The Construction Leadership Council’s (CLC’s) plans for a post-covid-19 revival of the UK construction sector were published on 1 June and set out a three-phase recovery over two years, the Roadmap to Recovery. The CLC has acknowledged that the sector was not in great shape going into the covid-19 crisis, with many of Mark Farmer’s targets in his 2016 report, Modernise or Die, still work in progress, including digital transformation and widespread use of modern methods of construction.

The Roadmap aims to create a more capable, productive and profitable construction sector that delivers better value to clients and better-performing infrastructure and buildings, and which competes successfully in a global market. Failure to act risks the construction industry lapsing into a longer-term recession that will erode capability and skills.

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