There was a certain amount of finance available six months ago, less two months ago, and probably even less last week. John Armitt, Olympic Delivery Authority chairman, on how the £1.2bn Olympic Village is being credit crunched.

Ethically, we wouldn’t get involved in projects like this. We have a fairly strict constitution set up by Richard Rogers. Andrew Morris, commercial director at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, explains why the practice won’t touch the new nuclear build programme.

As building surveyors, we spend a lot of time inspecting buildings, so we’ve got plenty of buildings to throw ourselves off! Roger Watts, director of Trident Consulting, giving his off-the-cuff answers a question on coping with the credit crunch.

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