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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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