Every downturn cuts training. The bill lands a decade later
Construction cuts trainees first in every downturn. The gap shows up a decade later in the senior seats nobody can fill. A hypothesis, and how we'll test it.
Insights · Where the market is going
What the market's moves mean for the people in it.
Sector shifts, policy and the firms changing shape, read for what they do to careers.
Construction management puts the client back in charge. Is the client ready?
A developer and a law firm say design and build has lost its edge on complex schemes. The contract argument is sound. The harder question is whether clients have the people to carry the risk that comes home.
Early contractor involvement de-risks the scheme. Who de-risks the room?
Balfour Beatty's regional civils MD says ECI is how you take risk out of infrastructure schemes. She is right. But the process only works if the right people are in the room on both sides, and nobody puts them on the risk register.
The contractor that chose to stop contracting
Durkan Holdings has walked away from contracting entirely after fifty years, blaming regulatory risk rather than a lack of work. What that decision means for where the industry's compliance-savvy senior talent goes next, and what it should tell you about the risk you're paid to carry.
The experience we cannot afford to lose
Why retaining older workers, and passing on what they know, has become one of the most pressing questions in UK construction and infrastructure.
The Hard Hat and Graduation Gap
For the first time in a generation, a prime minister has said out loud what construction has been muttering for years. Andy Burnham's plan to put technical training on an equal footing with academic
The Ground Beneath Us: What a Land Value Tax Would Actually Do to Construction
Andy Burnham has backed a land value tax since 2010. He is now the likely next Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Burnham and the Built Environment: What a Place-Led Government Could Mean for UK Construction
Whether or not he reaches Number 10, the shift his rise represents has real consequences for how, where and what we build.
The Generation Standing Outside the Gate
Alan Milburn called them an anxious generation this week. Not a soft one. Not snowflakes. Anxious. And the difference between those two words is the whole argument.
Quiet Exodus Tier One
Senior commercial and operational leaders are quietly leaving Tier 1 UK contractors. The four reasons driving the exodus and what it means for 2026.