ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the circumstances which are coming together to produce revolutionary change to the way in which construction processes are being exercised. Vectors, visions and values lie at the heart of the changes which the research community must address but perhaps the greatest of these are values. Society across the world is changing and despite resistance in some quarters there is much more sharing of knowledge leading to a common or converging viewpoint which may in the long run lead to globalisation of values. The seduction by western values is seen by many to be one of the downsides of such open access which is controlled by a few.
