Why Technology Has Not Transformed Building
24th May 2024
If you took a worker from a 1920s construction site and transported them to a present day project, they would not be that surprised by what they saw, according to Sam O’Gorman.
“Overall, across Europe and the US, stuff is still built in a pretty manual fashion – not very different to the way it would have been built 100 years ago,” says Mr Gorman, an associate partner in the property practice of consultancy firm McKinsey.
Key point that I think has more importance than the Voice of the Crust gives it:
“But at the moment in this country, because of the government’s approach to planning policy, projects are beset with delays. And that just doesn’t work, you need a more flexible approach.”
Every political jurisdiction in North America and Europe (and, for all I know, in Africa and Asia as well) feels free to stick its nose in the housing, how it’s built and how it’s maintained, to the point that progress is strangled every time it rears its ‘flexible’ head. Every time someone gets a clever idea, there’s a building inspector right on the spot to write them up.