Many aspects of running a consultant in today's building industry seem more akin to those faced when running a contractor. The need to tender the lowest price to win work is just one of many examples that illustrate the fundamental change that has taken place, encouraged perhaps by the Thatcherite market approach that nobody in business is to be trusted. Some would argue that such an approach is a good thing, but I suspect that many structural engineering designers - and others, I'm sure - still struggle with that change, and maybe it is right that we do.
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