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Industry Report: Building for the Future

The challenges facing all industries are ever-changing, and now is the opportune moment to explore and understand the construction industry’s current state. What are the issues keeping the industry awake at night, and how is the industry planning for the future? These are the questions that 4PS set out to answer in an extensive survey of senior industry decision-makers to generate the insights provided here in this report, Building for the Future.

Building for the Future: Insights from senior industry leaders

As the Covid pandemic and Brexit shock start to recede, the war in Ukraine, the associated fuel crisis, and a looming recession are all emerging for the industry to confront now. Having shown resilience to manage and adapt to previous challenges, the construction industry must now display similar adaptability to future-proof itself against these (and other unforeseen) headwinds.

From a similar forward-facing perspective, the construction industry, like all others, is experiencing the incessant march of digital technology – what has become known as digital transformation. Talk of ERP, SaaS and cloud computing is now common in all aspects of business.

This new industry report sets out what we see as the key issues at play for the industry today and how we can start to understand and approach them.

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