Materials: How can clients navigate a global power shift?

By Neil Bullen 2021-08-13T05:00:00

Shortages around the world mean it is more important than ever to think through supply chain strategies, says T&T’s Neil Bullen

A lack of available materials has undoubtedly recast the dynamic within construction supply chains. In construction markets around the world we are seeing a shift in power from client to supplier that few of us have experienced before.

In this new world order, materials are no longer commodity products readily available on-demand. There are fewer suppliers and manufacturing facilities in many countries than before the pandemic, prices are volatile, demand is high and delivery is not always guaranteed.

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