Construction sector to explore options to resumption of work in eight LGAs

The construction sector has welcomed the NSW government’s decision to allow projects to resume in parts of Greater Sydney with industry leaders exploring options to allow locked down tradies to begin work on “dormant sites”. From Saturday, construction in sites outside of the local government areas of concern will reopen subject to the one person per four square metre rule. However, construction workers residing in the eight LGAs will not be permitted to work on any sites across Greater Sydney. Although excited, Metricon NSW General Manager Patrick Eather said getting workers back into their jobs was still a “work in progress”. “From an industry point of view, we’re excited about the fact that we can get started,” he told Sky News Australia. “[We’re] equally very focused on how we can get ourselves to opening up 100 per cent and we certainly feel for those people in the LGAs that are under lockdown and is there any way we can actually think about opening up work for those that are in those LGAs in the meantime. “There are a lot of tradies that live within that LGA and work in that LGA and we think that’s an opportunity for us to look at and see if that’s workable. “There is an opportunity there to make use of the resources in the LGA, that could still work in the LGA on some of those estates that still remain dormant. “So those are some of the things that we’ve still got as a work in progress in the background.” The construction sector has welcomed the NSW government’s decision to allow projects to resume in parts of Greater Sydney with industry leaders exploring options to allow locked down tradies to begin work on “dormant sites”. From Saturday, construction in sites outside of the local government areas of concern will reopen subject to the one person per four square metre rule. However, construction workers residing in the eight LGAs will not be permitted to work on any sites across Greater Sydney. Although excited, Metricon NSW General Manager Patrick Eather said getting workers back into their jobs was still a “work in progress”. “From an industry point of view, we’re excited about the fact that we can get started,” he told Sky News Australia. “[We’re] equally very focused on how we can get ourselves to opening up 100 per cent and we certainly feel for those people in the LGAs that are under lockdown and is there any way we can actually think about opening up work for those that are in those LGAs in the meantime. “There are a lot of tradies that live within that LGA and work in that LGA and we think that’s an opportunity for us to look at and see if that’s workable. “There is an opportunity there to make use of the resources in the LGA, that could still work in the LGA on some of those estates that still remain dormant. “So those are some of the things that we’ve still got as a work in progress in the background.”

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