Next week is shaping up to be a busy week for Constructing Excellence at Ecobuild. We hope you will be able to join us for some or all of it. Tuesday 6 March Offsite Awards The Offsite Manufacturing Technology Group are being given VIP access to Explore Offsite at Ecobuild including access to VIP lounge and … Continue reading “Join us at Ecobuild”
Thank you very much for participating in last week’s planning session for the Sustainability Theme Group. We certainly have a lot to build upon. The key areas of focus that came out are as follows: Sustainability Awards Finalists We are scheduling a programme of showcase webinars with all of the Sustainability finalists in our national … Continue reading “Follow up to Constructing Excellence Sustainability Workshop on 16 November”
A live office refurbishment will provide environmental and human data as evidence for positive health and wellbeing impacts on office occupants Constructing Excellence is a dissemination partner on The Biophilic Office project – a ground-breaking office refurbishment project that will provide quantified evidence on the benefits of biophilic design on health, well-being and productivity of … Continue reading “Constructing Excellence delighted to support biophilic design research project connecting buildings with nature”
Collaboration was the order of the day at the Sustainability Theme Group Meeting on Specifying Innovative and Sustainable Systems. The workshop, delivered in partnership with the Innovation Gateway and hosted at the BRE Innovation Park, looked at how innovative solutions move from concept to widespread implementation and use within the built environment. With over 40 … Continue reading “Specifying Innovative & Sustainable Systems”
The Constructing Excellence Sustainability Theme Group is teaming up with Innovation Gateway to bring you a session on innovative and sustainable solutions and how these are specified. The workshop taking place at the BRE Innovation Park in Watford will look at some best practice examples of where innovative solutions have been trialled and implemented on … Continue reading “Three fantastic innovations we’ll be exploring on 4 May”
The construction industry has rapidly developed in recent years, but arguably is still lagging behind other industries. With the recent publications of the government’s Construction 2025 targets, the industry is under the spotlight to collaborate to meet the government’s expectations. With Plasterboard as one of the most widely used materials in the industry, Astins has, … Continue reading “Astins Plasterboard Waste Sustainable Improvement Study”
On 31st January 2017 the Constructing Excellence Sustainability Theme Group explored healthy buildings and wellness. Chaired by Paul Toyne and hosted by Aecom – at their Aldgate Tower offices which has been designed to meet the very latest standards in healthy buildings and wellness, over 35 people across the whole value chain gathered to discuss … Continue reading “Things we learnt about healthy buildings and wellness”
Here is a quick and personal SWOT assessment of where the circular economy approach sits in infrastructure delivery right now: Strength Weakness Readily builds on pre-existing LEAN and materials efficiency work Wow! Factor and lots of momentum for implementation Unifying concept that can align all aspects of people, planet, profit strategies Driver for programme-level visibility … Continue reading “Some quick thoughts on Infrastructure and the Circular Economy”
On 4th October the Constructing Excellence theme groups on Digital Construction and Sustainability got together at the Turner & Townsend London offices to look at Delivering Sustainability Digitally. Chaired by Paul Toyne the session explored how digital technologies and data can provide evidence to support sustainable decision making. BIM (Building Information Modelling) was a key … Continue reading “Delivering Sustainability Digitally”
After an oversubscribed session in February the Constructing Excellence Sustainability Theme Group revisited the subject of the Circular Economy in Construction on 7th July. The expert speakers were, Robert Spencer, Director of Sustainability, Environment (EMEA) at AECOM, Gilli Hobbs, Director of Resource Efficiency at BRE and Clare Ollerenshaw, Circular Economy Manager at the London Waste … Continue reading “The Circular Economy Revisited”
Hear from our challenge director @SamStacey1 on how #ISCF #TransformingConstruction is delivering #buildingforimpact #netzero @innovateuk @CIH_HUB https://twitter.com/buildoffsite/status/1351880946203717633
Challenge Director at @innovateuk, @SamStacey1, will be delivering a Keynote: #BuildingForImpact & MMC’s role at @buildoffsite #MMC conference on 26th January. Register now:
https://buildoffsite.com/events/save-the-date-virtual-mmc-conference/
#offsite #construction #conference #TransformingConstruction @CIRIAupdates
Grand design & implementation in this Three Snowhill project from Ballymore, Gleeds, @BAMConstructUK, Sidell Gibson Architects, @Cundall_Global, Weedon Architects, M&G, @wsp Finalist in Building Project of the Year #CEAwards category. See you 29 Jan 2021!
https://constructingexcellence.org.uk/three-snowhill/
Inspiring #project "Scale: reversing the benefits of large" from Sutton #Housing Society - @SuttonHSociety - in the #Client of the Year Category of the National #CEAwards. Good luck at the #CEAwards final ceremony 29 January 2021. See you all there!
https://constructingexcellence.org.uk/scale-reversing-the-benefits-of-large/
