Market enablers to unlock the value toolkit

John Handscomb is a partner at specialist consultancy Akerlof. John will lead the engagement workstream to ensure the supply chain has a voice within the formation of the toolkit. John is delighted to lead a project that sets out to create a broader understanding of value beyond price and has many parallels with the thinking behind Akerlof who shares it’s name with George Akerlof a Nobel Prize winning economist. His seminal paper, Market for Lemons, demonstrated the consequence of adverse selection under conditions of quality uncertainty and unequal information between buyers and sellers; a 50-year-old concept that continues to retain parallels within the construction industry that I hope the value toolkit will go some way to re –address.  

Sesitwa Mohlala is a Cost Manager at Turner & Townsend. Sesitwa will be leading on the engagement of the insurances work package within the Market enablers workstream. Sesitwa’s multi-disciplinary experience has seen him work for various industry clients such as Anglian Water @OneAlliance, The Environment Agency and Heathrow Airport Limited. As a result, Sesitwa has been involved in collaborative procurement and commercial environments which have delivered value. Sesitwa is excited to be joining the Constructing Excellence team and hopes to make a long-lasting impact in the UK Construction Sector. Through planned engagements with industry bodies and associations; and building a transparent relationship with the Supply Chain, Sesitwa sees the Value Toolkit as being a key success factor for the industry as a whole.

Rebecca Cutts is a Senior Quantity Surveyor at Rider Levett Bucknall and is leading on the contracts work package within Workstream 3, seeking guidance from leading industry experts as well supply chain members. Rebecca is excited to engaging with these key stakeholders within the industry, looking at how we can overcome certain contractual challenges, moving towards value driven, collaborative contracts that are in the best interest of the project. This is going to be an exciting challenge and definitely one we will all learn from.

Prof David Mosey is Director of the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at Kings College. David is world-renowned for his work on improving procurement and contractual techniques for project delivery. David brings to the project his extensive experience and research capability focussing on the interdisciplinary relationships of construction law with the evolving practices of procurement and project management. This includes research into partnering, alliancing, joint ventures and other models for collaborative working.

The King’s College London Centre of Construction Law is committed to creating integrated procurement and contractual systems that support improved value and reduced risk. We are glad to support the development of the Value Toolkit and to work with Constructing Excellence on the Market Enablers workstream.

Prof Peter McDermott is Professor of Construction Management at the University of Salford. The way that construction is organised, managed and procured has a significant impact on our environment. Peter’s teaching, research and professional activities are focused on this and around a determination to make a difference to the built environment/sectors that we serve. Peter’s key areas of research include strategies for the Construction and Infrastructure Sectors, Strategic Procurement, Sustainable Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Social Value. Peter will ensure that the project effectively builds the existing body of evidence and uses effective research processes.

Itai Kagodora (Project Manager) is a Project Manager with the Construction Innovation Hub (CIH) and he is assigned to the Hub’s capex projects. Itai is a project management professional responsible for overseeing design, commercial, and project delivery activities for various development schemes throughout the project lifecycle.  Itai is also responsible for implementing and supporting Agile Scrum principles, values and processes. He is excited and very much looking forward to working on this project which will have a positive impact on supply chain processes and the built environment as a whole.

Alison Nicholl, Head of Constructing Excellence will represent the team on the Project Board for the overall value toolkit. Alison is passionate about improving the construction industry and has 18 years’ experience delivering knowledge transfer and industry change in the built environment sector. Alison is delighted that much of the groundwork on collaborative procurement that Constructing Excellence has championed over many years is being incorporated in to the Toolkit that has the potential to transform how we design, build and operate our built environment.