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Purpose This Members' Forum will focus on engagement between the industry, universities and colleges. The half-day event is open to national members of Constructing Excellence and anyone in FE or HE who wishes to engage in the debate and subsequent work programme. In 2013 we held a similar event which was attended by 19 different universities and 25 CE member companies. A joint vision for academia and industry was proposed as follows: “A dynamic sector with a culture of innovation…
Find out more »We are very excited to invite you to our new home at BRE for our first Members' Forum since the merger. The morning session will give us an opportunity to update you on all the exciting developments as well as giving you the chance to give your input into shaping the phase of our movement, creating a stronger and more influential organisation which leads the drive to improve our industry. In the afternoon we are particularly pleased that BRE has scheduled…
Find out more »This Members' Forum will focus on offsite construction, pre-manufactured solutions, and industrialisation. It is open to all national members of Constructing Excellence and by invitation to members of their supply chain who wish to influence the future work of Constructing Excellence at a national level in this arena. In his review of the UK construction labour model entitled Modernise or Die published in October (#FarmerReview), Mark Farmer identified industrialisation and delivery through pre-manufactured methods as key in many sectors to addressing…
Find out more »We will be announcing our new chairmanship at our next Constructing Excellence Members' Forum. The forum will be a chance to refresh what we mean by our core value of collaboration. This will include a case study from the innovative Dudley College Advance II integrated project insurance trial project with Louise Lado-Byrnes of IPInitiatives an update on the approach to collaborative working from a major client with David Ferroussat at Heathrow a look at how groups of people even though highly…
Find out more »Procurement has a key role to play in ensuring that we deliver social value and source products and services responsibly and ethically. Following the successful APRES Conference, the Action Programme for Responsible & Ethical Sourcing has now become part of the Constructing Excellence movement. This Constructing Excellence Members Forum will look at the relationship between these three core elements and how we can work together to deliver real impact in this important area. Confirmed speakers include Charles Mills from CPC who chairs…
Find out more »March saw the launch of two significant outputs for Constructing Excellence: The Prospectus on Insurance Backed Alliancing and Organisational Resilience – Are we built on a house of cards? We will be examining these in detail at our members forum on 16 May. We will look in detail at Organisational Resilience in the UK Construction Industry, authored by Project 5. A particularly significant given some of the current issues affecting the industry. The report’s purpose – to provide an overview of how resilient the…
Find out more »We are asking Constructing Excellence members to join us on 12 September we will hear an update from some of our core Theme Groups that are fundamental to delivering our vision, including digital, offsite and collaborative working. We will then have an interactive session to identify the core research, innovation and skills required to effectively implement the Constructing Excellence Vision. Our Constructing Excellence Higher Education Group, now known as the Research, Innovation & Skills Theme Group, has developed strong links…
Find out more »For 20 years Constructing Excellence has been the go-to place for what and how to benchmark since the construction industry KPIs were launched, wallcharts and an annual industry performance report were published, and masterclasses were run. Around 2004 we worked with Salford University to make available an online portal for collecting, analysing and reporting KPIs to enable people to measure and compare their own performance on the basis of ‘apples with apples’, as a basis for prioritising improvements. We have…
Find out more »This event will have an Performance Measurement focus and is open to Constructing Excellence National members and invited guests. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/constructing-excellence-members-forum-performance-measurement-tickets-62204124210
Find out more »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? Are there positives that will be taken forward into the ‘new normal’? Could this accelerate our much needed transformation towards being a more productive sector?…
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