Research For The Construction Industry
TLF Research has been developing customer research programmes for more than 20 years, working with organisations throughout the construction supply chain.
Whether your customers are specifiers, main contractors, distributors, merchants, installers, end users, or all of the above, we can tailor a research solution that will help you to understand and meet their needs.
Construction is a complex sector, and most suppliers have a mix of customers with completely different expectations, both transactional and non-transactional. Successful organisations ensure they understand all these relationships. With high-value clients and longer-term projects, getting detailed feedback from a single client can be powerful.
We'll work with you to identify key customer types, develop the best methodology to engage them, and ensure you get the insight you need without over-surveying.
Get in touch to find out how we can help.
Who We Work With
We're proud to work with a wide range of organisations throughout the construction supply chain.
Construction Supply Chain Services
Transactional & Non-Transactional Customer Research
Detailed Qualitative Depth Interviews
Key account reviews
Project milestone surveys
Competitive standing
Customer journey mapping
Service design & Action Planning
Customer centricity
End user research
Research Result Communications
Benchmarking & Target Setting
Construction, Who to Interview - Guide
In "Construction, Who to Interview" we explore one of the most common reasons customer research fails in the construction sector: organisations are simply not talking to the right people to inform the decisions they need to make.
The "customer" is rarely a single role, and instead spans a complex network of decision-makers, influencers, users, specifiers and end customers across the full lifecycle of a project.
Beyond who to interview, the guide shows how customer insight should be used: translating business questions into effective research, balancing tactical feedback with strategic relationship insight, and feeding learning back into decisions at every level of the organisation. If you work in the construction supply chain this download offers a clear, experience-led way to rethink who you listen to, what you ask, and how insight should shape strategy, operations and long-term customer relationships.
Book a Construction intro meeting
Book a Construction intro meeting using our online calendar to discuss your requirements and objectives and determine how our research can help.
What we do
As a full service customer research agency, we can help you with every stage of your journey, from planning and research design, to creative communication and taking action.
Using NPS In The Construction Sector
Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a popular measure in many sectors, and is often treated as a de facto standard in customer research, one simple methodology that works the same for everyone. If only it were that simple!
If you work in the construction sector, there are some important considerations that determine whether to use NPS as your measure, and how you should use it. In this brief article, we detail the key things to bear in mind.
Strategic, tactical, & ad-hoc research
We understand that not all organisations need our full service offer and we're happy to be able to work on standalone projects to meet your needs. These include:
CX strategy design
Research planning
Questionnaire design
Data collection only (whether face-to-face or by post, telephone, email, or SMS)
Depth interviews and key account reviews
Analysis and reporting (including validating existing research)
Communications for feeding back survey results to customers and colleagues
Workshop facilitation for action planning
Customer journey mapping
Content From the CX Insights Hub
Webinar
Construction: Customer Research - Who to interview?
Architects, specifiers, contractors, suppliers, manufacturers, the list goes on - a common challenge for customer research within the construction sector is deciding who to interview. Who can give you the actionable insight you need to drive positive change? While the right answ...
News & Opinion
5 Tips To Maximise B2B Customer Insight
Are you getting the most value from your customer research? In some cases a single response can pay for the whole survey, enabling our client to follow up with an unhappy customer and intervene before they defect to a competitor, but your customer insight (and your customer exper...
Magazine
Now, Next, and Later: Customer Relationships at Interserve
Iain Shorthose explains how Interserve are using research to build stronger relationships with customers
Webinar
B2B Customer Journey Mapping
Journey mapping is an important task to undertake for both B2C and B2B customers, but the outputs for these 2 groups will look significantly different. We’re focusing on B2B customer journey mapping in this webinar and how to ensure all the relevant insight is captured.
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