A year ago, the CLC was spurred into action as the pandemic caused confusion and closures across the sector. Ian Weinfass speaks to co-chair Andy Mitchell about its initial response and how the industry has fared in the past year When Construction Leadership Council (CLC) co-chair Andy Mitchell reflects on the early days of lockdown and the need to draw up new procedures for sites to follow during the COVID-19 crisis, it is clear that the responsibility to get things right weighed heavy. “We were doing a lot of soul searching, saying: ‘Is this the right thing to say?’; ‘Why do we know anything more about social distancing, or the rights and wrongs of masks, than anyone else?’”