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Covid won’t be as bad as 2008 financial crash, Aukett chief predicts

By 2020-06-25T06:00:00

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The chief executive of listed architect Aukett Swanke has said the impact of the covid-19 pandemic will not be as bad as the financial crash more than a decade ago.

Nicholas Thompson has been in charge of the country’s only listed architect for 15 years and said: “The financial crash was pretty awful immediately. Work stopped straightaway. Here, it’s a temporary suspension of weeks, a maximum of months.”

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