Partners in search of firmer ground
13 September 2012
The demise of the Construction Industry Board appears to have dealt a severe blow to partnership and collaboration in the sector. But all is not lost and David Arminas finds that the industry remains hopeful
By this summer, most of the programmes organised and promoted by the Construction Industry Board (CIB), the sector’s main forum for promoting collaboration and partnering, will be divided up among various trade bodies or simply abandoned.
Inevitable and sad is how many purchasers have described the end of the CIB. Even the board’s creator was resigned to its...