By Sam Stacey 2021-06-28T05:00:00+01:00 Increasing efficiency and reducing waste are essential tasks if construction is to modernise successfully rather than die, Sam Stacey says I am often asked whether established construction firms face the threat of disruptive innovation - and whether new entrants to the construction market will swoop in and hoover up the profit? Until recently, complexity and disorder in the construction system formed a significant barrier. In 2018, however, the sector deal for construction set out to sweep away that disorder, paving the way for efficiency and elimination of waste. Now, three years down the line, the industry is starting to look very different. The disruptors are honing their business plans, and the last chance to “modernise or die”, as Mark Farmer has put it, has finally arrived.