Do you want to learn more about accessing innovation?
Attend the LBPC Innovation Event on 5th July at UClan
Do you want to tell the world about your innovative product or service?
Exhibit at the LBPC Innovation Event on 5th July at UClan
Details and flyers on the Events Page. Be there and be seen to be innovative. Numbers will be limited so reserve your place now!
The recent article on BSF schools and local business was incorrectly accredited to Miles Barter, when in fact it was written by Andrew Bond of Catalyst Lend Lease. Thanks guys.
Business opportunities still exist even if you have not been selected for working within frameworks, but you may need to change your strategies to secure business.
Attend this Lancashire Best Practice Club event for expert advice and support.
June14th
Register on line here: http://tinyurl.com/356t6h
Download flyer Life After Frameworks
I am off for a week so no posts or news items for a while. In the meanwhile however two actions
1. The Construction Best Practice Club steering group meet on the 6th June to plan the next half of this years events. What topics and type of events would you like to see? Please leave your comments here.
2 You can now receive these news items by email – sign up on the panel on the right.
Flyer for the 14th June event now available on the Events Page
Once again we have had to shift events to avoid clashes and to enable better timing with other events and programmes in the North West
The Bidding to Win event will be moved to later in the year. Those who have expressed and interest in attending will be offered (part funded through CKE) in house training or coaching options. More Details
Life After Frameworks – June 14th More Details
Innovation – Hosted by UCLAN – 5th July More Details
We are also now able to offer two further one day (part funded by CKE ) events:
July 12th – What is Sustainability? – An introduction to sustainability, to help you improve your understanding of sustainability management, apply sustainable management approaches to your operations and activities and to prepare for emerging sustainability issues. More Details
July 18th – Modern Construction Project Management – Managing todays construction projects with open book accounting, supply chains, framework supplier, lean management and other topical initiative now expected by clients. More Details
and
September 20th AGM and Question Time Event
For further details on these and others – keep a watch on the Events Page
Constructing Excellence plan to start an on-line KPI initiative next month that will give organisations an annual endorsement mark to show they are using industry KPIs. It will be known as KPI Mark
Reported in Contract Journal:
CE stressed that although the scoring system was not a form of accreditation, it said clients could use the scheme as a method of pre-qualification.
“It is an ambition that clients will ask firms for their mark,” said CE consultant Martin Print. “Longer term, I can see this happening as clients are now requiring firms to demonstrate their performance.”
CE director Peter Cunningham agreed and said local authorities were already in discussions with CE about adopting its KPI
Constructing Excellence KPI’s have been in existence for many years now – following the issue of the Egan Report Rethinking Construction, giving ample opportunity for organisations to monitor and benchmark performance against industry over time.
More details on the KPI’s can be found on the KPI Zone at Constructing Excellence.
In addition local support for using KPI’s is available through fairsnape and others within the Lancashire Best Practice Club – see steering group profiles
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STOP PRESS
The Life After Frameworks event has been postponed to avoid clashes with other events in the same area, and is currently rescheduled for the 14th June at the same venue ( Globe, Accrington)
Watch the Club Events page on this site for information on this event and the other events such as
Bidding To Win (7/8 June) and
Innovation (5th July)
Build affordable eco-homes in designated “green towns”. Gordon Brown pledges to build 200,000 new homes a year, including five new “eco-towns” including up to 100,000 low carbon or carbon neutral homes powered by
locally-generated energy from sustainable sources to be built on
old industrial brownfield sites
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Two publications from the NWDA that should get your attention:
A useful guide from the Business Resource Efficiency & Waste Programme (BREW) in the Northwest.
This booklet will give you the contacts and tools to enable you to access the support that you need to rise to the challenge, help the planet and save your organisation money.
and
The Northwest Climate Change Action Plan sets out a Vision towards 2010 and action plans for our region
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First from today’s Guardian
Last month was officially the warmest April since records began in 1659, meteorologists confirmed today.
Al Gore speaking at the Think 07 yesterday told the Tale of Two Planets: Earth and Venus, both approx the same size and surprisingly both with the same total levels of CO2. The difference is CO2 on Earth is contained mainly in the ground and other matter , where as on Venus it exists in the air. This results in temperatures being on average a pleasant 15 deg C on Earth and a blistering 450 deg C on Venus.
And globally the construction industry continues digging into the earth, releasing more CO2 into the air. Gulp. Time for rethink ….
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