There are some clients out there who will take a unilateral decision to make fee cuts of up to 60% and my message to them is get real. The supply chain is not a charitable business. A reasonable supply chain should take a sensible decision and avoid working with such clients. If you compromise today, then you have to do it tomorrow and the day after, and after a while the bubble will burst.rnIn the long term I think the region will stop thinking in states and become more of a true nation. Then investment will flow. But it will be a minimum of six months, possibly a year, before we see change in Dubai. My advice for those already on the ground is to "rightsize" your business and get closer to the client. For those looking to go abroad, there is still a market -particularly in low-carbon design. In Abu Dhabi, they're building a new city with the lowest carbon footprint in the world.
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