I told you last week about part one of Sir Michael Latham's Construction Act review. That bit was about tinkering with the payment rules. This week, as promised, I will tell you about part two - tinkering with adjudication. The tinkerers on Sir Michael's think-tank represent industry's thinkers. And since they represented construction, guess what happened while debating adjudication? Blow me down, they had a dispute! One of the group, the Construction Confederation, argued that its remit was only to report on issues which had achieved universal agreement. That would have been a skinny report. So the group invented a system where they "beg to differ". They installed a traffic light in the corner of the meeting room. It flashes green when the group is unanimous; amber when there is some support and some not; red when only one group member gave the thumbs-up. The report did not include issues in the red category. What a bunch of spoilsports. Rumour has it that one red devil was urging Latham to check adjudicators' heads once a month. Cheek!
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