By James Wates2021-03-05T06:00:00+00:00 This 80-page document should help unite clients and industry in a common goal, says James Wates First we had the Outsourcing Playbook (versions one and two), and now we have the Construction Playbook, which the Cabinet Office released towards the end of 2020. It’s an interesting twist on the American term playbook, which usually refers to a manual of tactics from which American football teams choose during the course of a game. Those teams guard their playbooks with their lives, lest the opposition figure out what’s coming at them. It’s reassuring therefore that the government’s new Construction Playbook is a good deal more transparent and collaborative than the American football original. In this case, the central government and public sector clients have included all of us in the construction sector in their team. By understanding what’s in the playbook, we can all tackle our work knowing what others are doing and avoiding (to mix football metaphors) scoring own goals.