Will we ever change?

摘要

'We consider that the most urgent problem which confronts the industry is the necessity of thinking and acting as a whole. It has come to regard itself as a series of different parts, roughly consisting of specialist advisers, contractors and suppliers and operatives of various crafts and skills ... these attitudes must change." The above is an extract from the 1964 Banwell Report, The Placing and Management of Contracts for Building and Civil Engineering Work. Now read this extract from another report: "The construction industry is often characterised as an example of 'market failure'. This usually refers to its highly fragmented structure (both vertically and horizontally), introverted nature and unusually high levels of self employment."