As Collaborative Working Champions we often hear people say “there is so much to this Collaborative Working, if only someone could tell us the few things that will make a difference we would be able to make it work”. Acknowledging that these ‘few things’ can be dramatically different to different people and organisations based on … Continue reading “Collaborative Working Top 10 Tips and Benefits”
The October meeting of Constructing Excellence’s Sustainability Theme Group covered the critical issue of achieving behavioural change for sustainable construction. Three speakers shared their experiences and passed on some invaluable insight into what leads to successful and maintained behaviour change. The Speakers Martin Hunt, Built Environment and Infrastructure Specialist from Forum for the Future presented … Continue reading “Behavioural change for sustainable construction – how to achieve it”
It has been my mission over many years to help construction organisations to be more effective in their work-winning activities and enhance their win rates, which play a significant role in improving win work efficiencies. In 2003 MarketingWorks undertook research assessing how the bid cost investment affects work winning within the construction industry. In 2014 … Continue reading “2014 Bid Cost Survey”
The latest meeting of our sector-specific theme group was hosted at the world-leading Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre at Rotherham on September 23rd. Our hosts are the world’s biggest specialist R&D facility of its kind, and they specialise in working with the UK supply chain to improve their performance and readiness to supply to the nuclear … Continue reading “Constructing Excellence in Nuclear #CEnuclear”
We launched the 2015 Construction Industry KPIs report at BIS this week with Glenigan and CITB, the main partners these days. Download the report here, if you only have time to read 1 page then go for Tom Crane’s exec summary on page 5. The report raised some interesting topics for discussion, including via twitter … Continue reading “Thoughts from the 2015 Construction Industry KPI report launch”
Without clients, there would be no architecture and no design teams. Without brave and able clients our civilisation would be a poor place. To be effective, clients need a wide variety of skills and acumen, which conjoined with those of the design and construction teams produce good buildings. Why is it that Clients have been … Continue reading “New Book: Being an Effective Construction Client: Working on Commercial and Public Projects”
The Construction Industry Summit this week flagged up skills shortages again, but I worry that the focus is too short-term and addresses today’s skills, not what we need in the future. The skills we need are those that will allow us to transform the industry and deliver on the targets in the industrial strategy Construction … Continue reading “The capability gap”
Digitising the supply chain To many in the construction industry, late payment is a necessary evil. We almost take it for granted that some companies – often main contractors – will insist on long payment periods, but this credit can be abused as they find reasons to delay settlement of invoices until it suits them. … Continue reading “Late Payment – a guest blog from Textura Europe”
Did you want to know the latest thinking on some of the key challenges facing the built environment as a result of climate change are being tackled? Well the Constructing Sustainability Theme Group on 2 July provided some of the answers with a session themed around Resilience. This blog gives a short overview the meeting. … Continue reading “Creating and Maintaining a Resilient Built Environment”
Constructing Excellence is delighted to announce that Waterloo Air Products plc have agreed to be the first lead sponsor of “Beyond the Built Environment”, our 2015 Annual Conference at Lords Cricket Ground on 11th November. For over 100 years Waterloo have earned and maintained an enviable reputation for ventilation system design, engineering and manufacture. They … Continue reading “Waterloo Air Products plc to sponsor “Beyond the Built Environment””
