Construction industry gossip: May the (air) force be with you

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2021-08-16T05:00:00

With US giants gobbling up UK firms, can only those with special powers resist?

The empire strikes back

T&T being swallowed up by CBRE – I mean being part swallowed up – has been the talk of the industry since it became public more than two weeks ago. Given that news about M&E consultant Hoare Lea being taken over by another US firm, Tetra Tech, was announced on the same day, it has inevitably led to speculation that more firms could follow suit and be snapped up by overseas rivals. One of my hacks put this to a well-established UK name and wondered whether his firm would eventually succumb to the lure of the dollar. This is the reply that came back: “No. We are a Jedi force which operates on another dimension.” As denials go, it’s original.

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