CONSTRUCTION
A CHALLENGING START. MICHELLE LOWE Founder Redshell Consulting www.redshell.org
Well, this year has started with a bang! We, as an industry, have already proven ourselves to be flexible and responsive to the challenges of 2020. Which, by and large, were all COVID-19 related. The abrupt lockdowns, initial site closures and new operating procedures have by all accounts caused a bump or two, but not a fall. Am I bold enough to say, at this point, no real damage done? The government continued directives that “Construction must remain operational” have been our absolute saving grace; without that absolute clarity and support, or even push to continue, I am sure we would have fallen off the proverbial cliff. There has always been hearsay 062 – Qandor – Issue No. 10
and scaremongering in Construction – everyone has an opinion; everyone has lived and worked through a recession, or two. Everyone these days is a scientist. A construction site often has more gossip than a 1950s mothers meet. So, the point of this little ditty is to cut through some of the mutterings and note the reality of the construction cost challenges that we face as we stutter and stumble into 2021. The BREXIT Hangover BREXIT is done! Whatever “done” is yet to be fully understood, of course. Again, a huge amount of fear and gossip over, well, many years, has left us floating around in some kind of BREXIT fog. On Monday 21st December, many countries closed