❓ Hon Ray Halligan asks about the government's plan to mitigate the projected 12% increase in the building costs index due to the capital works program. Hon Kate Doust responds with initiatives focused on streamlining processes, consultation, procurement, training, and asset management.
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CAPITAL WORKS PROGRAM - BUILDING COSTS INDEX
I refer to the government’s unprecedented capital works program and its acknowledgment that the building costs index is projected to increase 12 per cent in 2005-06. What is the government doing to keep this increase to a minimum? Hon KATE DOUST
I refer to the government’s unprecedented capital works program and its acknowledgment that the building costs index is projected to increase 12 per cent in 2005-06. What is the government doing to keep this increase to a minimum? Hon KATE DOUST
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I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. The following initiatives are assisting in keeping building increases to a minimum: streamlining tender selection processes to avoid excessive time delays; closer consultation with building industry peak bodies to improve coordination between government program workloads and builders’ capacity to construct; developing alternative procurement methods that are more flexible to industry and encouraging greater competition; implementing training initiatives to address skill shortages; and improving strategic asset management planning processes to balance project schedules to industry capacity.
Hon KATE DOUST replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. The following initiatives are assisting in keeping building increases to a minimum: streamlining tender selection processes to avoid excessive time delays; closer consultation with building industry peak bodies to improve coordination between government program workloads and builders’ capacity to construct; developing alternative procurement methods that are more flexible to industry and encouraging greater competition; implementing training initiatives to address skill shortages; and improving strategic asset management planning processes to balance project schedules to industry capacity.
I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. The following initiatives are assisting in keeping building increases to a minimum: streamlining tender selection processes to avoid excessive time delays; closer consultation with building industry peak bodies to improve coordination between government program workloads and builders’ capacity to construct; developing alternative procurement methods that are more flexible to industry and encouraging greater competition; implementing training initiatives to address skill shortages; and improving strategic asset management planning processes to balance project schedules to industry capacity.
Hon KATE DOUST replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. The following initiatives are assisting in keeping building increases to a minimum: streamlining tender selection processes to avoid excessive time delays; closer consultation with building industry peak bodies to improve coordination between government program workloads and builders’ capacity to construct; developing alternative procurement methods that are more flexible to industry and encouraging greater competition; implementing training initiatives to address skill shortages; and improving strategic asset management planning processes to balance project schedules to industry capacity.
I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. The following initiatives are assisting in keeping building increases to a minimum: streamlining tender selection processes to avoid excessive time delays; closer consultation with building industry peak bodies to improve coordination between government program workloads and builders’ capacity to construct; developing alternative procurement methods that are more flexible to industry and encouraging greater competition; implementing training initiatives to address skill shortages; and improving strategic asset management planning processes to balance project schedules to industry capacity.
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