Project Speed's success relies on creating a culture of trust

Stuart Maister

Efforts to accelerate projects must start with culture not process, writes Stuart Maister

If covid has accelerated history then in some aspects of the construction sector that may be a good thing.

In 1994 Sir Michael Latham published the seminal report into the UK construction industry, Constructing the Team. Twenty-five years later his call for collaboration not confrontation and a healthier client/contractor relationship with ‘better rewards for a great industry’ still sound like a new idea. Even before covid, contractor margins in the UK were on average 2% or less.

 

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