Offsite Manufacturing & Technology Group Visit to Genuit Group
2022-01-13 10:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London)
Visit one of the UK’s leading manufacturers and explore how construction can work better with our manufacturing base.

The Offsite Manufacturing & Technology Group is invited for a visit to the Polypipe Building Services Facility (part of Genuit Group) at Aylesford, Kent. The event will provide an opportunity to see the facility in action including Blue Green Roof Infrastructure and Offsite fabrication. This will be followed by a roundtable discussion on how the construction industry and the manufacturing base currently interact the opportunities to deliver to deliver better outcomes through working collaboratively. In order to increase our productivity and deliver our net zero ambitions there needs a more cohesive approach across construction and the manufacturing base.

Digital Drop In February - Diversity & Inclusion
2022-02-17 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | online
Is technology doing enough to drive equality, diversity and inclusion in construction?
The pace and uptake of digital technologies in the sector are developing apace. The Constructing Excellence Digital Group will be holding informal ‘Digital Drop-Ins’ usually on the third week of every month to provide members with an opportunity to share ideas, best practice and seek advice around the key issues impacting our digital journey.

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CE Procurement Group - Procuring for MMC
2022-02-23 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Joining Constructing Excellence Procurement Group and Offsite Manufacturing and Technology Group, we will be discussing Procuring for MMC.

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Collaborative Working Mentors March 2022
2022-03-17 08:30 - 10:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Join us on 17th March to talk about Collaborative Working and how to approach ESG in 2022!

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Digital Drop In March - Award winner: Leeds FAS2 Natural Flood Management
2022-03-17 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | online
The pace and uptake of digital technologies in the sector are developing apace. The Constructing Excellence Digital Group will be holding informal ‘Digital Drop-Ins’ usually on the third week of every month to provide members with an opportunity to share ideas, best practice and seek advice around the key issues impacting our digital journey.
Hear from the winner of our Digital Construction Award – Leeds FAS2 Natural Flood Management and find out how digital is being used to drive better outcomes.

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CE Procurement Group - Building Safety Programme
2022-03-23 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | online
Joining Constructing Excellence Procurement Group, we will be discussing building safety programmes.

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Construction 2050: The Future Material Requirements of the Construction Sector
2022-03-24 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | Online
The foundation industries operate on long term investment cycles. This means that many companies are now planning the facilities that will be in operation in 2050. But the need to reduce carbon emissions and improve resource efficiency are impacting not just the foundation industries, but also their customers. What types of materials and products will their customers be wanting to purchase this far into the future?

The construction sector is major customer for foundation industry products, including cement, glass, metals and bulk chemicals. The Transforming foundation industries challenge – UKRI is supporting the development of innovative technology to reduce energy and resource use within the foundation industries.

BRE has been commissioned to help the Foundation Industries understand the future material requirements of the UK construction sector, including:

Market opportunities and threats.
The possible impact of disruptive products or business models.
Their short and medium term research needs.

This online workshop will bring together the foundation industries and the construction industry to understand the drivers and future requirements of the sector. There will be an opportunity to hear from Innovate UK, gain insight into the initial findings from the research project, delve deeper into specific challenge areas and hear from key construction sector representatives on their innovation requirements.

To register, please follow the link:
https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/6d36294c-c968-480c-94d5-ce1235eae0cf/summary

Advanced Work Packaging Europe Conference 2022
2022-04-05 - 2022-04-06 | ILEC Centre, ILEC Centre, Lillie Rd, London, SW6 1UD, United Kingdom
*An in-person event with a virtual component for remote attendees
INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY & ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY WITH AWP
April 5-6, 2022 • 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day (BST)
Special networking reception from 5:00 to 7:00 PM on day one
ILEC Centre, London England
The AWP Conference connects thinkers and doers from the European construction industry for an exploration of how Advanced Work Packaging and related initiatives and technologies can improve project performance, construction productivity and environmental efficiency. This will bean information-packed two days of plenary and breakout sessions, keynote presentations, exhibits and networking events. Attendees of this event will be leaders from across the built environment representing project owners, engineers, constructors, technology providers, implementation support experts, researchers and developers.
The Advanced Work Packaging Conference is powered by the Construction Industry Institute(CII), and supported by the European Construction Institute (ECI). Since 2009, this has been the premiere forum for thought leadrship in Advanced Work Packaging and WorkFace Planning.

Collaborative Contracting Community webinar: Using Collaboration to Drive Optimal Capital Project Outcomes
2022-04-28 08:00 - 18:00 UTC
Our community of practitioners warmly welcomes you to the first in a series of three FREE community-based learning events about the use of Collaborative Working and Contracting practices and the application of a Project Collaboration Toolkit to maximize capital project outcomes.
This event is hosted by and delivered from the Collaborative Contracting Community of Practice. This FREE community gives its members an opportunity to access the relationships, knowledge resources and peer experience needed for overcoming barriers and capturing opportunities to implement collaborative projects.
To register or find out more, please click below to download the event brochure:
Using Collaboration to Drive Optimal Capital Project Outcomes – Webinar Brochure

AWP Europe Community of Practice May Drop In
2022-05-09 14:30 - 16:30 UTC | Online
The AWP Conference is powered by the Construction Industry Institute(CII), and supported by the European Construction Institute (ECI).

The AWP Conference connects thinkers and doers from the European construction industry for an exploration of how Advanced Work Packaging and related initiatives and technologies can improve project performance, construction productivity and environmental efficiency. Attendees of this online event will be leaders from across the built environment representing project owners, engineers, constructors, technology providers, implementation support experts, researchers and developers.

CE Procurement Group Meeting - Procuring SMEs
2022-05-11 09:30 - 11:30 UTC | Online
In our May Procurement Group Meeting, we will be looking at the tricky issues of procuring SMEs and providing access to opportunities. We will have input from Shona Snow from LHC on the work they have done with Southwark Council on engaging local micro-businesses and Mark Beirne from SME Cara EPS.

Digital Drop In May - the Causes of Poor Interoperability
2022-05-12 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | online
For a long time, Constructing Excellence has talked about the importance of shared systems and processes to successful collaboration. Organisations need reliable information to support decision making. However, in the construction and asset management industries, software often fails to facilitate this. Poor interoperability can make it hard for partners to collaborate; it can also make it hard for asset owners to control the data they need to operate their assets.
CE’s May 2022 Digital Dropin will discuss the causes of poor interoperability, the challenges it creates, and steps being taken to improve how information is securely exchanged between people and the systems they use. The Government & Industry Interoperability Group (GIIG) aims to help the built environment industry deliver, and benefit from, interoperable information. Paul Wilkinson, who leads one of the GIIG’s workstreams, will talk about proposals to develop a Technologies Code of Practice for Interoperable Information.

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Collaborative Working Mentors June 2022
2022-06-16 08:30 - 10:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Join us on 16th June to talk about Collaborative Working in 2022!

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CE Procurement Group Meeting June - Constructing the Golden Standard
2022-06-21 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online
In June we will be joined by David Mosey who will be going into detail on the work he has been doing around Collaborative Procurement including Constructing the Gold Standard, Building Safety Procurement Guidance and much more.

Digital Drop In June - Award winner
2022-06-23 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | online
The pace and uptake of digital technologies in the sector are developing apace. The Constructing Excellence Digital Group will be holding informal ‘Digital Drop-Ins’ usually on the third week of every month to provide members with an opportunity to share ideas, best practice and seek advice around the key issues impacting our digital journey.
Hear from the winner of our Digital Construction Award and find out how digital is being used to drive better outcomes.

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AWP Europe Community of Practice June Drop In
2022-06-28 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online

CE Procurement Group Meeting July - Project 13 Capable Owner
2022-07-13 10:30 - 11:30 UTC | online
This short session will explore the Project 13 Capable Owner Project 13 Home – Project 13. We will be joined by Lucy Howard, UK Head of Infrastructure Markets at Turner & Townsend and Co-Chair of the Capable Owner Workstream and Andrew Page, Head of Commercial Services at Anglian Water. This will be an opportunity find out the latest developments on the Capable Owner and how it is being implemented.

Digital Drop In July - Award winner case study - Construct.XR
2022-07-14 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | online
The pace and uptake of digital technologies in the sector are developing apace. The Constructing Excellence Digital Group will be holding informal ‘Digital Drop-Ins’ usually on the third week of every month to provide members with an opportunity to share ideas, best practice and seek advice around the key issues impacting our digital journey.
For this session, we have James Lee Burgess from Urban XR, presenting us with the award winning project – Construct.XR. It is a truly innovative collaborative project that engages constructors, consultants and students in the future of the industry; and how technology and mixed reality will change the way buildings are designed, enhanced and delivered.
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Digital Drop In July – Award winner case study – Construct.XR Tickets, Thu 14 Jul 2022 at 10:00 | Eventbrite

Collaborative Working Mentors September 2022
2022-09-15 08:30 - 10:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Join us on 15th September to talk about Collaborative Working in 2022!

CE Performance Measurement
2022-10-12 14:30 - 16:30 UTC | online
An opportunity to share your views and insights into this area.

At the Performance Measurement Forum in October 2022 we will be re-launching our focus on Performance Measurement – more exciting details to follow!

Join us for a productive discussion, bring your vision and suggestions on the subject.
Please let us know at helpdesk@constructingexcellence.org.uk if you have any further questions.

Digital Drop In October - Digital by Default
2022-10-13 10:00 - 11:30 (Europe/London) | Online
Hear from David Philp, he will give an overview of the impact that the Construction Innovation Hub research has had on the digital agenda.
Digital is ubiquitous. It is no longer a special, intangible thing reserved for people with digital or BIM in their job title. We are all to a greater or lesser extent digitally-enabled. The Constructing Excellence Digital Group has moved from being about BIM to Digital Construction to now looking at the implementation of digital in all its forms into construction and the built environment.
The CE Digital Group aims to provide a safe space to exchange ideas and challenges, share best practice and explore emerging technologies and their practical application in the construction context. Whatever your level of digital maturity from just about able to join a zoom call to a digital ninja, the CE digital group provides a trusted, safe-space to gain insight, ask questions and consider how you can better implement digital approaches in your projects and organisation.

Exploring a Platform Approach at the Forge - Site Visit
2022-10-19 08:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | The Forge, 57 Southwark Street, Southwark, London, SE1 0AL, United Kingdom
Sir Robert McAlpine is hosting the CE Manufacturing & Technology Group at the ground-breaking Forge project.
The Forge is a 139,000 square foot, high-quality office development, comprising two buildings set to be finished to Cat A – not too unusual a proposition for central London. But its construction is anything but routine: it’s the world’s first large-scale office scheme to be built using a standardised “kit of parts”, an approach known as platform design for manufacture and assembly (P-DfMA). Visit: Changing the face of construction at The Forge – Sir Robert McAlpine (srm.com)
CE Members will have a unique opportunity to see the platform approach in action, find out more from the team behind this ground-breaking project and consider how this could be applied on future projects.

Collaborative Working Mentors October 2022
2022-10-26 10:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | The Coffee House & library – RSA House, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ
Join the Collaborative Working Mentors to discuss all the latest progress and best practice in Collaborative Working.
This will be a face to face meeting. The meeting will be held in the Collaboration Room.

CE Performance Measurement – Online event
2022-11-04 09:30 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Performance Measurement
At the Performance Measurement Forum in November 2022 we will be re-launching our focus on Performance Measurement!
We will be joined by Simon Cross, Director at Mott MacDonald. Join us for a productive online discussion, bring your vision and suggestions on the subject.

“Simon Cross is a Director at Mott MacDonald focusing on accelerating construction transformation with clients by deploying digital, MMC, DfMA and delivery models to improve productive and sustainable outcomes. Formerly, he was Innovation and Digital Director with Cast Consulting and led BRE’s strategic advisory group, and latterly Smartsite, a Software as a Service business.”

Digital by Default Series – December – Online event
2022-12-08 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | Online
Digital by Default Series
Digital is ubiquitous. It is no longer a special, intangible thing reserved for people with digital or BIM in their job title. We are all to a greater or lesser extent digitally-enabled. The Constructing Excellence Digital Group has moved from being about BIM to Digital Construction to now looking at the implementation of digital in all its forms into construction and the built environment.
The CE Digital Group aims to provide a safe space to exchange ideas and challenges, share best practice and explore emerging technologies and their practical application in the construction context. Whatever your level of digital maturity from just about able to join a zoom call to a digital ninja, the CE digital group provides a trusted, safe-space to gain insight, ask questions and consider how you can better implement digital approaches in your projects and organisation.
Join us online in December, where we will be looking at digital tracking information including input from Rachel Heaton at GS1 on the application of barcode standards in construction, James Franklin from Kier on implementing tracking from design to installation and an update on Tag and Track technology.

Procurement Group Meeting- Online Event
2022-12-12 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Online
The Constructing Excellence Procurement Group brings together a highly knowledgeable group of our members who are committed to delivering better procurement. Up until now, the focus has been on ‘Procuring for Value’, which will remain a theme, while growing to include the public procurement process and other issues facing the built environment sector.
In considering the current challenges within construction, the Constructing Excellence Procurement Group, and wider members, hope to develop a better picture of ‘good practice’ to enable improvements within procurement.
Catch up on our last meeting here.
Join us to give your views on this important matter and help to shape a better future for the construction sector or get in touch to find out more.

Collaborative Working Mentors December 2022
2022-12-15 08:30 - 10:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Join us on 15th December to discuss the traditional process of a build project and how it can be improved. We will be using the draft created in the last meeting to build a robust process that will bring about a more modern way of completing projects.
Register now to attend and give your input into this important topic!

CE Performance Measurement – Online event
2023-01-13 09:30 - 11:30 (Europe/London) | Online
At the Performance Measurement Forum in January 2023, we will be following on from our previous meetings, where we will look at the outputs from our workshops. We will be joined by Simon Cross, Director at Mott MacDonald.

Join us for a productive online discussion, bring your vision and suggestions on the subject. More exciting details on this event to follow….
“Simon Cross is a Director at Mott MacDonald focusing on accelerating construction transformation with clients by deploying digital, MMC, DfMA and delivery models to improve productive and sustainable outcomes. Formerly, he was Innovation and Digital Director with Cast Consulting and led BRE’s strategic advisory group, and latterly Smartsite, a Software as a Service business.”

Thriving through Uncertainty – Constructing Excellence Conference 2023
2023-01-25 09:00 - 15:30 UTC | BMA House, London
Thriving Through Uncertainty:
Exploring the tools needed to see us through uncertain times.
Society has been through over two years of unprecedented disruption, stimulating irreversible change in how we live and work. In our new reality we are embracing digitalisation like never before, the need to tackle net zero and climate change is at the heart of government and business decision making. Global uncertainty is driving inflation, disrupting supply chains and creating a skills shortage.
The Construction Industry has been innovating like never before through initiatives like the Transforming Construction Challenge and the Construction Innovation Hub. The government through the Construction Playbook and changes to procurement regulations wants to see this innovation deployed at scale. We will be asking how do we implement this transformation.
This conference will bring together key influencers from across the Constructing Excellence movement and wider industry to consider how we harness this innovation and push for the transformation that will enable us to thrive in our new reality.

Presentations

Scaling up innovation and technology
Through the Transforming Construction Industry Strategy Challenge Fund over £400 million of public and private investment has been made in new construction products, technologies and techniques. What are those emerging technologies and how will they help us deliver better outcomes? How do we move from research, demonstration and pilots to commercial implementation?
Chair: Phil Wilbraham
Speakers:

Keith Waller, Construction Innovation Hub
Andreea Vihristencu, Asite/G4C
Karine Bartle, Wincanton
Dale Sinclair, WSP

Embracing a culture that allows people and organisations to thrive
How do we create a culture that embraces innovation? How do we finally crack the cultural issues that make it difficult to attract and retain talent in the construction industry? How do we unlock the collaborative culture that is the foundation of Constructing Excellence?
Chair: David Whysall
Speakers:

Lydia McGuinness, Wates/G4C
Tracey Collins, Kier
Jennifer Castle, LHC
Eloise Francis, BRE

Thriving commercially – the foundations for success
Successful transformation needs to be a commercial success. How do we move away from short-term, transactional approaches to deliver thriving organisations and supply chains, based on sound commercial relationships?
Chair: Nia Stewart, Burges Salmon
Speakers:

Scott Tacchi, Sir Robert McAlpine
David Mosey, Kings College Law
Sesitwa Mohlala, Turner & Townsend
Raynee De Zoysa, Collida
Lisa Kelvey, KPMG

Agenda

See our brochure to find out more about tickets and sponsorship opportunities.

Sponsors
We’d like to say a big thank you to our sponsors, Burges Salmon and Construction Innovation Hub.

Confirmed Speakers:

Performance Measurement
2023-02-24 09:30 - 11:30 (Europe/London) | Online
The Performance Measurement group will be meeting to continue exploring different measures and tools available and how they can be used/ what they’re good for.
Join us for a productive online discussion, bring your vision and suggestions on the subject.
