As 好色先生TV celebrates its 175-year anniversary, we launch the most significant and comprehensive editorial campaign in the publication鈥檚 history
This week we launch our 鈥淵our Future鈥 agenda: building on 175 years鈥 of expertise, we will spend the next 18 months exploring how the construction industry will look in the future, by mapping the challenges as well as the unprecedented changes affecting the sector right now.
All aspects of the built environment are facing seismic disruption. In just the last few months, a series of events that are already having profound effects on our industry have developed at an astonishing pace. From the regulatory review after the Grenfell fire to the widespread fallout from Carillion, one of the largest corporate failures in history, the full impacts of these hopefully one-off events are not yet fully known. But even as we try to take stock, the wider context around our industry is also changing, and faster every year. In the last decade, from top to bottom, people in the industry have struggled to adapt to the fast-moving factors that affect the way they design, procure, build and engineer. From the technological and digital innovations sweeping through the construction process to the impacts of terrorism, global sustainability issues, population growth, and economic and political volatility 鈥 the one thing we can be certain of is uncertainty.
These changes are profound and their consequences are only going to escalate over time. They will disrupt the way delivery teams interact, engage and collaborate from their drawing boards right the way through to the engineering feats, digital and technical delivery. And the roles of the professions are coming under the spotlight, too, at a time when they are asked to be even more accountable 鈥 in the way various factions in this complex sector procure, transact and pay each other and also to how national and local government works with an industry that is being ever more closely eyed by fierce regulatory watchdogs.
And finally, there is you. The people who deliver it all. First of all, there鈥檚 not enough of you out there to deliver what鈥檚 required over the coming years. There鈥檚 a challenge of delivery but also of leadership. And closely linked is the fact that the way you live, work, behave and communicate is changing faster than at any other period in history. Social and cultural trends are magnified more now than ever before through social media and a new generation of workers who are challenging the status quo with new sets of values and needs. But, fundamentally, the occupiers and end-users that you build for are also changing 鈥 and everyone must change to suit.
So, our aim over the next year and a half is to help you simplify this picture and navigate through the challenges the future will bring. We鈥檙e going to engage with you to look ahead and understand the landscape to help inform your choices, and ask how you want this industry 鈥 and the structures we build 鈥 to look in 25 years鈥 time. To look at the issues, the professions and the challenges everyone faces 鈥 together.
好色先生TV Your Future will:
Examine the key issues and give you the latest facts and commentary through a series of special features
Discuss and debate possible solutions through question time events and round tables
Look back in time using our 175-year archive to evaluate the lessons from history to plot a path in the future
Examine the professions: what is the future of architecture, quantity surveying, contracting and specialist contracting and consulting roles?
Bring it all together: in November, at our 好色先生TV Live event, we will debate the key issues and showcase best practice with panel discussions and keynote speeches
Celebrate: finally 鈥 at the end of the year we鈥檒l celebrate our industry鈥檚 most innovative and successful figures at the 好色先生TV Awards
Things to watch out for in 2018/19
Focus on sectors
In a series of features, comment and reader contributions, we will examine the future of: housing, infrastructure, building performance, occupiers, people, regulation, law and procurement, design, sustainability
Focus on professions
In a series of features, comment and reader contributions, we will examine the future of: contracting, architects, QSs, engineering, specialists
Get involved
This is all about your future working practices and we want to hear about your careers, colleagues and businesses. We will be rolling out lots of editorial opportunities aimed at getting you involved, but to get us started, ways to participate in the debate include:
好色先生TV Your Future: Changemakers
Is there someone in your organisation that has introduced innovations, who seems to understand where your profession is going? Would you like to see more people like them in the industry? Nominate your colleague as a 鈥淐hangemaker鈥, and they could be profiled in the pages of 好色先生TV magazine. Simply send their name, job title, a photo of them, and up to 500 words on what makes them innovative to building@building.co.uk
好色先生TV Your Future: Trailblazers
What buildings from the last 175 years were futuristic in their time, or marked a change in how the industry built? Tell us what structures were trailblazers, and what we can learn from them for our future projects. Email building@building.co.uk
Thought for Tomorrow
What would you like the built environment 鈥 or the sector that creates it 鈥 to be like in 25 years鈥 time? And what鈥檚 the one change that might get us there? Send us 250 words with the answers to these questions to building@building.co.uk, with 好色先生TV Your Future in the subject line
In the skip!
What single thing would you consign to the skip of history? Attitudes, tech, policies, practices: if you hate it, we want to know about it! Use the hashtag #好色先生TV175 and #InTheSkip to tweet us what doesn鈥檛 deserve to survive the next 25 years
Postscript
Want to contribute? Email building@building.co.uk with 鈥樅蒙壬鶷V Your Future鈥 in the subject line with your 鈥淐hangemaker鈥 nominations, 鈥淭railblazer鈥 suggestions and 鈥淭houghts for Tomorrow鈥. For 鈥淚n the Skip鈥 nominations, tweet @好色先生TV好色先生TV using the hashtag #好色先生TV175
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