The industry needs Lendlease to stick around because Mace and Multiplex can’t build everything

By Dave Rogers2024-12-20T06:00:00

It is not good for anyone that some of the sector’s most high-profile projects are bid by just two firms, writes Dave Rogers

Earlier this week, I sat on top of the No 63 bus, which runs all the way down London’s Farringdon Road from the Mount Pleasant sorting office to Blackfriars station.

There were a few sites that t trundled past. One – the redevelopment of Smithfield market into the new home of the Museum of London – was being carried out by Sir Robert McAlpine. All the others, of which there were four, were being carried out by Mace and Multiplex.

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