Construction Robotics User Day Join Constructing Excellence for a visit to the Trimble offices in Leeds, to explore robotics and related technologies within construction. A hands-on experience – don’t miss out on this great opportunity! Trimble will be presenting and demonstrating their newest technology alongside some trusted technology partners, including HP. This will be a great opportunity to gain technical knowledge and insight from the UK’s key players in robotics technology for construction. You’ll have an opportunity, to get up close and personal with a few of the robots, with an exclusive......
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Performance Measurement 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. 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…. ...
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Offsite – HMP Full Sutton *This is an invite only event* Constructing Excellence will be offering an opportunity to visit HMP Full Sutton, more info to follow. To register your interest, please contact: helpdesk@constructingexcellence.org.uk ...
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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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