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September is an important month for me. It is the month in which I was born, the month in which I married and this year September is the month in which I begin my 50th year in Construction. In some ways it is easy and glib to say I don’t know where the years have …
Continue reading 50 Years – Has it all been worth it? – By Kathryn Ladley
Joanna Farnsworth This week I feel that I have made a difference, it is difficult to measure but as a QS I really want to establish a way of doing so. I felt guilty about having spent so much of my time this week not sat behind the screen producing spreadsheets or reading contracts but out on …
At the beginning of the year we published a brave piece written by a fellow Surveyor about the bullying that they had experienced in the workplace. This was an important post that highlighted unacceptable behaviors, the effects of those behaviors and how we can be stronger together. At the time we knew that this example …
This week we have been consumed by how the press and people are responding to not only Greta Thunberg's powerful speech at the UN but the debacle in the UK Parliament. Her powerful speech and the resulting press showing photos of her passionate delivery created a equally powerful but disturbing backlash from a number of …
How to identify and avoid Burning-out How many times have you got to the weekend, a holiday or Christmas only to come down with a sickness or a cold / flu? Sometimes we can keep going all week only to get to the weekend and be too exhausted to enjoy ourselves? How many times have …