CLC draws up construction recovery plan lasting two years

Details of the industry’s post-coronavirus rescue plan have been published today.

The Construction Leadership Council’s covid-19 task force has laid out a series of proposals aimed at safeguarding businesses which have already begun to shed jobs as a result of the crisis.

Called the Roadmap to Recovery, the plan has three phases which will be carried out over the next two years.

The first is the restart phase, which will run for the next three months, and aims to increase output, maximise employment and minimise disruption.

The second is the reset phase, which it wants to be implemented between the three and 12 month marks of recovery. Under this phase, the industry will be asked to increase demand, up productivity and strengthen the supply chain.

The final phase, called reinvent, will run for the second year of the recovery and will look at delivering better value and improving collaboration and partnership.

The CLC has laid out detailed plans (attached below) for each stage of all three phases with individual tasks allocated to different groups, organisations and parts of the sector, including the business department, private sector clients and the CITB.

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It has also laid out a timeline for its next steps saying its next major task will be establishing four working groups for infrastructure, housing, repair, maintenance and innovation (RMI) and local, social and commercial infrastructure and construction, which will be up and running by the middle of this month.

The leads for the four working groups are the Infrastructure Client Group for infrastructure, the Home Builders Federation for housing, the Federation of Master Builders for RMI and the Association for Consultancy and Engineering for social and commercial infrastructure and construction.

The CLC structure and operations will be revised to oversee the implementation of the recovery plan by 1 July, while the plan itself will be reviewed and adapted by 1 September to allow the industry to move into its second phase.

The task force was established to provide focus on industry efforts to combat the impact of coronavirus, including developing Site Operating Procedures and addressing shortages of product availability.