Existing industry bodies such as the Construction Industry Board (CIB), Construction Best Practice Programme and the Design Build Foundation incorporated the Egan agenda into their activities, and were augmented by a new industry organisation, the Movement for Innovation (M4I). These national level organisations were tasked with application of the ideas of Rethinking Construction through ‘demonstration projects’, and regional ‘cluster groups’ or best practice clubs (these initiatives continue today under the auspices of Constructing Excellence).
In March 1999, the UK government's Achieving Excellence in Construction initiative was launched to improve the performance - as industry clients - of central government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies. The initiative set out a route map with performance targets under four headings: management, measurement, standardisation and integration. Targets included the use of partnering and development of long-term relationships.[3] Against this background, other government departments began to recognise the impact partnering could make and to promote the approach (e.g.: CABE/HM Treasury 2000, National Audit Office 2001).[4][5]
In July 2001, as successor to both the earlier Task Force and the CIB, the Strategic Forum for Construction was set up by ministers under the chairmanship of Sir John Egan. On 12 September 2002 it published Accelerating Change, a report on its first year of activity.[6] This report also underlined the potential importance of information technology in achieving greater integration, and set the tone for future UK government initiatives, notably the drive from 2010 onwards under chief construction advisor Paul Morrell to implement building information modelling on all UK public sector construction projects.[7]