It is an understatement to say that most of us are looking forward to getting back to a real-life working office in the future. The virtual world has many benefits but face to face interaction with or without mask, trumps back to back teleconferencing every time in my book. Whilst much has been written about the expensive £35bn fiasco that was Test and Trace, the advent of the vaccine has been a real game changer and in my business we are already planning for a summer ‘back to work’ programme.

I say ‘back to work’ but, while many sectors came to a halt when the pandemic struck, for those of us in the built environment work has continued throughout on a worldwide basis, although it has been far from business as usual I will admit. It’s true that social distancing and shut-downs have had an impact but by and large we have still been engaging with clients to manage the construction, refurbishment and in some cases re-purposing of everything from hotels to hospitals during the pandemic.

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