DID IT CHANGE US?

摘要

Twenty years ago next month former Tory MP Sir Michael Latham published Constructing the Team, produced after a year of consultation involving every corner of the construction industry. It is impossible to overstate the report's influence on the debate around how the construction industry works - or should work - in the two decades since its release. Although there had been previous attempts to reform the industry - with Banwell in 1964 the best known, perhaps - Latham's report was the first to diagnose the particular problems blighting construction in the early nineties, and came up with a startling prescription: to cut out the adversarial culture in construction and learn to collaborate - client, contractor, subcontractor, consultant - for the common good of the project.