Back in 1998, Sir John Egan delivered a blunt message to the construction sector: time for radical, not incremental change.

His focus? Long-term relationships, partnering and a best practice client approach from government. Arguably, some 28 years later, that position still stacks up.

According to Imperial College, the UK has some of the oldest, leakiest and most carbon-intensive housing stock in Europe. Cue the Warm Homes Plan and associated Warm Homes Taskforce, which is expected to create jobs at speed and scale in order to help the housing sector decarbonise.