Letters & comment

摘要

Procurement doesn't need radical change Colin Harding's proposal in Building magazine ("The new world order?", 26 February, page 29), proposing a radical change to procurement of buildings in much the same way that the manufacturing industry works with high quality design teams, working alongside manufacturing/ installation contractors in a single organisation, brings to the foreground many of the challenges we face in a fragmented construction industry and I am sure will raise heated debate. While the logic is sound and it has always confused me why this has not been the case, in order for the proposals to be realised as intended they would rely on our Tier 1 contractors building up significant in-house design resource.