Next construction strategy will be same as last one, warns previous author

By Tom Lowe2020-01-16T06:00:00

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Industry saying same things 1990s Latham and Egan reports recommended, IPA chief adds

The government’s next construction strategy is likely to be mostly the same as the last one, a senior government advisor has warned, because the industry is too slow at making change.

David Hancock, who wrote the government’s last construction strategy for then prime minister David Cameron, is the construction director of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), the government’s chief advisory body for infrastructure.

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