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“Clients to blame for lack of sustainability in construction” cries industry
Added: (Wed Mar 08 2006)
Sustainability factors highly in the future of housing construction, but clients are not embracing this vital issue sufficiently, new research claims.
The news is a result of a CIOB research session with a group of specialist practitioners analysing four key corners of the construction industry. The session, led by long-standing construction authority Professor Michael Benfield, formed the CIOB Wiltshire Centre annual event.
“The audience have been kicked into action. The construction industry needs to get wiser and plan for the long-term – not simply for the next five years, but we need to predict and conform to Building Regulation changes for the next 50 years – we’re letting our future generations down if we don’t” event organiser and Chartered Surveyor Paul Cook commented.
The audience was mostly made up of members of the CIOB; a mixture
of contractors, housebuilders, building surveyors and project managers, as well as architects, engineers and local authority building control officers.
Professor Benfield commented: "I find it encouraging that so many committed people in the profession are coming together to develop and highlight future trends in the building industry. The CIOB and Benfield ATT are committed to working with industry to achieve real and lasting improvements in design, procurement and on sites. Today's findings demonstrate that future-looking professionals want to embrace this area further and I hope that through continued partnership between CIOB and the design profession best practice will become standard practice."