SUBCONTRACTORS are banking on negotiations now under way to protect them from the worst of another major collapse in the Queensland construction industry.
Bloomer Constructions Pty Ltd closed a number of building sites across Brisbane last week, ahead of what was expected to be an announcement Tuesday morning about the company’s fate.
Instead, Wayne Bloomer, who founded the company in 1983 and is its executive director and chief executive officer, has been locked in a series of negotiations with clients and subcontractors in a bid to see projects completed and the workforce paid.
John Goddard, who heads the Brisbane-based Subbies United, said Mr Bloomer had told him he wanted to minimise the impact of the company’s f…
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