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Construction needs a million extra hands, but no amount of workers from Poland or from apprenticeship programmes are going to fill the gap. Now, technology-driven reform that makes construction less labour-intensive is being proposed – but is it the game changer the industry needs?
Construction Leadership Council will oversee report by consultant Mark Farmer on how to reform industry
Despite decades of technical advances and a revolution in technology, the benefits have not flowed through to improved productivity, saysΒ Paul Ruddick, chairman and founder of Reds10
To scale up, it needed outside investment and there was only one place it was coming from, writes Dave Rogers
The sector needs to educate its construction partners to create a sustainable supply chain that helps achieve net zero targets and manages the transition of UK suppliers to low carbon UK steel production, says Jonathan Davis, preconstruction technical director atΒ William Hare
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