Poor payment practices within many UK construction supply chains cause economic and social damage, and undermine the reputation of the industry. It’s time prompt payment became the norm not the … Continue reading “The business case for prompt payment”
The Draft International Standard (DIS) for ISO 11000 is now open for public comment and will remain open until 7th March. This is a major stage in the development of … Continue reading “ISO 11000 Reaches Important Milestone”
The 2015 ECI Client Round-Table Forum brought together a group of senior representatives from leading client/asset owners from sectors including oil and gas, pharmaceutical, process plant and product manufacture. The … Continue reading “ECI New Year Forum – Collaborating to Reduce the Cost Base”
At the Institute for Collaborative Working Awards ceremony on Thursday 26th November in the House of Lords the results of the Benefits Realisation research, commissioned from Warwick Business School, was formally … Continue reading “Benefits Realisation from Collaborative Working report”
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 … Continue reading “Collaborative Working Top 10 Tips and Benefits”
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 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”
Integration is the combining of parts into a whole. In construction, this means bringing together everyone involved in the delivery of a project so that they work in unison towards … Continue reading “Integration and Collaborative Working”
