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Keep up to dateRecession rips away £17bn of orders over two years
The recession has ripped away from construction roughly £17 billion in annual new orders, despite billions of pounds of more public sector sponsored work.
That’s the clear message to me from the annual tot up of the new orders won by contractors released today.
This article continues at Brian Green's Brickonomics blog
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