Category Archives: events

MCG chair John Spanswick says supervisors not doing their job on site

Construction site supervisors are not sure about their role in terms of health and safety, are not being held accountable and are not supervising their workforce, says John Spanswick

This was reported in Contract Journal blog yesterday 1st March following more dangerous play videos reaching YouTubes

Do you agree – or disagree?  Do site supervisors really know what is going on on their contracts?

Post your views here – or attend the Elevate Improvement Module on the 6th March where impact of poor safety will be discussed. Check the Events page listings.

(Further details on this event from Fleur.Evans@elevate-eastlancs.co.uk)

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Public Procurement References

A number of references were mentioned during last night in presentations.

Transforming Government Procurement Link

Strategy for Sustianable Construction (Draft) Link

Review of Sustainable Construction 2006 – Summary

happy reading!

As was mentioned at the Public Procurement meeting there are a number of Construction Advisors within the club who can help you to make sense of these initiatives. Take a look at the Steering Group Profiles, or the Fairsnape Profile page for more information.

Public Procurement Event

Last nights club event on Public Procurement was well received with excellent presentations from Ron Eckersley Lancashire City Council and Nigel Curry, Helices

Chris Belfield from Smiths also shared their work on Managing Occupational Road Risk

Presentations in pdf format can be downloaded from the events page on this blog.

Please feel free to leave any comments, observations or views you may have on last nights presentations or discussions.

If you attended last nights event and are not a member of the club – you can downlaod a membership form from here.

Our next events include

Sustainability – Blackpool 22nd March 4pm

CDM – UCLAN Preston 27th March 5.30

Bidding to Win – UCLAN Preston 26th April 9.30 or 1.30

Details for future events can be found on the Events Page

Bidding To Win

Initial details and flyers for the 26th April event now posted on to the Events Page

HSE Construction Info-Net and CDM Events

Just received the CONSTRUCTION INFO-NET  from the HSE – if you haven’t signed up to this free email service it is well worth doing so.

The info-net report covers CDM 2007 UPDATE, CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS, (note this link for details of the CDM awareness seminars – one in the NW on the 20th March).

You can download the pdf from here .  HSE Construction Info-Net Feb 07


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Next Event – Public Procurement

Details of the next event can be found here.   Public Procurement Invite

Public Sector Procurement:

Meeting the Challenge

Over the next 4 years, central and local government is working on becoming more efficient. It wants to make savings in its procurement spend in the construction and facilities management sector. This move, an outcome of the Gershon Efficiency Review, will have a big impact on the UK construction industry and its supply chain – on anyone tendering for or working on any government contract.

Weds 28th Feb 4pm at Lancaster University.

Impact of Bad Practice

Following on from the post here regarding the publishing of videos on You Tube covering unacceptable safety behaviour and pranks, Building reports that Morrisons have suspened NGBailey, one of the organisations identified in the videos, from their framework contract that covers 149 stores. View video

Ouch

More details here

For your information the Elevate improvement module will cover this issue – the impact on reputation of bad practice, be it safety, DDA access or quality – on 6th March 2007 – details on the Events page

Events Update

Download the Club and related events schedule here – Note this schedule is in development and subject to change – so keep checking here !

Events Schedule 2007-1

Make a note of the next event in your diary:

6th Feb 2007 3pm – 5pm Respect for People

East Lancs Elevate Improvment Module – Free of Charge – Open to all

Contact for information: fleur.evans@elevate-eastlancs.co.uk

London Club Follow up

Useful inspiration and information regarding the London Club. Take a look at their website – in particular the events and committess page.

Also the flyer for their next event looks good LCEC Flyer

The following email was receievd by all attendees the day after the Question Time event.

Thank you to all of you that attended the London Constructing Excellence Club AGM and panel debate last night. It was a superb event and my thanks go out to our panel members: Tim Tapper of Cyril Sweett; Nelson Ogunshakin of the ACE; Charles Rich of Charles Rich Consultancy; Paul Greenwood of United House and Don Ward of Constructing Excellence as well as our chair for the night Andrew Carpenter of Constructing Excellence. Following last night’s event, I have pleasure in providing details of the next meeting of the Club. A flier is attached.

We are delighted to announce that the next Club meeting will feature a presentation from John Ioannou, Head of OGC’s Smarter Construction team, to provide an update on the work of OGC’s Public Sector Construction Client’s Forum (PSCCF), which is driving forward the public sector construction client improvement agenda through the Achieving Excellence in Construction initiative and the important work it is undertaking to analyse and manage public sector demand in relation to industry capacity.

The meeting, which will be back at our usual home, the London Capital Club, 15 Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BW. It will take place on 13 February and, as usual, registration is at 18.00 and we will begin at 18.30. Abchurch Lane is situated between King William Street and Cannon Street and is very close to Bank, Cannon Street and Monument Stations. A map can be found here: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=532763&y=180941&z=0&sv=EC4N+7BW&st=2&pc=EC4N+7BW&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

Change Management Event

Just had details through of CPN event on Change Management – Liverpool 8th Feb

Details here CPN Event