Purpose – The paper is aimed at introducing ḥalāl supply chain management to the British construction sector, construction supply chains, and supply chain management (‘SCM’). Ḥalāl supply chains can optimise British construction supply chains by promoting meticulous, qualitative, and mutually reinforcing systems. The British construction sector has failed to overcome the inimical, inefficient, fractured, and transactional attitudes (collectively, the ‘complexities’) pervading it and the supply chains beneath it. Construction SCM has been able to introduce change, but with limited profound effect. This is owed to its lack of human agency, proactive quality control systems, as well as other verification and assurance mechanisms. Introducing the Sharīʿa principles encapsulating ḥalāl food supply chains can offer the input needed to optimise current construction supply chains. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts an integrative general review of the academic literature pertaining to the British construction sector, construction SCM, ḥalāl food supply chains, ḥalāl assurance and control processes. The extensive literature review is crucial as it will enable introducing ḥalāl to construction SCM; hence, ḥalāl construction supply chain management (‘ḤCSCM’). ḤCSCM will then be applied to one of the most recent British construction-SCM systems to identify how ḤCSCM can complement existing systems.Findings – The findings indicate that ḤCSCM can further alleviate the complexities thwarting the British construction sector on a supply chain level. This is attributed to taʿrīf's tailored identification and traceability processes, iltizām’s cross-lateral monitoring processes, and istiqāmah’s Shariah-compliant, assured, and verifiable certification system, all of which complement the existing construction supply chain assurance and control processes in the UK. Originality/value – The conception of ḤCSCM promotes an untapped area in the academic literature. Academicians and practitioners can transplant ḥalāl principles from the ḥalāl food manufacturing sector into the British construction sector, similar to how construction SCM was founded by principles originating from the manufacturing industry. The paper highlights the shortfalls of construction SCM in British construction supply chains and propounds how ḤCSCM can resolve them
