Today’s ‘Modernise or die’ report aims to kick-start reform with this 10-point action plan

Mark Farmer’s report, published today and running to 80 pages, is damning of the state of the construction industry and recommends wide-ranging reforms to make it more efficient and to recruit more people to the workforce.

Here’s a brief run-down of his key recommendations:

  1. Reform Construction Leadership Council around tripartite government, industry and client covenant in order to drive recommendations
  2. Reform CITB to be more efficient, fund innovation, and include related sectors
  3. Government, industry and clients to work together to reform industry business models around value for building end users
  4. Institute innovation programme with residential focus
  5. CITB to align grant funding to a reformed industry
  6. CITB or purpose made vehicle to specifically work on improving public image of construction
  7. Government to re-engineer further education sector, planning and tax/employment policies to produce right skills
  8. Government to use existing funding streams and policy to stimulate pre-manufacture
  9. Government to publish a pipeline of housing developments
  10. Government to impose client levy if above measures shown not to be working.

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