现在控制外劳，BTO可能需要更长时间建成BTO flat buyers face longer wait amid labour and supply strains Published on Mar 18, 2013 By Esther Teo Property Correspondent HOME buyers might have a longer wait for the keys to their Build-To-Order (BTO) flats. A combination of the construction industry labour crunch and a ramp-up in the Housing Board's building programme is stretching the completion period for new BTO projects by several months. The private sector has already taken a hit as contractors push back deadlines and take longer to complete projects, as the industry struggles with fewer workers. And this seems to have affected the Housing Board sector as well, with estimated waiting times for some recent standard BTO projects of 20 storeys and below being stretched to as long as 43 months. The National Development Ministry said in 2010 that the waiting time - from booking a flat to collecting the keys - for such BTO projects launched after the middle of 2011 would be about 2 1/2 years, or 30 months. Bu (more...)