Jade Lewis, Director of Advocacy for Saint-Gobain UK and Ireland, recently spoke at the annual CIMCIG debate at the Palace of Westminster - Improving the Image of Construction.

Following CIMCIG’s event on 16 May 2019 at the House of Lords on ‘Improving the image of construction’, Mark Farmer, CEO of Cast Consultancy discussed that consultants, lawyers and funders were to blame for issues with procurement bidding.

The value of all construction contract awards in April 2019 was £5.2bn, a decrease of 2.1% on March. However, the number of contract awards increased by 26% in April, indicating the volume of projects awarded must be at a lower value than March.

, CIM’s Construction Industry Group (CIMCIG) has released ten practical steps marketers can take to reshape the sector’s out of date image and more.

Focusing on the urgent need to attract new talent into the construction industry, Mark Farmer questioned an obsession with hard hats, middle aged men and uninspiring communications programmes in the Chartered Institute of Marketing Construction Industry Group discussion about image.

Sam Stacey, Challenge Director, Transforming Construction at UKR, one of the speakers at our upcoming event focussed on how we can improve the image of our industry, writes about the exciting opportunity to change.