The Latham report, 30 years on

Tim Seal-min

Constructing the Team called for a more collaborative industry approach and directly led to the introduction of statutory adjudication. But how well is adjudication working today?

It is 30 years this month since Sir Michael Latham鈥檚 final report of his review of procurement and contractual arrangements in the UK construction industry, Constructing the Team.

In his foreword, Latham explained that the report contained recommendations to tackle the problems behind the industry鈥檚 longstanding discontent at how it functioned and what it achieved. Pointedly, the title of his interim report was Trust and Money. He described Constructing the Team as the 鈥減ersonal report of an independent but friendly observer鈥, emerging from the profound disagreement of the voices he had heard during the consultation process.

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