Much of the construction transformation journey that we have been on for the last few years has been focused on identifying the basic building blocks of change and setting out a roadmap for how we can do what the industry has repeatedly failed to do in the past - embrace modernisation and improvement on a large scale and sustainable basis.

The construction sector deal gives us a good springboard for change and identifies the basic themes of core improvement across digital, manufacturing and asset performance while also highlighting the key enablers such as procurement and future skills.

The establishment of the Construction Innovation Hub (the Hub), the largest single recipient of government funding from the sector deal, as a catalyst for change, is a vital ingredient for making transformation a reality with a particular emphasis on the directly procuring central government departments. With the more recent addition of the construction playbook to the mix, things are starting to come together that bode well for the future.

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