How other countries are reopening construction

By Richard Steer2020-05-14T05:00:00

Others around the world have come out of lockdown ahead of the UK, Gleeds chair Richard Steer looks at what we can learn about returning to work

A new phraseology has dominated all our lives for the last two months and it has evolved as the pandemic has swept through our country. We have gone from “following the science” to “flattening the curve”, through to “tracking the R number” and now we are into the “new normal”.

If we viewed the banking collapse of 2008 as a nightmare, in economic terms alone the coronavirus of 2020 is the apocalypse. It is also an ever-changing scene without precedent. It is also an ever-changing scene without precedent. So one of the advantages of being part of a global organisation is that one can gauge the response of colleagues around the world to the situation as it evolves.

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