BUILDING
Units of craftsmen labouring in small teams have a long history in the area, but the new symbol of change and seeming prosperity lies in heavily staffed high rise blocks and far reaching towers. Building skills are streamlined in specialisation and in huge construction projects. Tasks and fashioning once begun and ended on small sites. Then they were replaced by pre-construction far away with ponderous transport movements about each huge newly transforming site. Time pressures exact their penalties for falling behind tight and profit-centred schedules. Under such pressures stress on structure and on persons mount. Ever greater social sensitivities are needed to invest always in people as well as in glorious and often awe-inspiring prospects of change.
