Collaborative Working Mentors Collaboration is core to Constructing Excellence’s mission and vision and yet its full potential remains elusive across the majority of the industry. This was highlighted by delegates at our recent conference Thriving Through Uncertainty. Therefore, we would like to invite you to join the Collaborative Working Mentors to examine Collaborative Alliancing and identify the success factors involved in its implementation. We will be evaluating different build models, identifying pros and cons to support the development of an improved method, and investigating how a maturity matrix/ 360 assessment could......
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Developing an Energy Transition Community of Practice – Unlocking productivity to deliver the infrastructure that will underpin our net zero future Constructing Excellence and ECI have long been champions of collaborative working and contracting. We propose to establish a community of practice involving the broadest spectrum of Net Zero participating organisations focussing on driving continual productivity improvement in the delivery of energy transition projects. The community will bring together existing approaches, signpost the great work being done by groups focussed on skills, technology and innovation and consider how these can be harnessed......
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Procurement Group meeting The Constructing Excellence Procurement Group brings together a highly knowledgeable group of our members who are committed to delivering better procurement. During our Procurement group meeting in December, we will be building on the concept of Procurement as an enabler with Rebecca Rees. Our latest Procurement Group meeting took place in September this year, the outputs from our meeting, can be found here: R-Rees-Constructing-Excellence-Procurement-Group.pdf (constructingexcellence.org.uk) Rebecca is a partner and Head of Public Procurement at the international law firm, Trowers & Hamlins, and is a leading national expert in public......
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Performance Measurement 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,......
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*This is an invite only event* Major Projects The challenges of attracting and retaining talent is a major issue impacting the delivery of major projects. Approaches around Equality, Diversity & Inclusion have a huge impact on appealing to a wider cohort of talent and retaining that talent within the industry. At this session we will be joined by some of the finalists of the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Category at this year’s Constructing Excellence Awards (By December we will know who the winner is!) We also have Kier confirmed who will be......
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Collaborative Working Mentors: Improving the ‘Traditional Process’ Last month, the Collaborative Working Mentors group met to discuss the ‘traditional process’ of a build project (see image below). The aim was to examine how this process can be adapted to bring about improvements to the way a project is developed, from it’s conception to completion. Please see the link below to revisit the output from our last Collaborative Working Mentors meeting. Collaborative Working Mentors: Improving the ‘Traditional Process’ – Constructing Excellence The purpose of the next meeting is to further develop/conclude the proposed......
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AWP Europe CoP Drop in 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 event will be leaders from across the built environment representing project owners, engineers, constructors, technology providers, implementation support experts, researchers and developers. We will be looking at the latest developments in Advanced Work Packaging and sharing news, knowledge and insight. ECI is collaborating with Group ASI to deliver an insight into......
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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......
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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......
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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,......
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