Construction skills shortages,including lack of quantity surveyors, could threaten work on original homes and infrastructure projectsA shortage of skilled workers in the construction industry pushed up wages in the sector in 2015 and could threaten some of the government’s biggest housing and infrastructure programmes, or the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) has said.
Bricklayers and quantity surveyors were in particularly short supply,with six in 10 Rics survey respondents having difficulty finding them for projects.
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Source: theguardian.com