Resort projects: Local engineers 'can easily do 75-plus work'

Tue, Nov 9th 2010, 10:00 PM

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

Bahamian engineers could "easily do 75 per cent plus" of the work on standard land development/resort projects in this nation, the Bahamas Society of Engineers (BSE) president told Tribune Business yesterday, but warned that it would take time to eradicate the "ad-hoc outsourcing" of engineering services to foreign professionals.

Speaking ahead of the December 3, 2010, Engineering, Design and Construction Conference, which is being organised by the BSE in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce, Bahamian Contractors Association, arbitrators and architects, Robert Reiss, who is also a principal in Islands by Design/Reiss, said the Baha ...

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