Construction industry gossip: Tall storeys

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2025-03-14T08:00:00

The latest chatter around the industry

Sunset clause

Mark Anderson, who appears elsewhere in these pages, was remembering one of the first jobs he was involved in with the consultant he had set up, MGAC, in Washington back in the mid 1990s. He was in Great Falls, Montana, and apparently there’s not much there. He was a bit peckish, asked the hotel where he could eat and was told to take the road out of town. Which road? “There’s only one,” came the reply. He took it, saw a white light in the distance, assumed it was the restaurant he was told about and, relieved, pulled in. Alas, it was just after 7pm so the venue was shut. Not like being back east, I suppose.

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