Not at any price

History often repeats itself: conquistadors are invading once again, this time convinced of an Eldorado awaiting them in Poland. And construction companies based in Poland are jousting with global competitors taking their first steps into the country. who will be left standing when the dust settles? Ewa Andrzejewska Jan Mikołuszko, the board president of Unibep, a Bielsk Podlaski-based company, at first seemed to be expressing traditional Polish pessimism and the desire to complain when he remarked: “You might think this paradoxical, but the greatest misfortune for our industry would be the rapid re-emergence of a boom situation. Should the market pick up momentum, the prices of building materials and contracts etc. will soar and we shall then see which companies are able to painlessly perform the contracts they have with greatly increased prices.” However, are he and his competitors in the constr