We need to see this recently accelerated pace of change continue, and perhaps go even further, as the government sets out its plans to drive an economic recovery through the way it invests in construction infrastructure..

Using process engineering to deliver broader outcomes.This is particularly pertinent in the construction industry right now.

For a long time, we’ve been chasing capital cost, regardless of carbon emissions or societal outcomes.We haven’t previously placed value on things like sustainable design and this has led us into some of the issues we’re now facing, like climate change.As a result, we need to look at broadening out the outcomes we expect to get from construction projects, both now and in the future.

We need to focus on the wider value piece.We’ve got to get under the skin of the client, or Government department, and understand what’s really valuable.

Moving to a value-based process requires us to be braver.

It requires more innovation..This will be about the industrialisation of wind, wave, water, solar power; industrialisation of energy saving, carbon-capture and energy storage.

All this must be done with the lowest embedded carbon methods we can find, while also protecting and supporting the natural world to begin to thrive again..This is no simple task.

However, we know that the systematisation of methods, super-charged with developments in creative technologies, is a proven way to exponentially industrialise, as it has in the last 100 years.Approaches which modularise process plants and utilities move construction techniques into mass production techniques.