Construction industry gossip: Awkward questions

By Hansom2018-11-16T07:00:00

Clients experiment with a Cold War approach to contractors’ broken promises, Persimmon struggles to find a new boss unembarrassed by its own largesse, and the door staff get prickly at the Building Awards

Hair-raising tale

To the Building Awards, where one of my fresher-faced hacks had trouble getting into our own event. Turning up at the Grosvenor House hotel on London’s Park Lane last week, he was asked for ID by security in order to be allowed in. Happening to have his passport to hand, he was duly waved through – but with the advice that maybe he should “grow a beard” to avoid the same fate next year. Thing is, he’s not sure he can.

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