Emerging Prospects as a result of Government Policies – Low Carbon, BIM and Procurement
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AGM Yorkshire and Humber Construction Best Practice Club
Slides from this event can be found here Don Ward for Yorkshire Club 30 Nov 11
Date: 30th November 2011, 4:30 for a 5pm start
Venue: Old Broadcasting House, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9EN
Speaker Don Ward Constructing Excellence
Emerging Prospects as a result of Government Policies – Low Carbon, BIM and Procurement
Don will set the scene on the trends in the sector, consider the effects of the recession and discuss the emerging prospects as a result of Government policies including the low carbon economy, Building Information Modeling and Management, and procurement. He will go on to describe Constructing Excellence’s response to these drivers, drawing on the ‘Never waste a good crisis’ report.
Don is national Chief Executive of Constructing Excellence. He specialises in industry change, supply chain integration and collaborative working. He has over twenty years experience of best practice and change programmes. Previous roles include Chief Executive of the Design Build Foundation and a five year stint as Chief Executive of the Construction Industry Board, which was set up to implement the 1994 “Latham Report”. His first ten years were spent at the Building Research Establishment working on low energy buildings.
Proposals from Constructing Excellence and how these could benefit our club
Don will outline the proposals from Constructing Excellence to provide more support and consistency for the clubs as part of Constructing Excellence’s wider offering. We will then have a chance to debate the impact of these on our club, put forward any questions to Constructing Excellence and debate the proposal.
AGM Yorkshire and Humber Construction Best Practice Clubs
This is your opportunity to have your say in how the clubs are run and join the steering group if you like.
- Do you want to have a say in the type of events we run in 2012?
- Would you like to be part of the Steering Group?
- Would you like to get more involved with the West Yorkshire or Humber Clubs?
- Would a South Yorkshire and/or a North Yorkshire Club running events in those regions be of interest to you?
Then stay for the AGM and get involved.
Please note: Only members can vote or be elected to the steering committee.
The cost for attending the evening’s events is free to members and £10 for non-members. You can book your place at http://cbpcnov11.eventbrite.co.uk/ or by calling Louise on 07909 931 877
Building Information Modelling
A Case Study: The £60m Leeds Arena Project
Presented by BAM Construction Ltd
Venue: The Country Park Inn, Cliff Road, Hessle Foreshore, Hessle, HU13 0HB
Date: Tuesday 29th November 2011 8:30 am – 10:30 am
Building Information Modelling event presented by BAM Construction Ltd
The aim of this presentation will be to provide an understanding of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and how it is used to deliver benefits during the construction process, using the £60million Leeds Arena project as a specific case study.
The use of Building Information Modelling goes beyond the design phase of a project and takes an important role during the construction phase of a project as well as the post construction phases and facility management. The purpose of BIM is to make the construction process more efficient and eliminate as many uncertainties as possible before starting the construction process. Participants in the building process are constantly challenged to deliver successful projects despite tight budgets, limited manpower, accelerated schedules, and limited or conflicting information. The concept of Building Information Modelling is to build a building virtually prior to building it physically, in order to work out problems, and simulate and analyse potential impacts.
The Cabinet Office announced the Government’s new Construction Strategy on 31 May 2011 that included the Government’s intention to require collaborative 3D Building Information Modelling (BIM), with all project and asset information, documentation and data being electronic, on its projects by 2016.
Would you like to find out how this will impact on you and your company?
If so this is the event for you.
Speakers from BAM Construction: Steve Wheller, Design & Planning Director and Richard Beaumont, Design Manager
To book your place please contact Joss Watson on tel. no. 01482 395662 or email to jocelyn.watson@eastriding.gov.uk or by fax on 01482 395048.
5th October – Breakfast seminar: Changes to the Construction Act 1996 – the Addleshaw Goddard guide
Members of Addleshaw Goddard’s construction disputes team will summarise the amendments to the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, which take effect on 1 October 2011, discuss the key implications for your business and explain how not to fall foul of the amended adjudication, payment, suspension and notice provisions.
Also on 5th October – Our Timm Platts will be talking to the Leeds Curry Club about the importance of Best Practice in the Construction Industry and what we as an industry can do.
14th September – Breakfast Seminar - Teamwork not paperwork – the commercial case for CDM – speaker Tony Putsman
Tony told us that CDM is perceived differently by different people, but the general perception is that “it’s just Health and Safety isn’t it?”. He belives that most people see it as something that they have to do and that there are only a few people who are trying to use it to do something worthwhile and really make a difference.
Tony graduated from University at about the same time that the Health and Safety at work act came into effect, so he’s been able to watch the impact of legislation on ways of working within the industry. When the CDM regs were amended in 1997, he started to get excited about the difference they could make.
He talked to us about CDM from a commercial perspective – looking at 2 aspects
- The cost of getting it wrong
- The benefits of getting it right
He particularly wanted us to think about how we can use CDM to become more successful and give clients and even better service.
The HSE has prosecuted several big name companies in the last 12 months. These weren’t contractors as you might expect – they were clients who had failed to meet their duties under CDM. If accidents happen on site, the HSE are not following the path to see if the clinet is responsible as well as the contractor.
This has commercial implications for the contractor, who can use this as an opportunity to influence the client to make better decisions through taking into account their duties under CDM.
We talked a lot about how CDM may seem to be about systems and paperwork, but in reality it’s about people and culture and the impact of getting it wrong is to severely affect the lives of people – so we should do this because it is the right thing to do.
There are business reasons for getting Health and Safety right too. Tony gave us an example of the impact of one accident on site
- £360k investigation costs into what happened
- £30m+ civil claims for injury and equipment damage
- Breakdown of communications between the client, who is also being prosecuted
- Impact on bidding for future work
Lastly Tony talked about how we perceive construction projects. Most of the construction team is likely to be focused on the construction of the building. In reality the purpose of the building is to further the client’s business in some way. For every pound spent on construction, £5 is spent on maintenance and £200 is spent on business operating costs throughout the lifecycle of the business.
Yet we focus on the cost of construction and not the impact that we can have on the business in the long term. Thinking in this way affects how you approach H&S during the design and build processes.
Tony left us with the thought that
“if it goes wrong, you will be prosecuted not because it went wrong, but because you didn’t know what you were supposed to do. Do you know what you are supposed to do?”
Tony can be contacted at info@cttechnologies.co.uk
