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It's working out how to get it done that becomes hard.. At present, our focus is on transforming construction into a more future-facing sector.We need to ask important questions about how to make it more inclusive and representative of the society it serves.. To begin, it’s essential to recognise that we can’t achieve our goals working in isolation.

Problems like carbon emissions, poor build quality, labour shortages and the housing crisis - they can all be improved if we collectively refocus our energies and unify our processes.The creation of the Construction Innovation Hub is a response to this need.The Hub aims to overcome the industry’s current fragmentation and adopt a new, data-driven, industrialised construction approach.

The goal is to harmonise, digitalise and rationalise demand across industry projects and programmes.By creating standardised products and components, driven by Design for Value principles and Platform construction methodologies, we can harness the benefits of manufacturing and DfMA for the good of the industry and wider society..

The role of the Transforming Construction Challenge.

The Construction Innovation Hub is funded through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Construction Sector Deal as part of the Transforming Construction Challenge.It raises a whole range of issues that would need resolving regarding insurances, warranties, IP, etc.

And there is the big question of who would own the marketplace?Ideally, this would be a neutral broker, such as Government.

And there is even a partial precedent here in the UK in the form of G-Cloud, the UK Government’s Digital Marketplace for cloud technology and specialist digital services..Creating a digital marketplace for construction procurement would have benefits that far outweigh the challenges.