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”
View image | gettyimages.com Yes. Construction innovation is becoming essential for transformation of the UK industry, delivering value throughout the supply chain and delighting the end customer with the final … Continue reading “Construction innovation: does it matter?”
The engines that power our work to develop and promote excellence in the built environment supply chain are our members’ theme groups. At any time we have 7-8 theme groups, … Continue reading “CE Members’ Forum 08 October 2014”
Annual Convention On Friday 14th November, ahead of the Constructing Excellence National Awards 2014, G4C curated this year’s Constructing Excellence Annual Convention focussing on the image of the industry and … Continue reading “Constructing Excellence Annual Convention and National Awards 2014”
Last week was the annual gathering of the 50+ national, regional, local and younger generation organisations that make up the UK Constructing Excellence movement. Peter Hansford, the government’s chief construction … Continue reading “Perfect storm or burning platform? Better together – excellence in 2014 and beyond”