Certified Builders is
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  Speaker 2: that our members have access to employment agreements and across
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  Speaker 2: January they are running a twenty percent up on what
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five averages were, and given that January
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  Speaker 2: is a typically slow month, those numbers are ready encouraging.
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  Speaker 1: Where are all the projects that these jobs are coming
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  Speaker 1: from right.
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  Speaker 2: Across the country. We've been talking about over the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of years that the likes of the South Island
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  Speaker 2: patches the North would have been sort of been the
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  Speaker 2: hot points of construction. We're starting to see this generally
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  Speaker 2: fly across more balanced across the country.
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  Speaker 1: We heard some complaints last year, of course, that the
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  Speaker 1: government stopped a lot of projects on their capex, on
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  Speaker 1: their actual their assey its either fixing up hospitals or
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  Speaker 1: building state houses and stuff like that, and that put
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the construction industry and the builders out
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  Speaker 1: of a job. Is that starting to pick up or not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was really unfortunate, the slow down or the
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  Speaker 2: stoppage of projects that were already in train, and that
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  Speaker 2: affected the industry really badly, about fifteen thousand jobs lost
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  Speaker 2: over across that eighteen months. We're starting to see that
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  Speaker 2: pick up now from central government projects coming onto market
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  Speaker 2: and we saw snippets of that late last year with
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  Speaker 2: school works, through defense housing, the Upper Norkland Live Imports,
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  Speaker 2: naval base, and that's starting to sort of go on
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  Speaker 2: through with hospitals and things. So we're starting to see
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  Speaker 2: those signs. But in general in terms of homeowners as well,
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  Speaker 2: they're starting to feel more confident about taking on projects
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  Speaker 2: and that confidence hasn't been there for quite something.
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  Speaker 1: And the other big story from this week is that
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  Speaker 1: Fletcher has sold off their construction arm to a French
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  Speaker 1: company called Vancy. Will will that affect building jobs or
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  Speaker 1: will Vancy just take up what Fletchers was already doing.
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  Speaker 2: Well because a really sad story. Were appointed to see
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  Speaker 2: the loss of the features as a commercial contractor. They
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  Speaker 2: haven't been in the vertical space for a while, that's
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  Speaker 2: in terms of buildings, and I've been sorely missed. And
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  Speaker 2: they had a bad run back in the twenty tens
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  Speaker 2: with three main projects in particular. It didn't go well
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  Speaker 2: for them, just as Pressington christ Church started too in
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  Speaker 2: auckland Bay International Convention Center which is just open. So
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  Speaker 2: the expertise has been sadly missed in that space. I've
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  Speaker 2: been in the storm the horizontal doing the infrastructure. That
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  Speaker 2: particular work will be picked will continue on just under
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  Speaker 2: a new name. But really sweet to see a real
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  Speaker 2: construction icon like Bletcher out of the commercial absolut instruction space.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Malcolm, and I thank you so much for your
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  Speaker 1: tell Malcolm Fleming. He is a certified build a CEO.
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