+1 for most of the above. One major masterplanning scheme that was pretty much going to support my office for the next year looks like it isn’t going to happen, housebuilding will probably slow down, and numerous other regeneration schemes now looking shaky.
As noted above, the past year or so has seen pretty solid workloads across the industry, demand for engineers, wage increases and the general feeling that we were now out of it. To say that the mood in my company is now black would be an understatement. Those that worked through the last recession are thinking ‘not again, not so soon,’ while the younger folk are generally just pee’d off at the whole thing.