The Innovation and Future of Scotland s Construction Industry. William McBride FRICS, FIoD, MBA. Chair Construction Scotland Innovation Centre

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2 The Innovation and Future of Scotland s Construction Industry William McBride FRICS, FIoD, MBA Chair Construction Scotland Innovation Centre

3 Presentation Overview Understanding The Past Analysing The Present Creating The Future

4 Understanding The Past a challenged industry, each project being bespoke, Reaching for the skies (1934) a world of opportunity and profit for those who can overcome inherent and sometimes intractable problems The Simon Report (1944) one could be mistaken for thinking that nothing much has changed, the country needs a better construction industry The Barnwell Report (1967)

5 Understanding The Past ineffective, adversarial, fragmented and incapable of delivering for its customers The Latham Report (1994) Constructing The Team Disjointed short term thinking, different incompatible agendas at work The Egan Report (1998) Re-thinking Construction construction underperforms, poor and inconsistent procurement, fragmented approach, poor value for the public purse Government Construction Strategy Report (2011)

6 What Has Curtailed Transformational Industry Improvement The authors expended significant time defining the problem with hindsight that was in essence the simple part executing solutions has proven far more difficult. The suggested solutions worked on the basis of a common agenda in a fragmented industry making things better meant different things to different parties. In such a fragmented industry there needed to be a follow through with joined up intelligent design that infrastructure was not yet in place.. It is very difficult to solve a problem from within the model that created the problem. There was not enough industry leadership.

7 Analysing The Present From a Global Perspective Global Construction is forecast to grow to $15 trillion by In 2025 it is estimated that construction will account for 13.5% of the World s GDP. Much of this activity will be focused on Asia, Latin America, the Middle East. Africa and Eastern Europe. House building in North America alone is predicted to grow at a rate of 1.5 million new houses per year to Brazil and Mexico together are predicted to need 27.5 million new houses by However less than 2% of indigenous Scottish construction companies export outside the UK indeed only 4% export outside of Scotland Source: Global Construction Perspectives & Oxford Economics Publication Global Construction 2025 July

8 Analysing The Present From a UK Perspective The 2020 Vision report on future UK construction identified key areas of growth as offsite construction, energy efficiency measures, infrastructure and ICT. Accordingly the UK National Infrastructure Plan has a pipeline of projects identified over the next 5 years that will deliver 411 Billion worth of investment in the built environment infrastructure. The UK Construction Products Association indicated in August 2015 that construction output is forecast to increase by 4.9% this year, almost double the rate of the economy as a whole. It is estimated to increase by 21.7% by the end of 2019 Source. HM Government publication Construction 2025 October 2013 Office for National Statistics September 2015 Construction Scotland publication Building for the Future

9 The Key Scottish Numbers

10 Analysing The Present From a Scottish Perspective Building technology and energy management sectors alone and forecast to support 15,000 jobs in Scotland by 2020 Scottish investment into the low carbon retrofit market for buildings is expected to be worth 400m over the next 5 years The strategy is to grow the construction sector GVA for Scotland by some 800m some 9% within 2 years Export growth in construction is one of the Scottish Governments key objectives for the sector with resources being allocated to assist businesses to grow in this manner.

11 Creating the Future From a Scottish Perspective There are wonderful opportunities open to Scottish construction businesses, however to optimise the possibilities, our industry will need to evolve from its present state by looking both inwards and outwards. If we continue to operate in the same way, we will as an industry not achieve what we are capable of and in 10 years time the words of our illustrious predecessors, Simon, Barnwell, Latham and Egan will be repeated yet again. The means to evolve Scottish construction in a controlled and sustainable manner is through transformational Innovation. Which has led the Scottish Government to make innovation a core theme and invest some 120 million in a family of 8 Innovation Centres covering Scotland. One of which is the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre.

12 Creating the Future Through Recognising That Construction Is Part Of A Bigger Picture

13 Construction Innovation Centre Targets

14 Construction Innovation Centre Targets

15 Innovation Centre Achievements To Date

16 Innovation Centre Achievements To Date

17 Creating the Future Through Working In Industry Partnerships

18 Creating the Future Through University Collaboration 13 HEI Partners:

19 Creating the Future Through Working In Public Sector Partnerships P.Sector/Gov/Support Partners:

20 Creating the Future Through Clear Strategic Objectives To be a catalytic and compelling force for change. By encouraging a change in culture towards transformational construction innovation Using a more data driven & informed approach Thus helping to develop a more efficient & productive industry At the same time advancing a more entrepreneurial construction sector. Through building a more collaborative industry, focused on win win outcomes Thus growing a more internationally ambitious industry Thereby creating a more dynamic industry of choice for future employees from across entire talent pool

21 Creating the Future Through Focusing Expertise on Industry Need & Demand Developing a Pan-Scotland connected Network Creating a 3 way Industry, Academia, Public Sector Partnership

22 Creating the Future Through Clear Focus 5 Focus Areas: Advanced Construction Energy & ICT Environment Infrastructure Design & Performance

23 Creating the Future Through Support Transparency 4 innovation support streams Business Product Process Service PEOPLE

24 First Understand The Past Then Analyse The Present Then Create The Future Together

25 Some Points To Leave You With Scottish construction must innovate to evolve and thus improve. To evolve Scottish Construction we need to innovate on 4 fronts 1 Our Businesses choosing to deal with each other in a fair and collaborative manner always without bias to gender or ethnicity 2 Choosing to move our Construction Processes into the 21 st century. 3 Choosing to Increase the scope of our Product Development 4 Choosing to Increase the range of our services and export potential Underlying all of these innovation themes is people and at the end of the day the evolution of our collective mindset and our current construction culture is the most important innovation of them all.

26 We are not constrained by our circumstances we are made free by our choices Jim Collins Good to Great