Industry transformation is complex and needs to be treated as such

Trudi Sully Sept 23

MMC has taken a kicking since the House of Lords’ committee report, but the bigger picture is far more nuanced with plenty of examples of positive innovation, writes Trudi Sully

Publication of the long-awaited National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline by the Treasury and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) at the start of February landed with something of a damp squib. It failed to deliver the much anticipated and desired clarity and the hoped for certainty about future workloads was somewhat lacking too.

However, I can’t help but feel that, as an industry, we were placing too much expectation on the document to answer the many challenges we are facing currently. With the pending general election, the long-term certainty about projects and infrastructure investment was always going to be shaky.

Nonetheless, I do wonder whether we have a level of expectation around the ease of delivering industry transformation that is unrealistic. Just in the last few years there has been significant policy and guidance developed to enable the delivery of transformational change.

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