You know the way these things happen. There you are at an industry dinner, chatting amiably to your neighbours, randomly talking about things that interest you, the wine flows, and it is only the next morning you realise you’ve signed up for something serious. 

In this particular case, it was four days on a racing yacht on the Solent, training for and then taking part in the construction industry’s Little Britain race. Perhaps it’s only me this happens to, because I tend to just say yes. And I do like sailing. Or maybe it’s just because it is difficult not to say yes to Suzannah Nichol, Build UK’s passionate and tenacious chief executive. 

We need a co-ordinated approach to attracting young people across the whole industry, drawing on technology to help implement it

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