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Andy Michell is chief executive of Tideway and co-chair of the Construction Leadership Council Most of us in construction will have heard that about 38
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 elim...
2021-04-20T05:00:00+01:00 We have the technology to reduce carbon emissions from our homes but take-up is slow - Sam Stacey looks the quality of life benefits and the subsidy options For the most part, houses built before the turn of the 20th century did not have bathrooms. Ablutions required a cold and dark trip to an outhouse, often perched over a pit in the ground. Yet within a few decades, the modern bathroom evolved from a novelty into an almost-universal residential fixture. Thomas Crapper’s valve-and-siphon design was patented in 1891, and found its way into British homes all over ...
By Sam Stacey 2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 We are on a journey that will result in a sector far better than the world can currently imagine, says Sam Stacey Buckminster Fuller, one of the great architectural visionaries of the 20th century, said “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” The Transforming Construction programme was established to build a new model for the construction industry and support the sector on its transformative journey. We are two and a half years into that journey ...