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Boom time for construction? The view from Eeyore’s house

October 22, 2013 Brian Green

I feel for pessimists in construction at the moment. It’s really tough times for doom mongers. Every survey is running high, some touting record-breaking numbers. Meanwhile, forecasters are suggesting we are on the threshold of a phase of growth well above the long-term average. My God. It’s boom time. How can you talk that down? Well okay let me have a go. Not because I’m a pessimist (despite the rumours). Things are looking better. And I take a simple view…

The cost to construction of false optimism

May 16, 2013 Brian Green

For the past five years this blog has been perceived as a purveyor of doom and gloom and sometimes criticised for being so. I part jokingly retort that I may be gloomy, but I tend to be out-gloomed by reality. Here’s my take in 2008. There is plenty of scope I see now to have been gloomier than I was and not have been unreasonable as things have panned out. But this post does not concern who was right or…

Optimism rebased – or how we learned to be less pessimistic about things getting worse

March 6, 2012 Brian Green

There’s a lot of confusion over how well construction is doing. Various indicators point to improvement, other data suggest that the industry is in a hole and looking to dip deeper. But what strikes me when talking to folk generally is that there seems to have been an upswing in optimism.

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