Local authorities, housing associations and developers can use the app to drive standardisation across their estates, using a pattern book of apartments to deliver projects more efficiently, and achieving benefits like standardised maintenance regimes.

■ All solvents bio-sourced and head-ache free (safe and compliant).■ Use minimised.

■ Recycling maximised.Maybe these could be summed up with the joint sentiment that an industry focused on health should not conspire to harm the long-term well-being of society..So how do we accelerate?.

The drivers for change in this arena need themselves to change, in reality and in dialogue.. With tough and uncertain trading conditions, drivers which do not put economics at the centre of things, risk becoming marginalised.The aims of efficiency, intensification, recycling and waste reduction, if applied correctly, are directly shared with improving today’s economics.

In an arena where regulation and taxation will be aligned to carbon reduction, there is also a strategic necessity for long-term profitability.

Framing the drivers in this way would chime much more favourably with shareholders, boardrooms, and in the political arena.. Economics are certainly the key driver in the generics manufacturers who operate in price-sensitive markets.Kätelhön, Arne, et al,.

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