Join the Constructing Excellence Climate Action theme group for their next meeting on Thursday 14th November. November’s session will focus on Construction Waste Management with input from the Construction Waste Portal and SmartWaste....
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Join the Constructing Excellence Climate Action theme group for their next meeting on Thursday 5th September, Chaired by Annette Boren. This session will focus on ‘Framing Carbon Action’. With climate transition mentioned in corporate action, frameworks and policy, what are the fundamentals of climate transition, and how can it help in practice? An interactive introduction with opportunities for discussion. This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy....
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Join the Constructing Excellence Climate Action theme group for their next meeting on Tuesday 11th June, Chaired by Annette Boren. The annual embodied carbon emissions stemming from the construction, maintenance, and demolition of buildings equates to 40-50 million tonnes of CO2 – more than emissions from aviation and shipping combined. To evaluate the industry’s trajectory, Akerlof have reviewed the top 30 UK Tier 1 contractors to understand their carbon maturity. Join us to learn about a key findings and the organisational, project and ecosystem actions that are needed to help the industry meet......
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Join the Constructing Excellence Climate Action theme group for their next meeting on Thursday 1st February, Chaired by Annette Boren. As a group we will explore the actions we can take to make a positive impact on current climate challenges. During the call, we’ll be joined by our Net Zero Award winners for 2023, Morgan Sindall Construction and Infrastructure and Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. Our guests Chris Jones (Building and Property Services Manager, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council) and David Evans (Senior Design Manager, Morgan Sindall) have kindly offered to join us,......
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Event Summary This online focus group is the first in a series of roundtable and webinar events on the theme of Sustainable and Decarbonised Construction produced in partnership between the Institution of Mechanical Engineers – Construction & Building Services Division, Constructing Excellence, and COMIT. The purpose of these events is to bring together engineers and project professionals to network and go-see, share knowledge, discuss ideas, and set joint actions around the Sustainable and Decarbonised Construction programme focus areas, themes, and the construction value chain. During this session we will be specifically seeking to......
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Constructing Excellence is partnering with colleagues UKGBC and IOM3 for an exploratory roundtable on the role that platforms can play in enabling the circular economy. Platforms and standardised approaches have a huge role to play in delivering quality and productivity and will play a huge role in enabling manufacturers to innovate products that deliver genuine value for end-users. Circularity is one of the eight core principles set out in the Construction Innovation Hub’s Platform Rulebook*. ‘To ensure that products have been designed for disassembly, repair, or reuse at the end of use......
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The Collaborative Working Mentors will be meeting on 20th March to continue providing insight and inspiration on how to work collaboratively within the construction industry. Their recent work around Collaborative Alliancing and modernising the traditional build model will feed into this meeting and create a basis for discussion around the importance of collaboration and how to effectively achieve it. Further details will follow shortly. ...
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The Collaborative Working Mentors will be meeting on 17th January to continue providing insight and inspiration on how to work collaboratively within the construction industry. The Agenda for the meeting is as below: Introductions Update on ISO 44001 (Paul Greenwood) Frameworks – Ascertaining organisational (Bidder) maturity – base line assessment methodology (Andrew Thomas) Preparation for Collaborative Alliancing roundtable 13/3/24 (Alison Nicholl) Agenda for next meeting 20/3/24 Schedule of meetings AOB ...
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Energy Transition is here – reports indicate political will, technological evolution, government investment support, investor interest and commitment, and project development and delivery have taken a significant leap forward. But little is said about how projects are delivered and the corresponding contracting arrangements. Constructing Excellence and ECI will be hosting a year long series of events to address the Energy Transition revolution and we welcome your participation! Join us for the next session in this series, which will focus on Effective Information Management and Communication. More information about this session will follow......
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The Constructing Excellence Procurement Group brings together a highly knowledgeable group of our members who are committed to delivering better procurement. Rebecca is a partner and Head of Public Procurement at the international law firm, Trowers & Hamlins, and is a leading national expert in public procurement law, consistently ranked as among the world’s leading government contracts lawyers. Procurement and the Golden Thread We will be running a session with Amanda Stubbs, partner at Trowers and Hamlins and Dr Bola Abisogun OBE, Founder & Chief Excitement Officer, Digital Twin Skills Academyto explore MHCLG’s Procurement Advisory......
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