Hasta La Ideas

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pMPs and senior construction industry experts Monday night attended a dinner hosted by the Associate Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group and engineering consultancy Buro Happold. The purpose? To thrash out a tricky question: How to make good design a central concern to the construction industry./p

pThe assembled worthies, seated around a very long table at the Institute for Civil Engineers in London and overlooked by portraits of engineering ancestors, were addressed by the Shadow Minister for Construction Mark Prisk(pictured above) and the Government’s Chief Construction Advisor, before attacking the debate themselves over dessert and coffee. /p

pThe background: With some worthy and notable exceptions, the UK construction industry is accused of being resistant to change, motivated by cost, and adversarial in attitude. This is not only inconvenient, it is a major problem for a country with the massive challenge of meeting (legally binding) sustainability targets, in the midst of a recession, in the face of growing global competition. We are a small island, sinking in the wake of larger powers. /p

pThe APDIG assembled this group of concerned individuals with a view and leverage on the issue to try and identify a solution. Or, perhaps more realistically, a path towards a solution./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/business/better_design_in_construction_policy_dinner_and_debate_16065.asp”(more…)/a
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