Il Regno Unito “non investibile” impiega 30 anni per realizzare un progetto di nove mesi, afferma il miliardario
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/11/18/uninvestable-uk-takes-30-years-to-do-a-nine-month-project/
di Low_Map4314
Il Regno Unito “non investibile” impiega 30 anni per realizzare un progetto di nove mesi, afferma il miliardario
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/11/18/uninvestable-uk-takes-30-years-to-do-a-nine-month-project/
di Low_Map4314
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He’s not wrong. Practically everything we do across the uk trebles in price and takes way too much time to complete. He mentions dual carriage, look at the A9, gone from 3bn to 4bn and a completion of originally this month (end of 2025)…to end of 2035. We may be lucky and get it under 5bn by 2050 at this rate. They’re doing about 11 miles every 10 years…
Yep. The country that wanted to get out of the EU because it had become an administrative monster is now… a separate administrative monster.
There’s projects i get involved with and i can tell you there is a lot of doing full circles on nothing.
I watch those old archival footage on bbc / british pathé and think to myself the people in that era just got on with things. Whether it was digging the channel tunnel, building the m1/m25, extending the tube network or just mass building council houses.
Is it any wonder when all you have is this layer of Middle management at most companies that are just Uni- Graduates that have no actual experience in doing the tasks
No joke. Even roadworks that take two days in any other European country takes a week and a half in UK.
In fact there were roadworks done near my home recently. They were literally working on it from around 9AM till 12PM and would fuck off for the rest of a day.
Half the bloody neighbourhood closed off for two weeks to do maybe total of 100m of a street.
Meanwhile two streets away there is a patch of potholes which have been there for more than 10 years now. Yes, fucking 10 years and I’ve got photos to prove it.
Meanwhile the council is replacing old paving slabs outside my house that took 50 years to break, with teenie tiny white slabs that take 6 months to break (as evidenced by the opposite side of the road they did at the start of the year). And they look like shit as well, as a bonus.
It’s because we don’t have experts anymore.
We believe that you can just transfer project managers in fields they have no understanding of, and then we’re shocked that they didn’t have the experience or knowledge to foresee the issues they encounter.
Then we rinse and repeat, for every single field.
True. You can find a million reasons for this but I would say a big part of it is poor human resourcing. Let’s find people qualified by experience again. Doing an undergrad in business and economics with 5 years experience “project management” in Deloitte shouldn’t qualify you to project mange a dual carriageway upgrades
I mean if civil engineering actually paid a decent wage, then maybe we could have that conversation.
You get more for being a project manager than you do for being an engineer, so you are heavily incentivised to do that instead as you become more senior.
It’s almost as if worshipping privatisation and contracting out literally everything essential from binmen to bus services, cleaners to roadworks, IT services to security guards, has created an ecosystem where the public purse is incessantly and systemically plundered by companies like mosquitoes on a very tasty fat man.