Is this a misprint?
I have just been reading an article entitled “Demolition; a most modern industry“. I will leave you to judge for yourself the truth in that statement; leave you to compare and contrast the “everything in the garden is rosy” leitmotif of this article against our own leader article yesterday; and leave you to comment upon the editorial artistry with which the article has been compiled.
But the part that piqued my personal interest was tucked away in the seventh paragraph and it states: “The NFDC has 170 corporate members who undertake approximately 95% of the demolition work carried out in the UK today.” 95 percent?
To the very best of my knowledge, there is NO central register documenting the demolition work carried out and the contract value for each and every contract. The NFDC may well be able to keep tabs on its own members, but what of the other three quarters of the industry.
At last count, there were between 550 and 600 demolition companies working in the UK. And let us be really generous a guesstimate that the UK demolition industry is worth, say, half a billion pounds per year (it isn’t), so NFDC members are racking up a combined £475 million (they’re not) or an average of £2.79 million per company (they’re not). That means there are between 380 and 430 non-member companies out there all fighting over the remaining £25 million.
That is outsiders such as industry cruiser-weights like Sloane Demolition, TDS and General Demolition and as many as 427 others splitting £25 million.
Really?
