100,000 in construction ‘face dole’ without stimulus package

CHARTERED surveyors have called for massive government investment in schools, hospitals and other public building as the bulk of the country’s majorinfrastructural projects should be completed by mid-2010, putting another 100,000 construction workers on the dole.

According to Ken Cribbin, president of the Society of Chartered Surveyors (ISCS), a stimulus package would help stem the rise in unemployment which has seen the number of employed surveyors fall by 12.5%.

Unemployment among graduate surveyors is 27% and expected to rise to 40% by the year end, according to an ISCS survey.