The Construction Innovation Hub focuses on these key themes, as it seeks to address the way buildings and infrastructure are procured, designed, delivered and operated with the context of a Design for Value approach.. Industry partners.
It’s an encouraging shift, because we won’t achieve these goals simply by taking the lowest price, transferring risks down the supply chain, and using arcane procurement practices.We need to see this recently accelerated pace of change continue, and perhaps go even further, as the government sets out its plans to drive an economic recovery through the way it invests in construction infrastructure..
The Construction Playbook - making it possible.The Construction Playbook has been a fantastic example of how quickly it’s possible to move.Here you have people working in new circumstances, each with their own business imperatives, and yet the government was able to get the public and private sector together to create this document, to galvanise industry and achieve that level of buy-in.
This was made possible by the fact that the COVID-19 crisis has brought the industry together.The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and the officials in The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) worked closely to forge a much better link between government and industry.
We’ve seen the CLC successfully deal with things like keeping construction sites open and the launch of the talent retention scheme.
All of this has given industry a new, unified voice in government; an important step for a sector which hasn’t necessarily been widely listened to in the past..The second important aspect to consider is value itself.
In other words, what do you value about the outcome?When we talk about value, people tend to focus on economic factors like cost and return on investment (ROI).
However, value is actually much more than that.It includes things such as the expected lifetime of components and materials, the wellbeing of the workforce, and the impact on the environment and climate change.
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