Construction industry gossip: Off the rails

By Hansom2019-02-22T06:00:00

While Crossrail apparently files its accounts by halves, HS2 veers between flooding stakeholder meetings with its staff and charging them to attend at all

Wheels of fire

One of my hacks tells me the boss of Lendlease’s development arm in the UK has just returned from a few days’ winter cycling in the Tenerife sunshine. Descending the island’s volcano, the 3,700m Mount Teide, Jonathan Emery touched speeds of 40mph, which he admits made him a little anxious. Me too, though not as anxious as I might have been: German rider Marcus Burghardt made headlines in the 2016 Tour de France when he clocked 81.2mph going downhill in the Pyrenees. Something for next month’s Mipim charity riders to emulate?

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