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Innovation – Shaping Tomorrow

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Attend the LBPC Innovation Event and have a chance of wining a years free membership to the club.  Sponsored by UCLAN

Free Innovation Event

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A reminder that the Lancashire Best Practice Club Innovation Event takes place tomorrow at UCLAN from 10.00am to 1.30 including lunch.

  • Learn the value of adopting construction best practice and innovation
  • Business opportunities and networking

Speakers

Dr Alexis Holden (Head, Research & Knowledge Transfer Unit, Faculty of Science & Technology, UCLan)

Terry Whitehead (BAE Systems)

Dr Will Swan, Project Manager (CCI NW) – The Need for Innovation?

Neil Middleton (Director, Maple Timber Frame of Langley) – The Importance of Innovation:
Maple Timber Frame Case Study, Winner of Be Inspired Business Awards (BIBA) for Innovation

Workshops

The Construction Knowledge Exchange Andrea Pye CKE
Accessing Information Martin Brown Fairsnape

Attend the event and claim your CPD hours and certificate

Free Innovation Event – be seen to be innovative

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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!

Rubble Trouble

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The following was noticed from UK Green Building Council

50%
Percentage of UK greenhouse gas emissions from running buildings…

30%
…of those emissions could be cut by cheap and simple measures

10%
Percentage of UK emissions coming from producing building materials…

20% …of those materials on every new building ends up in a skip…

88
…producing in a year enough waste to build 88 Great Pyramids of Giza.

Hence the need for the Lancashire Best Practice Club Innovation Event on 5th July ( have you reserved your place yet?)

Another green summit for construction

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Following the very successful Think conference and initiative, – Construction News is launching its Green Week – Summit and Awards programme – scheduled for September. Nominations for awards close soon though.

Recently the concept of sustainability has moved from being an ill-defined industry buzzword to become perhaps the single most important issue that will face the industry over the years to come. Concepts such as energy efficiency, carbon emissions and reduction of construction waste can no longer be ignored.

EVENT: Life After Frameworks

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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

 

Your actions – I’m taking a break

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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

LCBPC Events Update

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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

Events

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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)