This week’s newsletter is a good reflection of the wider picture of our Welsh construction industry. On the one hand we are already promoting the highlight of many people’s year – the CEW Awards 2016. But on the other hand we are talking about the details around changes in regulations around sprinkler systems and the requirement to embed sustainable development into our processes.

The great joy of working in Wales is the thirst for knowledge. Knowledge that will help us all deliver great benefits to the end users of the buildings, facilities, hospitals, schools and transport infrastructure our industry provides. It doesn’t matter if the information is about rules and regulations around sprinklers or the use of BIM. What matters is that Wales is continually seeking to improve on how it does things.

If we harness that energy then we can effect real and meaningful change right across the built environment. I said as much in an interview last week with the Daily Post. We have real momentum now in Welsh construction. What we must do is focus that momentum on the issues that really count and keep pushing for a better way of building in Wales to create the world class economy we all require.