Construction won’t fix productivity just by trying harder. It will fix it by building differently

By Mark Reynolds2026-06-04T06:00:00

Industrialised construction through standardised systems and platform solutions can double productivity but only if the industry adopts fairer commercial models, says Mark Reynolds

Construction has never lacked ambition. What it lacks is great and improved productivity. You see it in programmes that drift, costs that lurch, and teams forced to re-solve the same problems on every job as if the last 35 years taught us nothing.

In my experience, there are very few levers that genuinely shift that equation. Industrialisation is one of them, but not as a label for “more modules made off site”.

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