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in the last year, the company have been most successful in making this transition to developing an international client base by securing and implementing profitable projects. “over the last 12 months, we have been developing a more competitive service for our clients,” cites Doyle. as a consequence of this, the m+w thailand subsidiary have been able to continue to grow their thailand operations, increasing their staff levels in this country by 40% over the last year. the group as a whole currently boasts an impressive 7500 employees worldwide. recently, there has been an industry-wide challenge affecting construction business operations in thailand, which is a consequence of a
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series of political tensions. “the result of this is that foreign investors are more reluctant to give the go-ahead on projects. however, we would like to stress that we are not seeing people withdraw their investments, business with these clients is just slowing down,” Doyle emphasises. it is a known fact that the construction industry is suffering from a shortage of skilled labour and staff, with an aging demographic and the lack of a younger workforce to take their place. “it is getting harder and harder to find engineers in particular that have a good qualification,” says Doyle. “most of our labour is made up of local domestic labour. a problem for us is that all contractors in thailand look for labour in the same area, which makes it more difficult