Construction cannot ‘tweak broken model’ to solve productivity puzzle, says MMC boss

By Daniel Gayne2023-09-27T16:09:00

Merit’s Tony Wells tells conference industry needs radical rethink

The construction industry has more than a century of progress to catch up on and should not be “afraid of disruption”, according to the boss of an offsite manufacturing firm.

Tony Wells, chief executive of Merit, invoked economist Paul Krugman in identifying productivity as the key challenge facing the sector.

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