Construction industry gossip: Make good choices

By Hansom2018-12-07T06:00:00

A Yorkshireman questions why procurement can’t be like buying a loaf of bread and the builders of the tallest tower want their workers to have the healthiest diet

Use your loaf

Yorkshire folk are known for their plain speaking, and Sheffield-born Mark Robinson – chief exec of procurement specialist Scape – is rather baffled by all the time spent on working out procurement routes that mire the industry in mountains of red tape. “Procurement shouldn’t be complicated,” he told delegates at Building Live last week. “It’s just buying – like a loaf of bread.”

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