Latham made 53 recommendations to change industry practices, to increase efficiency and to replace the bureaucratic, wasteful, adversarial atmosphere prevalent in most construction projects with one characterised by openness, co-operation, trust, honesty, commitment and mutual understanding among team members.
For example: The Report spawned a raft of initiatives including the establishment of the Construction Industry Board to oversee reform.
At the request of the Construction Clients' Forum (formed following Latham's recommendation), the CIB published a further report, Partnering in the Team in 1996.
[5] Latham's call for quality registers of approved contractors, sub-contractors and consultants led to the 1998 establishment of Constructionline.
[6] The Latham Review commended the establishment of the Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment programme at the University of Cambridge (page 73) and in turn was one of the influences that helped to shape the early syllabus of the IDBE course.