Delivering MMC at government scale will transform construction

By Jaimie Johnston2021-12-29T06:04:00

Jaimie Johnston from Bryden Wood in front of a yellow wall

Industry will have no choice but to modernise with large-scale programmes, writes Jaimie Johnston

The way our sector has developed over several decades has created many challenges to integration and innovation. While an industry such as manufacturing is relatively holistic and integrated, construction has atomised into many areas of deep but narrow specialist expertise.

Construction remains focused on sectors and exploiting the differences between them, rather than looking for commonality and efficiency.

This has multiplied the number of people and roles engaged in every project team. Gaps between specialisms create risk and potential points of failure, while the number of individual touchpoints gives rise to extraordinary complexity.

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