{"id":7473,"date":"2020-10-28T17:28:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/?p=7473"},"modified":"2020-10-30T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T09:21:27","slug":"lets-focus-on-the-good-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/lets-focus-on-the-good-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s focus on the good guys"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7473\" class=\"elementor elementor-7473\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7831c390 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7831c390\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3a4aebad\" data-id=\"3a4aebad\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c4fa250 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"4c4fa250\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd68f65 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fd68f65\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/easyfairsassets.com\/sites\/71\/2020\/10\/AnnBentley.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-7474\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/easyfairsassets.com\/sites\/71\/2020\/10\/AnnBentley.jpg 480w, https:\/\/easyfairsassets.com\/sites\/71\/2020\/10\/AnnBentley-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f8ba63 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8f8ba63\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Let\u2019s focus on the good guys<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ffa4ecc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3ffa4ecc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ea-article-body-content\"><p>There is a lot of doom and gloom out there at the moment. From news about the domestic\u00a0implications of a second wave of covid-19 to its on-going global economic impact, it is all very sober reading and watching.<\/p><p>As I scroll through the stories, it is not lost on me that we are seeing similar headlines in the construction sector at the moment \u2013 the talk is about contractual disputes, lack of accountability, toxic supply chain relationships, falling productivity, redundancies and how construction cannot attract talent as it is not really an attractive place to work.<\/p><p>But while it is incontrovertible that covid-19 has had a horrendous health, social and economic toll, the real picture in construction is more nuanced and there is so much good going on.<\/p><p>Construction productivity only suffered a short-term dip and, in some areas, it is now higher than pre-covid levels, as contractors and consultants adopt more agile and innovative ways of working. While we should not underestimate the contractual fall-out, we have also seen pragmatic approaches by clients and the supply-chain, underpinned by clear guidance from the government. We were also one of the first sectors to launch a talent retention scheme. But no one tends to talk about these so much.\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/comment\/lets-focus-on-the-good-guys\/5108448.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building<\/a> on 15 October 2020 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/comment\/lets-focus-on-the-good-guys\/5108448.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read the full article<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s focus on the good guys There is a lot of doom and gloom out there at the moment. From news about the domestic\u00a0implications of a second wave of covid-19 to its on-going global economic impact, it is all very sober reading and watching. As I scroll through the stories, it is not lost on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[],"edition":[],"class_list":["post-7473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7473"},{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=7473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}