Leibal | Minimal Design Blog. The Business Case for Collaboration in a Recession – But who buys? - Just Practising. Yesterday I was in London for some meetings (more about them another time) and I was able to go along to an event organised by Bernie Mitchell in the evening at which Don Ward, CEO of Constructing Excellence, gave a talk entitled ‘Never Waste a Good Crisis’ – a great slogan borrowed from the Obama administration and also the title of Constructing Excellence’s ‘Wolstenholme Report’ published in November 2009. 18 months on and where are we? Things are pretty bad for the construction industry in the UK, and we’re still waiting for commitment on the low carbon economy from the year-old government. Don Ward believes that the improvement of existing stock to meet our carbon reduction targets will be our bread and butter for at least the next 3-4 years, perhaps the next 10.
Don’s argument for collaboration was set out for us on a slide very similar to the one I’d seen at his talk to the AEC Network in July 2009, which I illustrated a blog about Facilities Management with last year.