Background Reading

To ensure that the review can reflect the current context of the wider industry as well as a joined-up approach within Constructing Excellence, a number of key reports and studies will also inform the review.

A number of inputs were commissioned in 2008 to inform the review including the following:

• A survey of the views of CE members and the wider industry looking at the past, present and future seeking views on the drivers for change, progress achieved, the benefits or disbenefits, what has not been achieved and what needs to be achieved in the next ten years:

  Headline Results

• A report from g4c (the "early career" group of Constructing Excellence) on the characteristics of the sector they would like to inherit in the future:

  Full Report

  Executive Summary

Other relevant industry documents include the following:

Constructing Excellence

• "Industry Performance Report 2008"
• "Be Valuable" 2004

BERR

• "Innovation in Construction Services" - Aug 2008 (follow-up to NESTA)
• "Construction Matters" - Report of the BERR select committee, July 2008.
• "Strategy for Sustainable Construction " - June 2008

Strategic Forum

• "Construction Commitments" - June 2008
• "Construction Targets" - June 2008
• "Profiting from integration" - Nov 2007

Academia

• "Building a Client-Orientated, Knowledge-Based, Value-Driven Industry" - National Platform, 2008
• "ICT and Automation" - National Platform, 2007
• "The Futures of Construction" - Loughborough University, 2007

Miscellaneous

• "I'd Give Construction About Four Out of Ten" - Speech by Sir John Egan at a CE reception at the House of Lords, May 2008.