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The Building the Future Think Tank

The Building the Future Commission will continue into 2024. Having embarked on this enormously ambitious project – covering eight very broad areas - we realise the current challenges facing construction as a sector and the wider built environment need ongoing research.

This is why we are setting up our own editorial research hub, known as The Building the Future Think Tank, which will be dedicated to producing more in-depth research and reports on behalf of the industry.

For now we plan to focus the think tank’s programme for 2024 on five key areas, though we are taking soundings from the industry and the list could expand to cover more topics. The themes identified so far are: AI and digital construction, implementing net zero, workplace and productivity, building safety, and people and skills.

2024 conference

  • ‘Certainty of pipeline’ one of the keys to productivity improvements, conference told

  • Industry leaders criticise lack of resource and competence at Building Safety Regulator

  • ‘Embrace AI technologies,’ Scape boss urges construction

  • Days of demolish and rebuild ‘long gone’, Bam chief tells conference

  • Industry needs to be more vocal in supporting Grenfell findings, Wates boss says, and warns contracting’s ‘bizarre’ margins not sustainable

2024 regional talks

  • Maximising procurement as an enabler for construction in the North-west of England

  • Leading from the front: Driving sustainability through the retrofit agenda in the North-east of England

  • Addressing construction productivity challenges in the East of England

Upcoming in the Building the Future Think Tank

26 September: Building the Future Think Tank Midlands roundtable (invite only)

23 October: Building the Future Think Tank Wales roundtable (invite only)

With thanks to our headline supporters:




With thanks to our regional supporters: