Construction’s great strength is its ability to adapt, but it needs better strategic direction from government to deliver on policy promises, writes Brian Green, author of an upcoming CIOB report.
Yet, while construction as an industry and producer of the built environment craves and thrives on stability and a long-term strategic direction, it is trapped in a political, institutional and economic framework that is not just short term in outlook, but fickle, volatile and constantly in conflict.
Looking back through an ever-expanding library of reports into construction, the list of intractable problems ranges from lack of innovation and poor productivity to low quality, poor value and high levels of conflict… the list goes on. The emphases may vary, report to report, but the catalogue of failings is familiar, even today.
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