We had an interesting session at the Nuclear Theme Group meeting on 11 March, with a number of very informative presentations, followed by some lively discussion and debate. Our first … Continue reading “Nuclear Theme Group meeting 11th March”
Competition in procurement can add value. Some may find that strange for a champion of collaboration to say, but that is to misunderstand what we at Constructing Excellence mean by … Continue reading “Competitive tendering costs, is it worth it?”
This article sets out our thinking about Constructing Excellence qualifications. As the sector emerges from recession, the CE Vision work building on Construction 2025 recognises the need for major advances in … Continue reading “Qualifications in “Constructing Excellence””
We had a CW Champions meeting last Thursday with some very interesting presentations and discussions. We heard about Behaviours4Collaboration a developing initiative to identify, define and present a framework which … Continue reading “CW Champions Chairman’s Blog”
Behaviours4Collaboration At the London offices of multi-disciplinary consultant Pick Everard yesterday, the Collaborative Working Champions held their quarterly meeting, and the agenda stimulated a lot of conversation about collaborative behaviours. … Continue reading “Alliancing, BS11000 and Behaviours4Collaboration”
The Green Construction Board launched their ‘Three Years On’ report yesterday at Ecobuild outlining the progress of the construction industry towards the green construction targets. For those of you that have not … Continue reading “Green Construction Board – “Three Years On””
As you may have already noticed our new website went live over the weekend. While there is still plenty of work to do, even in its current “beta” state it is … Continue reading “The new Constructing Excellence website is now live”
The theme of the first Constructing Excellence Members’ Forum of the year was “Procurement” to tie in with the launch of our new Procurement Theme Group. Don Ward kicked off … Continue reading “CE Members’ Forum on Procurement 11th February 2015”
Salford University led by Professor Peter Barrett have published the final reports of their study of the effect of built environment quality on educational outcomes in primary schools. The very … Continue reading “Clever classrooms”
One of the less well known but most useful British Standards for our sector is BS 8534:2011, “Construction procurement policies, strategies and procedures. Code of practice”. It gives recommendations and … Continue reading “British Standard BS 8534 on construction procurement”