The current COVID situation is forcing everyone to live and work differently. We are embracing new technologies and ways of working. This applies across all areas and levels of construction from design teams through to delivery on site, we are all embracing change. But what impact is this having on productivity? Are we more productive? … Continue reading “Productivity under COVID19 – Event output”
The Construction Innovation Hub is inviting clients and businesses to input into the first of a series of new processes which could spark a game-change in the sector’s approach to quality planning. The Hub’s Construction Quality Planning (CQP) process is inspired by Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), which is already used widely across leading … Continue reading “Construction Innovation Hub launches Construction Quality Planning consultation”
Strong alignment with the core Constructing Excellence messages around collaborative procurement, engagement with supply chains, procuring for value and a focus on long term planning. Great to see reference to our KPIs as we kick off our programme around performance measurement and work through the Construction Innovation Hub to look at long term value-based metrics. … Continue reading “Fine Margins – Delivering financial sustainability in UK construction”
Introduction Alison Nicholl Constructing Excellence Clients Procuring for Value Phil Wilbraham Heathrow Keith Waller CIH Anne Bentley RLB Isolda Agusti CIH Performance David Whysall Turner & Townsend Becky Dodds Agri-TechE Nick Leach Sir Robert McAlpine New Delivery & Funding Structures Marcus Harling Burges Salmon Manufacturing & Technology Mark Farmer Cast Lorraine McMorrow McAvoy Group Prof … Continue reading “Presentations and Poll results from #CE2020Focus”
Constructing Excellence has a 20-year track record in performance measurement through our industry KPIs which were originally devised to track the implementation of the Egan review. As output measures these are still broadly fit for purpose for showing improvement in project performance (on time, on budget etc), but in the past haven’t always been explicitly … Continue reading “Measuring Excellence – an appeal for project performance data”
Thank you to all who attended the Constructing Excellence Member’s Forum hosted by Burges Salmon on performance management. The afternoon saw a productive session, giving Constructing Excellence a clear plan to reboot our work on performance measurement, KPIs and benchmarking, using our new Sitesmart KPIs portal, and align with other industry initiatives. Alison Nicholl opened, … Continue reading “Performance Measurement Forum: Delivering value through performance measurement”
My colleague Colm Quinn gave an overview of our new SmartSiteKPIs portal at UK Construction Week in Birmingham ahead of the launch of the annual Industry Performance Report. I’d like add a few points. First of all, let me place on record our thanks to Salford University who produced the first KPI engine as a … Continue reading “2018 UK Industry Performance Report published – comment from Don Ward”
If you were at UK Construction Week you may have noticed the announcement of our new KPI and benchmarking tool, SmartSite KPIs. Modern technology lets us capture more data than ever about our projects, but it is important to know what information matters. Our new tool will combine the authority of Constructing Excellence’s tried and … Continue reading “SmartSite KPIs – a new performance management and productivity tool from Constructing Excellence and BRE”
Constructing Excellence ran a workshop for members on September 8th, 2017 which provided some insightful feedback on the industry’s perspective on benchmarking and CE’s role in this area. You will be aware of Constructing Excellence’s track record on benchmarking stretching back nearly 20 years to the establishment of the Construction Industry KPIs. Under the new … Continue reading “Future of benchmarking and data in the Construction Industry – workshop report”
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”
This is brilliant news to accelerate the development of our member @buildots - demonstrates investor appetite for digitalising construction https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/30/buildots-raises-16m-to-bring-computer-vision-to-construction-management/?guccounter=1
Just ⏰three days left⏰to have your say on our #CQP consultation. Click below to watch a short video about CQP & follow the link to take part in the consultation 👇 @keithdwaller @ACE_Updates @constructingexc @UKRI_News @innovateuk @trudisully https://twitter.com/CIH_HUB/status/1287674760403603457
🖱️Our online consultation on the draft #CQP guide closes on Friday 31 July.
Is your organisation producing new #construction products? Are they being delivered at scale using #offsite, #MMC, #platform and #DfMA approaches?
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/CQPConsultation
This is a significant initiative to ensure we retain talent in the sector. Some great work from across the sector @ACE_Updates
Very pleased to attend the virtual launch of the Talent Retention Scheme from the #ConstructionLeadershipCouncil today.
This will help retain vital knowledge & skills within the #construction industry at this pivotal time in the nation’s economic recovery https://www.trs-system.co.uk/construction
