21st March 2014, 06:24 PM
P Prentice Wrote:as a profession we are as ready as we will ever be. i cant think of anything better to galvanise us, engender hope as well as skills and with the added bonus that wages will surely riseI am not so sure that HS2 will create many new jobs in archaeology. What it is more likely is that it will concentrate work for a while and generate a lot of short term contracts. Also not sure how wages will rise. That didn't happen with HS1 and it didn't happen with Crossrail...why would it happen with HS2? Tenderer's will undercut each other, much as they do on other projects.
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