Construction 2000 (Archived)

To prepare for projects of the future, managers need to take several key actions now: (RS18-1, p. 21) 

• Monitoring opportunities and influences
• Developing human resources
• Going after new technology
• Continuously improving processes
• Challenging and involving all employees
• Building team relationships  

To improve the positioning of the entire U.S. construction industry by the year 2000, three major forces must be overpowered by members of the U.S. construction industry during the 1990s:

1. Relinquish paradigms that have inhibited progress in the past
2. Establish methods to overcome, or cope with the predicted shortage of qualified human resources
3. Reestablish the working environment that stimulated the driving forces that allowed the U.S. construction industry to become a world leader in supplying construction services: "U.S. innovation and creativity" (SD-64, p. iv.)