Our set-piece World Green Building Week event will tackle the topic of sustainable housing. With the quality of new building stock high on the agenda of policy-makers, nationally and locally, the evening will feature a lively discussion around what can be done to affect change at scale.
Constructing Excellence Manchester will once again be exhibiting at Healthcare Estates 2018, the unrivaled platform for Estate Managers, Directors, Facilities Managers etc to network with industry colleagues while sourcing and specifying the latest healthcare products and services.
Constructing Excellence Manchester and our valued members will once again be exhibiting at Education Estates 2018 taking place at Manchester Central on 16th and 17th October. At the Education Estates Exhibition the visitors and other attendees are key decision makers responsible for the whole spectrum of education facilities; from village primary … Continue reading "Education Estates 2018"
This seminar, with Tony Woodford of BRE, will consider the whole life issues and choices which need to be informed by these considerations and look at the latest guidance to help us to understand the process of responsible sourcing and specification of products used in the construction industry, considering a framework for the organisational governance, supply chain management and environmental and social aspects that must be addressed in order to ensure their effective delivery.
Our first event of 2019 will look at the recently launched digital tool "The Quality Tracker" by the RIBA, CIOB and RICS.
Over the next 25 years it is expected that around 650,000 houses will be built in the North of England with £75bn investment planned. This presents challenges as well as opportunities – increased carbon emissions, flood risk and pollution as well as loss of habitats and green spaces where people can unwind.
Constructing Excellence Manchester will be co-hosting an event with BIM Regions NW focussing on Standards, following the release of ISO 19650 (superseding BS1192-1 & PAS1192-2), and Product Data following the release of the UK BIM Alliance report ‘Product data, state of the nation’. We will have speakers from CoBuilder, the BSI and the UK BIM Alliance so don’t miss this important update.
As well as looking good and being well constructed, a project team should ensure the built asset does what the client and end-users want. The Procuring for Value report, commissioned by the Construction Leadership Council as part of the sector deal to modernise construction, comes when change is in the air and begins a dialogue … Continue reading "Procuring for Value – A change in approach to secure a better future for the construction industry."
This seminar, presented by our chair Roger Burton, an architect and member of the RIBA Ethics and Sustainable Development Commission, will consider what the Plan means for our industry, what action we can take now and over the next five years to put our built environment on the path towards achieving Manchester’s ambitions.
Those in the construction sector often suggest that Diversity and Inclusion is perceived as Health and Safety was a couple of decades ago, recognised as being a valuable attribute but not universally accepted as core to the value of businesses and the sector. The tide is changing and more and more leaders expect their employees, partners and suppliers to not only get the business case for inclusion but drive inclusion.
