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Tom O’Brien is partner and head of building consultancy at Glenny LLP Prices have been going up across the board, and with headlines dominated by the rising cost of living and sky-high energy bills, many industries have been feeling the sting. In the built environment, the BCIS Materials Cost Index estimates that…

Amy Jacks is restructuring partner, and James Morris is construction & engineering and international arbitration partner, at Mayer Brown It is always critical, in order to preserve value or protect your position, to take swift action in an insolvency scenario. Over the last couple of years – with Brexit, the…

Tim Marlow is founding partner of Chronos Consult Last week, the UK saw its hottest temperature ever, with an official high of 40.3o. The Meteorological Office says this is likely to happen again within weeks. As always, the industry has shown its resilience, with most sites remaining open. But, even…

Jonathan Nugent is managing director of Arbicon “It’s smash and grab!” says the defending lawyer of the big-paying corporation, as if some heinous criminal act has taken place in the payment process and the payer has been somehow hoodwinked into a legally-binding obligation to pay a sum that is not…

Tristan Hughes is business development manager at specialist provider OSSO Daily walks along riverbanks, canals, lakesides, beaches – they were a familiar routine for many of us during the long months of COVID-19 lockdowns. And I believe they gave us a greater appreciation of our local aquatic environment – a new…

Thomas Mayhew is senior associate at Fragomen Despite what you might have heard, the UK has one of the more efficient immigration sponsorship regimes in the world. Changes made last year to the post-Brexit immigration system have offered an olive branch of sorts to the industry, making many more construction…

Andrew Mather is director of Ramboll Climate science has been saying it for a while, but the UK is now starting to experience more of the extreme weather that will, sadly, only become more prevalent. As we continue to break new record temperatures, we need to face up to the…

Lorraine Gregory is regional director of CECA Midlands At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, few would have believed that one of the biggest issues we’d face as an economy is an unemployment rate so low that we could not find the staff with the skills to fill good jobs.…

Rob Burnell is regional director of Randstad UK There are two people who could become the next prime minister. The recent polling suggests Liz Truss has it in the bag. Rishi Sunak needs to be radical if he is going to move the needle and generate a last-minute surge of support for his…

Steve McSorley is director of civil and structural engineering consultancy Perega It’s a sad fact that town centres across the UK are struggling to re-establish themselves in a tighter economic landscape post-COVID. Department stores are closing across the country at a worrying rate, and reduced discretionary spending, as well as…