Construction needs solutions – and it needs them now

By James Wates2023-01-06T07:00:00

The Building the Future Commission is an overdue opportunity to effect real change, says James Wates

The start of a new year is always a good time for reflection as well as predictions, and this month I am looking back quite a few years.

In 2006, I gave the JCT Povey Lecture entitled “Joining up the dots: How the construction industry should punch its weight”. In that speech, I reflected upon numerous challenges that were facing the sector.

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