Building bridges: how Paul Morrell would fix our broken products testing system

By Carl Brown2023-07-18T06:00:00

Industry veteran Paul Morrell has written a seminal review on overhauling products testing. The man himself explains his thinking in the first of a two-part interview

Paul Morrell is one of construction’s heavy hitters. As the government’s first construction adviser from 2009 to 2012, he is credited with pushing through big reforms in public sector construction, including the roll-out of BIM (building information modelling) and billions of pounds of cost-savings.

He has since spent 10 more years as head of his own consultancy business specialising in, among other things, economics and procurement. And then, in April 2021, former housing secretary Robert Jenrick turned to Morrell when he needed somebody to head up a review of current systems for testing and regulating construction products.

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