“There is a rot at the core of how construction is procured and it begins with clients and main contractors. We are already at the bottom, as can be seen in cruel black and white by the failures of large main contractors throughout 2023. Something has to change!” proclaimed Mike Wharton, chief executive of Complete Roofing Systems in the UK. In his March article, Wharton compared the relationship between construction’s main contractors and its specialists to a scene with the Devil in the 1999 Arnold Schwarzenegger film ‘End of Days’. He went into some detail on the many issues that exist in the construction procurement process from the late introduction of specialists to the unreasonable demands from main contractors. He noted how the risk inevitably ends up on the specialists and warned the construction sector that enough is enough. “There have been some high-profile main contractor administrations and receiverships in 2023 and no doubt there […]