It is 30 years this month since Sir Michael Latham’s final report of his review of procurement and contractual arrangements in the UK construction industry, Constructing the Team.

In his foreword, Latham explained that the report contained recommendations to tackle the problems behind the industry’s longstanding discontent at how it functioned and what it achieved. Pointedly, the title of his interim report was Trust and Money. He described Constructing the Team as the “personal report of an independent but friendly observer”, emerging from the profound disagreement of the voices he had heard during the consultation process.

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