Ten years have passed since part two of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (generally referred to as the Construction Act) came into force, in May 1998. This had the objectives of ending unfair payment practices in the construction industry and giving parties the right to the relatively informal, speedy and binding (albeit not final) adjudication of their disputes, thereby implementing some of the key recommendations made by Sir Michael Latham in his report, Constructing the Team, published in 1994.
This year also marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of Sir John Egan’s report, Rethinking Construction, which pulled no punches in identifying the continuing failures of the construction industry at that time, and recommending the implementation of radical measures for their correction.
