What does 2025 have in store for the construction industry? 🤔 Director of Partnerships Rachel Bell shares her hopes for the future with Building Magazine. Read the article. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eqAE9DiC
Some great points here Rachel - and completely agree...how brilliant would it be to combine things so that green funding is the strongest channel for future building?
Jenni Montgomery
2mo
Oh totally agree on this one Rachel!! Single settlement funding would be a dream! So much more flexible and certainty would help so many more places really drive regeneration! Happy New Year!
Andrew Dobbs
2mo
There's some great observations in there that point to solutions and also highlight some of the major problems. As I was reading it I was reminded of the Stockdale Paradox. “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” Vice Admiral James Stockdale I'm keeping the faith, but equally the "brutal facts" are not getting easier to solve!
Andrew Chapman
2mo
Hi Rachel, we are already seeing capacity exceeding demand. i believe our procurement rules and particularly frameworks are the problem. I am involved with a £25m project that all of the framework contractors declined. I'm sure a number of the medium sized local contractors would have loved the opportunity A belated happy new year and look forward to sailing together again x
Tommy Thompson
2mo
I agree with your comment on fees, Rachel. It seems to be a race to the bottom at the moment which is no good to anyone.
Healthcare Team; Technical Director - Mott Macdonald
2moAll initiatives to better the life of people whilst supporting the need to not destroy the planet, have to be focused on how we achieve this, not through doing it as cheaply as possible but by demonstrating true value. Too often, initiatives are stymied by cost without understanding the overall benefit and value. Innovation 'costs', but we need to look beyond the initial capital cost and stop trying to use old techniques and technology as the measure. If we don't, then we stagnate. House building without taking due consideration of where it is undertaken, just to build more housing, is naive and ignores those already living there and the reason they live there. Trampling over planning rules simply to fulfil a quota is egotistical, ploughing ahead without due consideration of what can be accommodated, within existing infrastructure and local facilities. I have 'suffered' all of the above personally and witnessed the failure of this approach to the detriment of the people living in the area (both existing and new). Stop, think, consider, plan, design appropriately, invest.......but dont simply build because politically you have made a potentially unsustainable promise.