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Balfour Beatty's regional civils MD says ECI is how you take risk out of infrastructure schemes. She is right. But the process only works if the right people are in the room on both sides, and nobody puts them on the risk register.

A fortnight of construction headlines, read the way a recruiter reads them, and an honest account of why I am publishing that reading for free instead of keeping it in the drawer.

Durkan Holdings has walked away from contracting entirely after fifty years, blaming regulatory risk rather than a lack of work. What that decision means for where the industry's compliance-savvy senior talent goes next, and what it should tell you about the risk you're paid to carry.

Why retaining older workers, and passing on what they know, has become one of the most pressing questions in UK construction and infrastructure.

Five hospital schemes, five main contractors, one region. The Norwich supplier day will answer which firms can deliver the work. It cannot answer the harder question: which people will lead it.

The live count of open director and head-of level roles across UK contractors and programmes, and what it says about where the market is moving.

Whether or not he reaches Number 10, the shift his rise represents has real consequences for how, where and what we build.

There has rarely been more money in UK construction, and rarely less capacity to deliver it. A market letter on the people problem holding the sector back.

Alan Milburn called them an anxious generation this week. Not a soft one. Not snowflakes. Anxious. And the difference between those two words is the whole argument.