Opinion

Martyn Cooper of Ineos Fluor gives an HFC manufacturer’s viewpoint

In the current environment, making construction businesses more profitable through effective investment is more important than ever.

When times are tough, the difference between order takers and real sales people comes home to roost, says Bob Cowlard

In such troubled times, it’s very easy to take a negative view about business but it’s important to focus on the positives when presenting your company to your customers.

With the Olympics being the just about only certain construction work on the horizon we’ll all be seeing a lot more of the Olympic logo, a logo which created a large amount of uninformed comment when it was launched. By Rick Osman

Construction News asks industry chief Don Ward of Constructing Excellence to do a psychometric test

While the recession storm rages, employers now more that ever need to appear calm.

As massive job losses hit construction, it’s no surprise that old arguments have resurfaced about foreign workers operating in Britain.

So while some of you were off in Cannes, moving and shaking at MIPIM and sipping champagne on yachts, the rest of us were staggering about on the deck of the more unwieldy tanker that is the construction industry.

It may be OK for the banks, and even the Chancellor, to suggest that things will get better when the world economy improves, but this approach probably won’t help in management meetings.