Members who are not active in the nuclear newbuild sector should not be put off by the origin of our latest report Construction Factory Thinking, produced by our Nuclear theme group, … Continue reading “Ward’s Words: June 2018”
This newsletter comes out the day after our sister organisation ECI held its major conference on Rethinking Capital Projects in the engineering construction sector. A number of CE members are going, … Continue reading “Ward’s Words: February 2018”
Will the Carillion news this week focus enough minds sufficiently to make a difference? Two angles have particularly struck me. One was that a number of sector figures stepped up … Continue reading “Ward’s Words: January 2018”
It was good to see so many members at the annual conference on December 12th and I hope you found it a valuable day. Thanks and much appreciation go to … Continue reading “Ward’s Words: December 2017”
It has been a month of liaison and influence with government and the Construction Leadership Council including on the proposed sector deal under the industrial strategy and on specific topics … Continue reading “Ward’s Words – November 2017”
Our nuclear theme group’s autumn meeting was hosted by EDF in Somerset on October 9th and featured a site tour of the Hinckley Point C construction site. I hope you … Continue reading “Ward’s Words: Nuclear Theme Group Meeting”
As you will have seen in our special announcement last week, the European Construction Institute (ECI) has become part of BRE alongside Constructing Excellence. ECI is a very similar body … Continue reading “Ward’s Words: ECI”
Since our last update our new co-chairs sat down to flesh out their shared views on updating the purpose of Constructing Excellence and what we do, in particular to reflect … Continue reading “Words into action”
“Positively disrupting the industry delivery model to deliver a transformation in superior value for all”. This was the summary of our co-chairs’ shared vision for the next phase of Constructing … Continue reading “Ward’s Words: Positively disrupting the industry delivery model”
I am excited about next week’s members forum, not only because it provocatively challenges whether collaboration remains our raison d’etre in the view of members, and because we will hear … Continue reading “Ward’s Words: Looking forward to our new chairmanship”