Our goal is to bring about maximum benefit for the wider industry and society.

A game-changing shift is taking place in the construction industry.The extraordinary difficulty of COVID-19 has created new urgency in our drive to transform construction, accelerating both the pace of change within the sector and our appetite for it..

The UK government’s Build Back Better initiative highlights a move away from our long-held and narrow focus on efficiency.Instead, we're beginning to turn towards much broader value outcomes: increased safety, net-zero carbon emissions, improved build quality, social value and more.We want to create a better future for our built environment, one that benefits both people and the planet.

However, to do this we’ll need to transform not only our approach, embracing new, MMC methodologies such as Design for Value and Platform construction, but also the way we work together across the public and private sector.Collaboration will be key to success, as we begin our journey reshaping construction into an industry fit for the future..

The rise of the Construction Innovation Hub.

My journey in government began in 2010.Standard components and digital tools - the construction Platforms ‘ecosystem’.

The underpinnings of a potential marketplace are set out in the Playbook, which states that Government:.will look to procure construction projects based on product platforms comprising of standardised and interoperable components and assemblies, the requirements for which will be part of a digital component catalogue..

Contracting authorities should collaborate to find […] ways in which cross-sector platform solutions can be applied […] that enable interoperability of components across different sectors.. Future procurements and frameworks should support this with the development of a market and supply chain that can develop and deliver designs based on these platform approaches, manufacture and supply components, and innovate to improve and develop.these over time.