‘Get used to it.’ Can contractors’ hardening attitudes to risk be really much of a surprise?

By Dave Rogers2024-03-27T07:00:00

Last year’s business failures have hit a nerve. Firms finally seem fed up with construction’s rough and tumble, writes Dave Rogers

Last week, a report by Mace made headlines because, in a nutshell, it warned clients not to accept the lowest possible bids on jobs because they ran the very real risk of firms going bust on their schemes.

The report didn’t say it in such plain English but that is what it meant. Whether clients choose to listen is up to them but, for many, the answer is pretty straight forward: they won’t.

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