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Category Archives: benchmarking
Innovation Voucher Provision
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is making Innovation Vouchers available worth up to £5000 for construction and built environment companies. Applications are due to open on the 10th of December and close on the 23rd of January 2013. Fairsnape in association with IBE-Partnership is delighted … Continue reading
Posted in benchmarking, best practice, fairsnape, improvement, social media, sustainability, winning work
Tagged benchmarking, bidding, BIM, collaborative working, Construction Carbon, CSR, Customer Management, EFQM, innovation vouchers, ISO14001, last planner, lean construction, PAS 2030, social media, Strategy, sustainability
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2008 KPI’s
Constructing Excellence issue 2008 KPI data The latest UK Construction Industry KPI data is now available interactive and on-line at KPIzone (http://www.kpizone.com). Supported by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), KPIzone contains over 700 graphs and charts, … Continue reading
Posted in benchmarking, construction, improvement, News, open source
Tagged constructing excellence, kpis, Sustainabile Construction Strategy
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Manage best in class innovation – free webcast
Learning from and sharing with other sectors is important to overall improvement. Colleagues at the Benchmarking Institute have highlighted the following Managing Best in Class Innovation web cast scheduled for Jan 24th , hosted through the Automotive News, but the … Continue reading






sustainable connectivity
A new look for isite with a new image on the top banner(*). I like this design as it includes a RSS button – to get isite delivered to your desktop, and a search facility to search back through isite … Continue reading →