Construction industry gossip: Alert but not alarmed

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2020-09-04T05:00:00

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Stuck in the slow lane

Anyone who has driven on a motorway in the past few years will be familiar with the dreaded sign “smart motorway”. It seems that great stretches of road, whether it be 23 miles of the M1 or 32 miles of the M4, are being upgraded at any one time. Do they have to be in such great chunks and do they have to take so long to finish? Anyway, Balfour Beatty and Vinci is doing the bit of the M4 between junction 3 coming out of west London and junction 12 near Reading. Balfour’s boss, Leo Quinn, is impressed at the speed of progress the JV is making. “Work is going like a train,” he says, mixing his modes of transport. Clearly he hasn’t taken a train in the past five years.

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