Construction industry gossip: Let's make myself clear

By Hansom2019-03-01T06:00:00

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Laing O’Rourke’s finance director Stewart McIntyre tells my hack that its hospital job in Canada, officially called the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal but abbreviated as “Chum” because it’s a bit of a mouthful, is pronounced Shoom for short. Given it’s lost the firm more than £200m, I wonder if those at the firm’s headquarters in Dartford call it something else.

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