As construction responds to the ambition to deliver enhanced growth across the sector, building organisational capabilities to deliver more integrated and manufacturing-led approaches will be critical for enabling improvements in productivity and predictability across the industry. To do this safely, sustainably and to the required quality, organisations of all sizes from across the sector should invest in developing the capabilities needed to work in more coordinated and productive ways.
The Construction Leadership Council’s People & Skills Network today released the Building Capability to Deliver Growth report. The report was developed including contribution from the University of Cambridge, and chaired by Laing O’Rourke’s Group Commercial and Clients & Markets Director, John O’Connor.
The report finds that realising the opportunities of industrialised construction will be reliant upon:
- Development of transferable competencies to support new ways of working
- Early engagement and collaboration across clients, designers, contractors,
manufacturers and the wider supply chain - Enabling procurement and contractual approaches that support collaboration and
supply-chain integration - Stronger logistics planning
- Greater use of digital and data-enabled coordination
To support practical action, the report proposes a capability maturity roadmap that aims to allow organisations to assess their current position, identify capability gaps, and explore how they can progress from awareness and experimentation towards integrated, data-driven industrialised delivery.
BSI and ISO update world’s most used quality standard for global trade
In another measure aimed at improving organisational capacity, a new edition of the world’s most widely used framework for building and maintaining quality-driven organisations has been published by BSI, the UK’s national standards body, and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
BS EN ISO 9001: 2026 Quality management systems – Requirements is the standard’s first revision in more than a decade. Adoption of the standard supports market entry and helps businesses improve the quality and consistency of their products and services by putting clear processes and continuous improvement at the heart of operations. The standard can help organizations work more efficiently, reduce waste, make better use of resources, increase customer satisfaction and build greater trust with customers and stakeholders.
The 2026 edition responds to today’s complex operating environment, placing greater emphasis on leadership, quality culture and ethical behaviour, and providing greater clarity on how to consider risks and opportunities to support better strategic decision-making.
Explore the key changes in BS EN ISO 9001:2026 in further detail.
