Increase of thefts in construction industry
9 out of 10 companies in the construction industry have been stripped of tools according to a survey conducted by ‘Bygg og Anlegg’.According to the…
Construction industry
Immigrants working in the construction industry are usually injured at work
Immigrants in handicrafts are four times more often injured at work than Norwegians, and they are more exposed to harmful noise, dust, smoke, gases and…
Optimism in the construction industry
Employers in the construction industry are planning for a ‘’heavy workforce’’ next quarter, reported Manpower. In a survey conducted among 753 Norwegian companies,one of…
Lower growth for construction industry next year
Growth in the construction industry is expected to be 6.8% this year, but it will be far lower over the course of the next two…
Continued increase in building and construction industry
The activity in the building and construction industry continued to rise in the 2nd quarter of 2017. Overall, the seasonally-adjusted figures showed 0.9 per…
Strong start to 2017 for construction industry
The turnover in the construction industry was NOK 61.8 billion in the 1st period of 2017. This corresponds to a growth of 10.4 per cent…
Temporary labour contracts on Ap leader’s project
Workers with temporary labour contracts on Støre’s housing project In a housing project that Labour leader Jonas Gahr Støre has invested in, a number of…
Fewer young Norwegians choose to enter the construction industry
While employment in the construction industry increased by 11% between 2008 and 2014, the number of young Norwegians within the industry went down. Migrant workers…
The construction industry is boosted by population growth in Oslo
Housing start-ups are at the highest level since 1980, and growth is particularly powerful in Oslo. According to figures from Byggenæringens Landsforening (BNL), shown in…
Orders Decline in construction industry
The value of new orders for the construction industry fell by 22 percent from the second to the third quarter of this year. Since the…
Many lack HMS Safety cards in the construction industry
35 percent of workers in the construction industry also lack so-called HMS cards. Safety cards are identification cards that provide information about who the workers…
Decline in construction industry in Rogaland in 2015
The local kind-of-activity units in the construction industry in Rogaland had a decline of 2.6 per cent in 2015, while the overall growth in construction…