While the national construction sector is struggling with constrained supply of timber and steel, there’s still plenty of bricks in the supply chain.
The problem is there are not enough bricklayers to lay them.
In fact, the sector is facing a dearth of labourers of all types—and the issue will only be exacerbated by the two-week halt to construction in Victoria announced last week.
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