{"id":29771,"date":"2021-04-20T17:55:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=29771"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:55:47","slug":"ihbcs-cpd-signpost-the-egan-report-23-years-on-part-1-how-has-construction-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=29771","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s CPD Signpost: The Egan Report 23 years on\u2026 Part 1: How has construction changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EganReport_200421.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29772\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EganReport_200421-211x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>More than two decades on from the release of the influential Egan Report, Nathan Doughty, CEO of Asite, reflects on the progress the construction industry has made with five key drivers of change.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration purposes only<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 look at the construction industry from a client\u2019s perspective\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 construction industry tended to focus more on the next employer\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>PBCtoday<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, an industry task force chaired by Sir John Egan, the founding chairman of Asite, published Rethinking Construction, also known as the Egan Report. Broadly speaking, it considered how the automation and efficiency measures used in other industries, such as automotive and aerospace, could be applied to the more fragmented UK construction sector.<\/p>\n<p>It also attempted to look at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/industry-insight\/planning-construction-insight\/reinvention-of-the-construction-industry\/84267\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">construction industry<\/a>\u00a0from a client\u2019s perspective and identified opportunities for improving the quality of its products and services, based on five key drivers of change: committed leadership; focus on the customer; integrated processes and teams; a quality-driven agenda; and commitment to people. So 23 years on from its release, what progress has the construction industry made?<\/p>\n<p>Well, let\u2019s start with committed leadership&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, this has happened in fits and starts&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h2>Customer-focused<\/h2>\n<p>As the Egan Report stated: \u201cIn the best companies, the customer drives everything.\u201d However, the task force found the construction industry tended to focus more on the next employer in the contractual chain rather than the end-user&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h2>Educated and engaged<\/h2>\n<p>One big positive of the past 20 years is clients are now more educated and engaged in the outcome of a project&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>There are highlights that have rightly been recognised&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first in a four-part blog series exploring the construction industry 23 years on from the Egan Report, for the remainder of the series please visit Asite Insights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/egan-report\/91733\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more background see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Egan_Report_Rethinking_Construction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DBW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than two decades on from the release of the influential Egan Report, Nathan Doughty, CEO of Asite, reflects on the progress the construction industry has made with five key drivers of change. image: for illustration purposes only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29773,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29771\/revisions\/29773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}