Thirty-one weeks: that’s how long we have left in the EU. After that, the UK will be on its own, for better or worse. Just imagine if your two-year project had just 31 weeks to go – you would have a plan, right? You’d have skilled people in place to get the job done, and everyone would be familiar with the design, the costings, the key milestones. All the stakeholders would feed into the project, information would be shared, contingencies be discussed. 

The construction industry gets a fair bit of bashing for missed deadlines, but in reality many projects are textbook examples of marshalling resources to deliver hugely complex designs to very tight timeframes. Day in, day out, construction professionals are ruled by deadlines. And a well-run project isn’t just about deadlines: there also needs to be a vision for the team – an idea of where it’s all going and how you’re going to get there.

Back to Brexit, and as things stand – more than two years after the Leave vote – we still have no idea what it actually means for any sector of the economy, least of all construction. 

“Talk of transition periods has given way to taking odds on the likelihood of a no-deal Brexit – it’s 60:40, according to trade secretary Liam Fox”

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