According to research carried out by Shape the Future for awards company Boost, 82% of the 400 decision makers interviewed agreed that they take awards into consideration when buying a new product or service.

Higher demand for construction products and materials contributed to longer wait times for deliveries by suppliers.

My career has given me the opportunity to experience a number of different approaches to the production and maintenance of product information. I have been fortunate to have headed up a marketing department within a business that incorporated the marketing processes within its own wider business procedures which were formalised within ISO9001.

Things are steadily improving! The recent budget promised an investment lead recovery. The latest construction data from ONS shows a 4.6% quarter-on-quarter increase in the final quarter of 2020 which followed a record quarterly growth of 40.7% in Q3 2020. We can expect a busy year for construction!

If you are a Marketing professional who operates within the construction sector, the Chartered Institute of Marketing Construction Industry Group (CIMCIG) is looking for new ambassadors to support the committee.

One of the few benefits of being old, and having a long career in the construction industry, is that you can often say that you’ve been there, done that, …. You know the rest. And in respect of the draft Code for Construction Product Information (CCPI), many of the recommendations are not new but best practice and in operation in some businesses today. The sad thing is, that it is terrible that we need the CCPI in the first place.