This month’s construction industry gossip: The bigger picture

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2026-02-13T07:00:00

The latest chatter around the industry

Bacon and eggs

With developers umming and ahhing over what schemes to press go on, I’m reminded of the advice the late Irvine Sellar would sometimes dish out to the project. He wanted to know whether someone was involved or committed. He used a metaphor involving English breakfast to get his point across. The hen, he would say, was involved but the pig was committed. A question developers might be asking themselves from now on: are they hen or pig?

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