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Speaker 1: So where are we at the old civil contracting world.

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Speaker 1: Been a big week of announcements. Of course, six billion

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Speaker 1: dollars worth of projects are up and running before the

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Speaker 1: end of the year. But then we got the latest

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Speaker 1: industry survey that shows seventy three percent saying the lack

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Speaker 1: of work is the most pressing issue. Allen Pollard's the

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Speaker 1: CEO of civil contractors in New Zealand And, is with us. Ellen.

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Speaker 1: Very good Friday morning, to.

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Speaker 2: You morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: So the seventy three percent in your survey that wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have taken in these six billion dollars we're set to

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Speaker 1: go now announcement, would it No?

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Speaker 2: Not necessarily, that was obviously a very recent announcement.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, would it change the view?

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think if you look at

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Speaker 2: the survey, while seventy three percent of knowledge that work

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Speaker 2: workfloads are a challenge, there is still some optimism medium

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Speaker 2: to long term. So it's a matter of how do

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Speaker 2: we get through the short term hiatus with experience for

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Speaker 2: the last year or say.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but when you talk about the hiatus, the hiatus

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Speaker 1: is ending. If you've got six billion dollars worth of

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Speaker 1: work coming between now and Christmas, it's already the end

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Speaker 1: of July. That's a lot of work, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's a fair bit of work. Not all of that

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Speaker 2: civil work, of course, a lot of its vertical construction

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Speaker 2: as well, hospitals and so on. But you know, we've

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Speaker 2: got an industry from the very far north of the

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Speaker 2: very deep South, and so it's great having a start

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Speaker 2: of somewhere as products come to market, but we do

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Speaker 2: need a lot more work to feed the industry.

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Speaker 1: There is this tension. I don't know how many interviews

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Speaker 1: I've done over the years where people say there's not

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Speaker 1: enough work, there's not enough pipeline, we need more pipeline.

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Speaker 1: How much work do you need worth how much? Over

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Speaker 1: what period of time for you to go tell you

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Speaker 1: what things are rosy?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't put a figure on obviously, but what

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Speaker 2: we've got to see as a trend and the trends

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Speaker 2: and produce coming to market quicker than there have been historically.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I appreciate your time, Ellen, Ellen Pola, who's the

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Speaker 1: CEO of the Civil Contractors. For more from the Mic

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