Construction companies are forgoing hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts because they cannot find skilled tradespeople to do the work.
Thursday, December 4th 2003, 6:42AM
by The Landlord
Mainzeal and Australian-owned Multiplex, two of New Zealand's biggest construction firms, said yesterday they had decided not to bid for as much as $500 million of work.
Fletcher Building also said it had little capacity to take on new contracts, but declined to say how much it had given up