ABSTRACT
The demand from clients in the UK for radical improvements in the performance of the construction industry is not unique; it is a demand that is echoed by clients across most of the developed world. This is exemplified particularly well in two documents that have been published since the Latham Report in 1994. The first was the 1995 report by the Construction and Building Sub-committee of the Committee on Civilian Industrial Technology (CCIT) in the United States of America. The CCIT is part of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), which is a cabinet-level group charged with setting Federal technology policy. The second document was Construction 21, which was produced for the Singapore Ministry of Manpower in 1999.
