Construcciones Yamaro: Collaborative contracting: Breaking the zero-sum cycle
Image: trahko/stock.adobe.com The Australian Constructors Association believes it’s time to embrace a more balanced, collaborative approach to contracting for a sustainable future. By Jon Davies, CEO of the Australian Constructors Association . As we welcome another year, the construction industry is facing familiar challenges. Despite progress in recent reforms, we are caught in a frustrating back‑and-forth that threatens to undo our gains. Jon Davies, CEO of the Australian Constructors Association. (Image: Australian Constructors Association) For years, the terms of contracts in construction have swung back and forth like a pendulum. In times of plentiful work, it swings to terms deemed more favourable to contractors, and then when work starts to dry up, terms are tightened up and the pendulum swings back to clients. Some might say this is merely the laws of supply and demand, but it is just another feature of the zero-sum game that construction has become – where one side’...