30th July 2010, 12:37 PM
beamo Wrote:Uo1
I agree with you that there may well be more small start-ups and one man bands - but this will not affect how the medium and large contractors react to the market in general as they will not be particularly concerned about what happens with regard to 'small' projects where they are unlikely to be competitive anyway....
Actually some medium sized companies (which is what I would consider I work for) regard small jobs as the bread and butter work, it's what keeps all the core project officers etc. busy and employed in between the big motorway schemes and pipelines when you can suddenly take on a hundred diggers - the profit margin's probably better on small jobs than big ones (not a manager so I'm just making a very informed guess on that), it's just that the cash-flow comes in smaller lumps, also means that the recession has had less impact since the small jobs have never really gone away and aren't waiting for the Government spending review....