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News in pictures
CLT advocates defiant over combustible ban
Proponents of structural timber have told CM that including the material in the government’s ban on combustibles for buildings over 18m is wrong. Anthony Thistleton, founding partner of Waugh Thistleton Architects, which has used cross-laminated timber (CLT) widely on projects (including Sugar House Island in east London, pictured), said: “The inclusion of CLT within this ban is not merited by the evidence. We are now working closely with the industry to try to get a ban that is more reflective of the risk.” However, Tim Carey, national product director at Willmott Dixon, warned that it was becoming “difficult” to get insurance for engineered timber. He told CM the contractor was recently unable to get cover to build a 15-storey CLT tower block. As the material was a requirement for the customer’s architect, Willmott Dixon had to decline the opportunity. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we start to see exclusion clauses relating to CLT appearing in insurance documents,” Carey added. See Timber, p28-31. Sugar House Island in east London, designed by Waugh Thistleton Architects, uses cross-laminated timber
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ISG wins Lord’s stands deal News in quotes ISG has won a deal to build two stands at Lord’s cricket ground in London “If I had known then in a redevelopment scheme worth £50m, after Westminster City Council what I know now, granted full planning permission to Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). I would have set the ISG will construct two new three-tier stands to replace the existing fire alarm off.” Compton and Edrich stands. The redevelopment of the stands forms Crossrail chief the second phase of the ground’s updated masterplan. executive Mark Wild tells members of the London Assembly that the delayed Crossrail is far more complicated than anyone realised and a December 2018 opening would have been impossible.
“My bill would not only protect small businesses from losing money owed to them should the tier one supplier become insolvent, as Carillion did, but stop small businesses being paid late by large companies.” HS2 installs Kier trials four-wheeled robot Labour MP Debbie Abrahams on her bill Euston crane Kier is one of three international contractors trialling to make project bank new robotic technology designed to automate The first tower crane accounts mandatory on onsite progress tracking and check for health and to be used on the public sector projects safety hazards. The four-wheeled robot, developed HS2 project has been over £500,000, which by European start-up Scaled Robotics, is fitted with erected in London. has a second reading, a range of sensors that enable it to manoeuvre The 66m-high scheduled for 1 March. crane was delivered autonomously around a building site and capture detailed 3D survey scans and panoramic photos of to Euston station and “I would like to ongoing construction. Online software then compares assembled over four know when we the 3D as-built survey information days in January. It is might get back to a against the original BIM model the first of three in the normal functioning to identify any discrepancies or Euston area and comes government.” deviations from the design. ahead of the demolition Balfour Beatty chief of One Euston Square executive Leo Quinn and Grant Thornton voices his frustration House, which stand with the uncertainty above the entrance around Brexit, following and exit to Euston’s old the defeat of prime underground taxi rank. minister Theresa Expected to take May’s EU withdrawal around 10 months to agreement in parliament complete, their in January. removal will be the biggest change to the Euston skyline for almost 50 years.
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£89.7m The rising cost Data of cladding replacement
Where do UK In January, details emerged of how the construction £56m cost of replacing cladding on five buildings on the products come from? Chalcots Estate in London has risen fourfold: January 2018: Cost of a solid aluminium panel Construction imports could suffer in the system for all five blocks estimated to cost £22m. event of a no-deal Brexit, as it emerged that 60.5% of all products on UK projects March 2018: Scope of works extended to full came from the EU in 2017. replacement of curtain wall system. Cost estimated at £31m. Cladding cost revised £22m upwards to £25m. Total cost: £56m.
January 2019: Council documents reveal that Wates’ initial tender for the works totals £89.7m after the scope of the project was progressed again, with engineers establishing a specification for an A1-rated fire safety system as well as other works. JANUARY 2018 MARCH 2018 JANUARY 2019
39.5% Non-EU imports Prompt payment?
60.5% The Cabinet Office is responsible Financial year 2018/19 EU imports for developing prompt payment n Percentage invoices paid within 5 days policy in the public sector but n Percentage invoices paid within 30 days figures show it failed to meet its own target of paying 80% of undisputed invoices within five 0% 100% days and 100% within 30 days. It blamed a new finance system and said it was confident of
SOURCE: BEIS meeting future targets.
News in numbers
52% 15% 347 0 3m 600 The proportion of the Proportion of high-rise The number of new The number of Crossrail The number of new The number of years the top 150 UK contractors residential and publicly modular homes to be stations that would social and council Temple area of the City still confident in the owned buildings where built in Birkenhead have been ready by homes needed across of London has housed future, despite fears cladding remediation as part of a £55m JV the planned December England according to a barristers, where Sir about a return of so- is complete 18 months between Peel and opening, according to cross-party commission Robert McAlpine will called “suicide bidding”, on from the Grenfell Urban Splash. Crossrail CEO Mark Wild. and housing charity oversee refurbishment according to a survey Tower disaster. Shelter. of the Inner Temple, one by law firm CMS. of the four Inns of Court.
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The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) commission’s work, the forthcoming Code MPs join CIOB launched a new report aimed at improving of Quality Practice. quality in the built environment in front “Today we are announcing the launch of a for launch of MPs and senior industry figures. consultation on the code,” he said, adding that The report, Improving Quality in the the intention behind this was to set standards Built Environment, was presented at a for the industry to achieve and “provide of quality drive parliamentary reception hosted by Eddie practitioners with the tools and processes PARLIAMENTARY RECEPTION Hughes MP. needed to deliver quality on construction WELCOMES INSTITUTE’S MPs and industry figures heard about the projects”. He concluded by saying: “There is LATEST PUBLICATION outcomes of the CIOB’s Construction Quality never an excuse for poor quality.” Commission, which was set up to identify what Roberta Blackman-Woods, MP for the City promotes or prevents delivery of quality in of Durham and shadow minister for housing, construction and the steps needed to bring communities and local government, added her about change. voice to the debate. She welcomed the CIOB’s Hughes, MP for Walsall North, said that 30 report, saying: “I think the work you are doing years ago industry standards were somewhat is really important and I’m glad to see that different but we have now reached a point improving the quality of the built environment where a culture of “health and safety is the has gone up the political agenda.” way we work” and firmly embedded within the sector. He called for those present to New impetus after Grenfell support the CIOB’s work, adding: “I want to see The institute’s Construction Quality that same cultural shift with regard to Commission was launched in early 2017 in construction quality.” response to a report into defects that led to Paul Nash, chairman of the commission, the closure of a number of Edinburgh schools. added: “Quality, or rather the failure of It was given a new impetus following the quality, is arguably the most important issue tragic Grenfell Tower fire. facing the construction industry today.” He Led by a group of the CIOB’s past presidents, then outlined what the CIOB report focuses it has worked with members and other on: “Our research identified… an underlying industry organisations to identify the main cultural issue in the industry. Quality was issues with regard to quality in construction. being sacrificed to achieve targets.” The Improving Quality in the Built
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Quality alarm bells over permitted development plans The government has been urged not to suggests plans will introduce flexibility established in 2013, with some new building regulations review and the continue with its policy of permitted to react to local circumstances by homes as small as 13 sq m – smaller Hackitt implementation plan.” development, which sees the rapid allowing employment space to be than some hotel rooms. RIBA president Ben Derbyshire said: conversion of offices into homes, amid converted into residential easily. A CIOB spokesman said: “The CIOB “These proposals would enable homes concerns that it leads to the creation But both the Chartered Institute in their response to the chancellor’s to be built without any scrutiny – of substandard housing. of Building (CIOB) and the Royal 2018 budget urged caution in undermining the planning system and The government is currently Institute of British Architects (RIBA) simplifying the process for converting resulting in a race to the bottom to consulting on planning reports. Its have warned that the policy could commercial buildings to housing. At create the cheapest possible housing. consultation document, Planning have damaging consequences a time when building quality is under It is unacceptable that families end up Reform: Supporting the High Street and and has already led to a decline in severe scrutiny, there is a need for the living in developments like these.” Increasing the Delivery of New Homes, standards in England since it was policy to be developed alongside the See Feedback, p19
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‘IT’S VITAL WE RESPECT OUR PEOPLE AS INDIVIDUALS’ THIS MONTH, CM LAUNCHES A NEW SERIES OF CEO INTERVIEWS – TALKING TO THE PEOPLE HEADING CONSTRUCTION’S LEADING ORGANISATIONS ABOUT HOW THEY WILL MEET THE SKILLS REQUIREMENTS OF THEIR WORKFORCES IN A FAST-CHANGING INDUSTRY. FIRST UP, WILL MANN SPEAKS TO WILLMOTT DIXON’S GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE, RICK WILLMOTT PHOTOGRAPHY: TIM FOSTER PHOTOGRAPHY:
“It is easy for the company to concentrate reckons “those words pretty much sum up “Why would anyone join this industry given solely on its proclaimed activity, with little our philosophy today”. the Brexit uncertainty?” Willmott says. “At or no reference to the environment and He has plenty of evidence to prove that the moment, we feel an inability to influence society of which it forms a part. At Willmott Willmott Dixon “walks the walk” – from training anything because of the political situation we have, for a long time, recognised our and developing staff and suppliers to social which is very frustrating. It has become very responsibility to help wherever the advice value programmes. But Willmott recognises difficult to track ministerial changes and the or services our employees can be of use.” these are fast-changing times for the industry. industry needs to lobby for a minister who The quote comes from Willmott Dixon’s An ongoing digital transformation, ethics and can speak up for construction, at a time when then chairman Peter Willmott in the 1978 professionalism in the spotlight, and then Brexit – we’re losing so many EU workers.” annual report. Four decades later, his son however it plays out – which has put construction’s “In the meantime, what we can do is try to Rick, the current group chief executive, skills shortage into even sharper focus. set ourselves up in a way that we continue
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Willmott Dixon’s Scape work is at BIM Level 2, so 60% of site workers 60% are working to that level
to attract people, customers and suppliers Rick Willmott on... “It is great for non-professionals who don’t who will work with us.” ...Quality understand 2D drawings, and can be really useful That includes increasing diversity among “The cost of for clients – at the Menai Science Park project, its new recruits. The Willmott Dixon Group, errors is high. If we used our BIM model to help sell commercial which employs 2,500 people, has a set a target we could rid that space to tenants,” Willmott explains. of being gender-neutral by 2030. from every part He expects data from finished projects to “Traditionally, we fish from a very male- of the business, grow in importance: “We have developed our dominated pool of individuals and we miss 5% margins are digital reporting tools so that every project we out on half the population,” says Willmott. achievable” complete is reported in the same way, which “All the evidence shows, if you have a balanced makes it easier for ourselves and our customers scorecard on diversity, you perform better.” to access and make use of all this data.” He admits the target “has generated some …Professionalism Willmott Dixon has also encouraged its interesting feedback”. “All members of supply chain to come forward with digital “Male staff members were asking, ‘will we our construction ideas, which led to the current trial of an be positively discriminated against?’, and the operations teams exoskeleton, provided by tech firm Ekso females were saying, ‘are you dropping the are encouraged to Bionics, on a site in Wales. bar on standards?’” Willmott says. “I said, be CIOB members ‘absolutely not’, to both questions. – that stamp of Supply chain relations “Our recruitment statistics show that 38% professionalism The company’s supply chain relations are of male candidates are employed, and 35% of is a third-party assessment of an strong, exemplified by its position at the head female candidates. So we’re not discriminating individual’s capability” of the Build UK payment league, paying its against anyone. But we need to get more suppliers more quickly than any other member. women through the interview process.” “It is about ethics,” says Willmott. “And as Currently, 25% of staff are female, though …Paying suppliers part of our Brexit protection plans, we need the firm had a 51% female management trainee “We want our good suppliers who want to work for us. We intake in 2018, so the strategy is moving in the suppliers to reflect can only deliver projects using our supply right direction. our values, which chain, so if we don’t pay them on time, it will means, I hope, have a knock-on effect on our own business.” Beyond traditional recruiting they pay their Willmott also recognises that suppliers Willmott Dixon has also started a returners suppliers on time are key to quality, which he describes as “a programme, Welcome Back, which offers women as well. It falls massive issue” for the industry. a trial at the company, even if they lack industry apart for everybody when “We keep a record of how much we’ve had to experience. For its first intake, the company people don’t play the game” spend on rework, and year on year we’re seeing received over 100 applications, with four women it come down dramatically, helped by good picked for a 20-week paid placement, to finish quality management systems,” he explains. later this month. Willmott says the company will productivity benefits to BIM – fewer clashes, This is also about understanding what use agile working, flexible working and “as much better coordination, less wasted work. “quality” looks like, says Willmott. Last year, as tech as possible” to help the programme. “It is a big part of our training, because all the company launched its “Yellow Book”, a On the topic of technology, becoming more our Scape work is at BIM Level 2, so 60% of manual which brings more standardisation digitally enabled will also help draw recruits our site workers will be working to that level.” to design choices, with the aim of flushing from beyond that traditional pool, Willmott He points to the “BIM Cave” at the company’s out defects through high repeatability and believes. “There are two key points here,” Birmingham office, where the immersive ultimately providing better quality outcomes. he says. “Firstly, the millennial generation is environment allows Willmott Dixon to “It is born of a belief that, if we ask 10 obviously very digitally enabled, as well as explain a building’s design and construction architects to detail, for example, a window caring more about issues like sustainable to customers or potential recruits, using reveal, they would each come up with a design development. Secondly, there are huge 3D models and 280-degree videos. that conformed to the required standard
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…Social value site as projects complete, won a Queen’s Award “When you scratch for Enterprise and Willmott Dixon now plans below the surface to migrate it round the country. in the communities The company is also beta-testing a social where we work, value reporting tool. “It allows customers to the level of choose from a shopping list of social value deprivation initiatives – such as homelessness, work is staggering. experience, young offenders – which they would Big business has a duty to assist like us to roll out in their community, and can and make that more of its purpose” be up to 15% of project value,” Willmott says. Measuring social value is difficult, he acknowledges, and the company currently – but every single one would be different!” uses the National TOMs (themes, outcomes, says Willmott. “So, with the Yellow Book, measures) framework. “It’s a bit arbitrary but we are saying, ‘this is our design and that’s you have to start somewhere,” Willmott says. what you will get’.” Willmott Dixon staff feedback shows it is Quality management has, of course, been doing something right. Now in its 10th year, a key focus for the Chartered Institute of the engagement score of the latest annual Building (CIOB) over the past year, and staff survey was 83%. “The company which Willmott says: “All members of our operational runs the scheme says 60% is ‘world class’,” teams are encouraged to be Chartered says Willmott. The group also ranked 14th in Institute of Building members – that stamp of the 2017 Sunday Times Best Companies To professionalism is a third-party assessment of Work For league table. an individual’s capability.” The group also led That can be attributed partly to its social Rick Willmott CV with the CIOB on its modern slavery campaign, value work, and its attitude to training – l Joined Willmott Dixon in 1982 as a and gives strict guidelines to all its supply “We actually increased training during the project management trainee. chain on their obligations. recession, when other companies were cutting l Seconded to Department of the Environment in 1993. it,” says Willmott – but it’s also down to the l Appointed group chief executive in 2008. Driving ethical initiatives company’s belief in looking after its people. l Fifth family member to lead the business Willmott Dixon’s ethical values extend into “Our staff spend the majority of their time since its founding in 1852. the communities where it works. Although with colleagues and in work premises the l Set up and chairs the Willmott Dixon the Social Value Act was passed in 2012, company provides, so if they are unhappy, then Foundation, the group’s charitable arm. l UKGBC trustee. Willmott says there have been “limited we’ve not really done our duty,” says Willmott. obligations on a contractor” to date. But in “It’s vital they feel respected as an November, Cabinet Office minister David individual. All our managing directors will Lidington announced “new rules to drive meet anyone we bring into business. They he is now in full remission. His wife wrote to social change” through public procurement, each look after around 250 people – with that us saying ‘he wouldn’t have got that support and Willmott says customers are now asking number we think they should be able to know anywhere else’. These are tough things to construction to step up. everyone in their part of the business, and talk about, but we believe in providing that “We’ve already done the thinking, with not pass someone in the corridor and think vital safety net. initiatives like Ready for the Gate, working ‘who is that?’. “We think long and hard about the with offenders at HM Prison Elmley – we “We also consider their families,” Willmott individual’s needs, and the difference an opened a new dry-lining academy there last continues. “We had a recent instance of a individual can make to an organisation. If we month – and our Building Lives Academy in new joiner who was diagnosed with cancer can meet their expectations, and harness their Croydon,” Willmott says. The Croydon scheme, three months later. But our insurance meant potential, then we create an environment for a ‘pop up’ academy that can move from site to he received 18 months’ income, and happily sustainable development.” ●
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persistent reinforcement of our individual and collective responsibility to the people Gavin Dunn who will occupy and live or work nearby to CABE the buildings we design, construct or manage. While some may take umbrage at being lectured on ethics, we need to accept that as Hackitt: Full implementation memories fade, it will be all too easy to revert to old behaviours. For decades our industry is not a quick fix has been shaped by client demand for lowest price delivery above and beyond all other KEY PLAYERS IN ANY NEW REGULATORY considerations. As a result, changing culture REGIME MUST NOT BE CONFLICTED so that we think clearly about personal impacts ABOUT THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES first and foremost will take more than a simple AND ROLES AND GETTING THE acknowledgement today: it is something we IMPLEMENTATION RIGHT WILL need to hardwire into our daily working lives TAKE TIME, ARGUES GAVIN DUNN in the long term. There needs to be a fundamental shift across industry, away from a focus on cut-throat competition to win work, to a focus on the surety of delivery and performance. After all, if we can move beyond the overly simplistic, lowest capital cost culture to one of best value, the opportunities (and economic benefits) to News that the government has pledged to must be to ensure that it does not leave add value from quality design and construction implement the Hackitt Review of Building key players conflicted about their roles and go way beyond managing safety alone. Regulations in full is welcome. While the responsibilities. implementation plan might in places appear Regulators must also be able to enforce Transform the industry as a whole light on detail, this should not necessarily be effectively wherever needed, while clients and While the current proposals for regulatory seen as a bad thing if it results in the right their agents (designers, contractors, installers) reform are focused on high-risk residential decisions being made to ensure delivery must be in no doubt that responsibility rests buildings (HRRB), if that transformation in of the effective and sustainable regulatory with them and that safety is not “somebody quality can be achieved for one part of the framework that we all want in the longer term. else’s problem”. industry, then why not for the industry as The review of fire safety requirements and It was recently reported that one of the a whole? If the system is as broken as Dame guidance in the Building Regulations is ongoing, Grenfell survivor groups has called for the Judith Hackitt states, then perhaps now is with the government continuing to respond new housing regulator to completely separate the time to look at how to fix some of the to concerns on technical standards. This is economic interests from enforcement of construction sector’s underlying problems already leading to quite complex transitional conduct. This is a simple principle that in a more holistic sense. arrangements for industry which need to be may indeed create the clarity of roles and As an industry we need to understand this kept under review and which are indicative of consistency of compliance that is needed. isn’t a sprint to a quick fix – we may be looking future challenges in rolling out reform at a pace Certainly, central to all aspects of reform at a decade or more of reform. That journey which balances political appetite, consumer must be a genuine change in our industry will be entirely worthwhile if in the end we demand and industry capability. culture, and we should welcome the principle of are all working in a transformed industry that government’s (as-yet-unpublished) proposals people can trust. ● Clear roles and responsibilities for a Building Safety Charter, which I hope will Gavin Dunn is chief executive of the A key consideration in the ultimate design be something that the industry as a whole can Chartered Association of Building of the new building regulatory regime adopt from top to bottom. This should provide Engineers (CABE).
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Jaimie Johnston Bryden Wood
can make the common components. This, Implementation of itself, creates economies of scale and In the 2017 autumn Budget, government dramatically increases productivity, but many committed to “use its purchasing power to drive other benefits follow: adoption of modern methods of construction”. This culminated in the announcement of Digitally driven funding for the Core Innovation Hub (CIH) Platforms maximise the benefits of design and a call for evidence on its “Proposal for a for manufacture and assembly (DfMA), New Approach to Building” (P-DfMA). Both for example, reducing time and cost, but happened in the same week of November 2018. increasing quality and certainty. This plays Funding for the CIH is delivered through to the strengths of a new generation of digital the Transforming Construction Alliance. As natives and supports advanced, digitally design lead, I will be making the work we’ve Building on enabled workflows. And with digital libraries, done at Bryden Wood available to test the a platform can be part of a new, tech-driven platforms developed so far and establish platforms industry, holding internet of things (IoT) the manufacturing processes and quality sensor data and facilitating machine learning. assurance required to deliver them. Adoption THE CONCEPT OF A PLATFORM- will then be scaled up. I am also on a cross- BASED APPROACH HAS BEEN Architectural freedom government working group that is looking GAINING TRACTION, AND LATE LAST Shared processes and componentry does not to assist in the adoption of platforms across YEAR THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED mean a common look. Mass customisation sectors – which demonstrates joined up THAT IT WOULD USE IT TO DELIVER offers huge flexibility and architectural thinking from government. ITS COMMITMENT TO MODERN freedom. You can’t tell that a building was Bryden Wood, together with Easi Space, METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION. constructed through a platform approach by have invested in the Construction Platforms JAIMIE JOHNSTON EXPLORES THE looking at it. Research Centre. This will complement the BENEFITS OF THE APPROACH AND CIH, providing another location for physical EXAMINES WHAT COMES NEXT Lowering the barrier to employment prototypes and platforms testing for private Instead of the months or years needed to learn sector clients. a trade, training need take only weeks. In work The work on platforms to date, for public and for the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Bryden private sector clients, has been independently Wood used design for assembly to create benchmarked by T&T and shows considerable an easily understood system that a group capital cost savings. Against this background, of prisoners used to assemble new assets our firm is working on the Heathrow expansion quickly and safely. So platforms offer a route to see how and where platforms can assist in back to work for prisoners and other groups its delivery, especially in the optimisation of such as ex-servicemen or the unemployed. logistics hubs. Last November, Construction Manager At a time when a skills shortage looms over reported on a platform approach to our industry, this has to be a good thing. What’s next? construction, proposed by the UK government Bryden Wood is now looking at how platforms and advocated by Bryden Wood. In the short The government’s stance would facilitate automation in the design and time since, support for the idea has continued With so many benefits, platform construction delivery phase. This includes automated, to gain momentum. is how government will deliver its commitment highly digitally enabled workflows in design, Platforms make construction a lot more like to modern methods of construction. It and automated plant and machinery in manufacturing. A digitally designed “kit of intends to use its £600bn budget for planned delivery, to dramatically reduce numbers parts” can be used across many different kinds infrastructure to create critical mass and of site operatives and boost productivity. ● of asset, creating a high-volume, consistent effect change, with the potential to boost Jaimie Johnston is head of global systems demand so that a wide, diverse supply chain productivity by as much as 90%. at Bryden Wood.
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tools; since implementation we have seen engagement increase by 15%. While our support services offer Silvana Martin Laing O’Rourke professional assistance, we also have 127 mental health “champions” across the business. As well as benefiting the recipients, How Laing O’Rourke our champions have felt a boost to their own confidence and increased value in the work tackles mental health they do. This engagement is helping build a community across our workforce, and bringing ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH the topic of mental health into the open and ISSUES IN CONSTRUCTION tackling the stigma around it. MEANS REACHING OUT TO A WIDE WORKFORCE DEMOGRAPHIC, Training in how to spot problems EXPLAINS SILVANA MARTIN Creating an environment where people can talk openly is a significant step forward for us. Results from our Mind survey in 2017 showed that the way line managers react to mental health issues can be a barrier. In response, we have developed line manager training in how to spot problems and manage them effectively. Since we introduced this in 2017, we have trained 400 managers in how to spot Male site workers in construction are saw improved sleep and energy, had better signs and symptoms and support their people three times more likely to commit suicide focus and concentration and an increased through mental health issues. than the average UK male, according to understanding of nutrition. Our aim for 2019 Laing O’Rourke’s ambition is to change our Office of National Statistics data. With is to support our people to build resilience and internal culture and also be regarded as a 8,000 employees, Laing O’Rourke is one of capacity so they can manage the mental and leader in the industry in tackling mental health the UK’s largest construction employers physical demands of their work environment. issues. We pride ourselves on our support and we take our responsibility of workforce Our strategy has always been based on services which include mental health literacy, wellbeing seriously; we invite challenge and prevention and intervention. The most the provision of mindfulness and resilience interrogation of our practices from Mind significant challenge we have had to address training. We are also looking to change our by taking part in the charity’s Workplace is the diversity of employees, who now range physical environment by transforming what is Wellbeing Index. from 16 to 60+ years old and who require quite a traditional workplace into something In 2015, Laing O’Rourke tried to engage varied tools for communication. that stimulates creativity and innovation. employees in dealing with specific areas Three years ago, we had a 3% usage of mental wellbeing and help overturn the Apps and online engagement of our confidential counselling line. In stigma around mental health issues and At the start of our campaign, we realised not 18 months, this rose to 12%. This summer, illness. Last year, we were awarded Silver in everyone wanted to engage in the channels in our employee engagement survey, 81% Mind’s Wellbeing Index, which demonstrates we offered. We needed to ask “What can of our employees agreed their line manager the impact we are making. we provide that our workforce actually would take action to support their wellbeing. Also in 2018, we piloted a six-month wants?” and this has led to a multi-channel Our goal is to create an environment that lifestyle change to encourage adoption of approach. The younger generation don’t allows everyone to bring the best version a more physically and mentally healthy want to pick up a phone or meet face to of themselves to work. ● lifestyle across our workforce. The 320 face, so alongside the traditional channels Silvana Martin is health and wellbeing people who took part together lost 118 stone, we have set up apps and online engagement leader at Laing O’Rourke.
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Chris Blythe Chief executive CIOB
The construction industry sometimes seems to inhabit a parallel universe. To those Comment outside the industry, and those in government “The contractors blame the especially, what the industry says has very client and subcontractors, little value. Any kudos that the industry got the subbies blame the as result of the Olympic delivery has long consultants and designers, Construction’s evaporated. The current cycle of cynicism started everyone blames parallel universe with the Edinburgh schools fiasco where the lawyers” bricklayers seemed unable to build walls with IN ORDER TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY the right ties in place, compounded with poor BY THOSE OUTSIDE THE INDUSTRY, supervision and inadequate inspection which Credibility is finally shattered with CONSTRUCTION NEEDS TO LEARN failed to identify the issues. How children Carillion. Unfinished roads, hospitals left LESSONS FROM ITS OWN FAILINGS were not killed was a miracle. empty, and the lives of both the people AND EMBED QUALITY IN EVERYTHING depending on Carillion for providing IT DOES, ARGUES CHRIS BLYTHE Dysfunctional industry the means for life-saving treatment and About the same time, a housebuilder was businesses and livelihoods wrecked. It is no alleged to have been involved in a scandal wonder the government has asked public where it was paying people cash to move contractors to prepare a “living will”. into unfinished homes, presumably to hit “completion” targets. Appreciating complexity Imagine if you went to pick up your The big project competency gloss finally new car and the dealer said: ‘The car’s not went when less than three months before finished – we still have a door to put on but Crossrail was due to go into operation in we need to book the sale, so here’s £50 for December 2018, it was announced it would you to take it out of the showroom.’ Perhaps be delayed until December 2019. if you worked in housebuilding you might I cannot help but think that someone take the deal! was not paying attention to what was Along came Grenfell Tower and what Dame happening because I suspect anyone working Judith Hackitt said in her report came as underground could tell you that the opening no surprise to anyone. She characterised date was impossible to meet. The criticism a dysfunctional industry full of well- of Crossrail is that no one appreciated the intentioned people but missing the point. complexity of the project. As if to prove her case, the finger-pointing Is there any guarantee that the same is that followed came as no surprise. not the case for HS2? London to Leeds and The consultants blame the contractors, then Newcastle via Birmingham? Originally the contractors blame the client and conceived to move people quickly and subcontractors, the subbies blame the rejustified on grounds of extra capacity, consultants and designers, everyone blames it is already admitting that it is considering the lawyers, and the designers blame the running fewer, slower trains in order to regulations and the government. save money. Credibility gets stretched to breaking Is HS2 doomed, leaving devastation to point with the Persimmon bonus lark. What homes and communities in its wake? Or will sort of board of a PLC agrees such a deal and efforts within the industry to learn lessons
CROSSRAIL what sort of beneficiaries allow this to roll and embed quality in construction bring them Crossrail: was anyone paying attention? out the way it did? back to the real world? ●
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Anthony Bonnett Clive Chamberlain Sean Morgan Geoffrey Williams Robby Watt Permitted development As a UKATA-approved After years working in the Manchester Town Hall The sooner lowest price needs to be regulated but at asbestos awareness and construction industry both is a fine building with a bidding is banned from the same time we can’t stick non-licensed asbestos on site and at management historical background. the industry the better. with the same outdated and trainer, I am in daily contact level, the problem with dust The wood content in In our construction cumbersome planning criteria with the trades, who we control has never been really its structure means that industry, I suggest that which have contributed a lot must respect and care for. addressed. It is always the it is susceptible to a high MBAs should be broader to the crises. The HSE’s Hidden Killer subcontractor’s problem, fire risk. It is important and feel more like Can building control not campaign has been around never the main contractor’s to feature the highest engineering degrees. inspect and ensure standards now for nine years. UKATA problem. I am not aware standards to ensure Estimators should rely are being maintained? was formed 11 years ago of anyone who has been protection against fire. on engineers and project A predetermined list of all and the excellent IOSH “No prosecuted for lack of dust A proven fireproof cable managers to prepare prices qualifying criteria – minimum Time to Lose” campaign is control, pollution, damage to like type MICC (mineral and programmes for the bid, size, materials, access – well established but I find it adjacent property or vehicles. insulated non-ageing), and to critically review the could be made available and amazing that many people must be considered to contract conditions. building control then inspects still don’t understand the Denis Lawler ensure that fire protection The upstream design before issuing an occupancy need to protect themselves. When you travel around sites and the electrical supply information must be certificate. Insurers would Even the most basic dust like I do, it’s frightening to to essential services is assessed, and the client’s not be allowed to insure control hierarchy of avoiding see the complete lack of deemed secure. consultants held to task unless the occupancy dust creation, control by care given to protecting site if the information is certificate were issued. wetting down, extraction operatives from the effects not adequate. with M-class vacs before of dust: concrete dust, Richard JF Moore face fit testing and use wood dust, plasterboard Mike Mogul As Anthony Bonnett stated, of respiratory protective dust. All construction dust is The construction industry it is the responsibility of the equipment (RPE) are widely dangerous. The HSE needs has many “fat cats” but local authority to ensure that misunderstood. to take a strong stand with they are always crying out standards comply with the We need more site companies who fail to protect that they are not making Building Regulations, which discipline, coupled their employees. money! Market forces bring will have been approved prior with good practical out the best in innovation to construction. training. We also need more and value for money for Surely, the policy of enforcement officers in local the public. permitted development only authorities and the HSE. refers to planning approval aspects and not to the specification of materials or the details of construction? Is this debacle just another Provide your own feedback on latest industry issues by posting comments example which highlights the online at www.constructionmanagermagazine.com or emailing the editor failure of local authority and at [email protected] client supervision?
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20 GALLIFORD TRY SITE SIMULATION 24 BALFOUR BEATTY HAVS 26 FUTUREBUILD TIMBER: 28 COMBUSTIBLES BAN 32 STRUCTURAL TIMBER USE 20-42 34 TIMBER AND AIR QUALITY 36 INNOVATIVE TIMBER PROJECTS BIM & DIGITAL: Technical 38 ROUND TABLE: CONSULTANTS
The gateman barges into the site office and he isn’t happy. “It’s happened again hasn’t it? Someone has nicked my milk,” he complains. But the inexperienced site manager does not respond to this relatively minor complaint. He is already struggling with a project execution plan, a health and safety plan and various unfamiliar specifications. It gets worse. A QS arrives demanding that a telehandler is removed from its position as quickly as possible. He is followed by an angry mother whose daughter is being harassed by site workers as she passes each morning. Nothing is getting resolved, despite the site manager’s frantic phone calls as he tries to get on top of the situation. Fortunately, none of this matters – because none of it is real. This is a simulation of a Galliford Try student accommodation project at Coventry University. The gateman, the QS, and the angry mother are all actors. The SIM CITY incompetent site manager is none other than the author of this article. GALLIFORD TRY IS USING A LIVE STUDENT The university’s simulation centre ACCOMMODATION PROJECT IN COVENTRY TO is being used to train students in a 3D TRAIN STUDENTS IN THE REALITIES OF SITE digital environment, combined with MANAGEMENT – USING THE UNIVERSITY’S real-life scenarios using specially HIGH-TECH SIMULATION CENTRE JUST AROUND trained actors. The facility has a huge THE CORNER. NEIL GERRARD FINDS OUT MORE “Learning Curve” interactive screen to Computer visualisations (top) replicate the simulate construction environments – towers of the nearby project site (above) and what makes this course unique is
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Logistics is the main challenge for Galliford Try at Paradise Street, with 900 bathroom pods to be delivered to the 900 site and only one walkway as access
that the project being simulated is live and happening just across the road. The contractor is building the “I can have the students £52.5m, 893-bedroom Paradise Street working with customers, talking student accommodation development to M&E suppliers, or just doing for client The Elite Group. It consists general management” of a set of townhouses which have Janet Campbell, already been handed over, along with Coventry University Simulation Centre three towers of nine, 11 and 13 storeys. On a tour of the real-life site, Galliford Try project manager David Duff and model. There was a Revit drawing in the operations manager John Freeman background and it was all given to the explain that the project, started in guys at the simulation centre, which has February 2017, has been built on what a BIM specialist,” explains Peace. was an old tyre warehouse and garage. The model was combined with a The site was fully piled following a specialist simulation package called survey for unexploded ordnance, a legacy XVR, allowing students to virtually of Coventry’s heavy wartime bombing, “walk” around the site. and, though nothing was discovered, the There are limitations to the virtual investigations did mean the contractor training – there is a limited cast of actors, was granted an extension of time. for instance – so students are given The buildings’ frames are traditional phone numbers of different contacts The simulation centre’s Learning Curve screen reinforced concrete, with slipform they may need to talk to, including the cores. Generally, each floor of the scheduled for September 2019, though The Paradise project manager, the hire company and towers is the same, housing clusters Tower C will be handed over in April. Street project other suppliers. The calls from the site of between 10 and 14 people sharing a These challenges encountered Client: manager’s office all route through to a The Elite Group communal kitchen – 111 in total. Tiny during the build have all been fed into central control room in the facility so Main contractor: bathroom pods are installed in each the simulation and the training. Galliford Try the course tutors and actors can respond room, floor by floor, using CantiDecks. Duff’s predecessor as project Demolition: as if they were the appropriate contact. With more focus on fire safety in high- manager, Richard Peace, has worked Provectus Group The construction programme rise buildings post-Grenfell, cladding closely with academics to make the Piling: has been partly designed to suit the Foundation Piling used is non-combustible and all three experience as realistic as possible, Groundworks: simulation and reflect the widest range towers are fitted with sprinklers. including a scenario where a MPB Structures of scenarios possible. That means that Hot water is delivered from a nearby telehandler is accidentally backed into RC frame: while Tower A is complete, Tower B is in district heating main, with room heating a member of the public’s car. MPB Structures fit-out and Tower C is still being built. M&E: J Tomlinson from electric panel heaters, so there is “The crashed car was a real scenario,” Janet Campbell, who has run Cladding: Longworth no substantial onsite plant room. explains Peace, who has also replicated the simulation centre since its first Value: £52.5m Logistics has been the main challenge more common site issues. “Milk thefts Project start: simulation in 2009, explains: “It means for the contractor, with only one are a daily occurrence, as well as February 2017 I can have the students working with walkway as access to the site, and 900 contractors arguing with each other for Expected customers, talking to M&E suppliers, bathroom pods to be delivered. The first space, trespasses on site, angry delivery completion: or just doing general management. We September 2019 floor slab of Tower A was left out while drivers, and so on,” he adds. can take people to the real site and show the ground floor slab was installed The 3D model used in the simulation them what is happening there, and that and then protected to create a second was created using CAD drawings for makes it easier for the students to then entrance to the site, and only closed the project. “We had the structural come here and become immersed into it before Christmas. Final completion is engineer’s drawings and the architect’s and understand what is happening.”
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A student’s perspective
Students can visit the real-life Paradise Street site, just across the road from ‘Having done the simulation, Coventry University’s simulator I would do it in a different way’
it should be there, for example. “He just comes in and demands that the site manager off-hires something immediately,” says Campbell. “It is your site and your cabin and this guy has just walked in and told you to do something. It is very hard when you are 18 or 19 when someone a lot older comes in and tells you to do something. They feel they have to follow what they are told, so it is about giving them The virtual site entrance the confidence that you can politely challenge someone and find out what it is Coventry University’s simulation all about first,” adds Steve Austin, head of Galliford Try’s Paradise Street project was piloted by a group of of school for engineering, construction fourth-year MEng students. Tom and environment at the university. Wood, who is finishing his MEng All of this required quite a bit of faith in civil engineering before taking from Galliford Try. The idea for the up a job with Aecom, describes his experience of using it. simulation of a live, real-world project “It is much more like real life was the university’s and it has evolved [than a conventional university into something much larger than the course] because you can learn the soft skills,” he says. STUART BROWN STUART contractor originally envisaged, explains Jon Marston, regional managing director “In one of the simulations, someone had their car crashed into. Peace recalls: “When this was first at Galliford Try Building. He says the firm I dealt with it really badly and wasn’t shown to me, they took me to look at was nervous about putting the company empathetic enough. I was stressed one of the towers. On the model, they name to the project, particularly because and got in a flap about it but, having have included problems like defects and the health and safety issues that the done the simulation, I would do it in a different way where there would unsafe site conditions – anything that students see in the simulation did not have been much less conflict. could cause you some pain. Students occur on the real-life project. “People skills in construction can cross-reference this with the “That is the uncomfortable part of it,” are really important,” he continues. programme and work out whether says Marston. “You want to put an image “Instead of just worrying about how some packages are behind schedule.” out there from a corporate point of view to get rid of the woman who had her car crashed into without admitting Then the actors get thrown into the that it is very clinical and precise. But this liability, now I would calm her down, mix. “The students get disrupted and is what you have to get site managers make sure she got a taxi, and make interrupted which means they have to “They have ready for. There are some uncomfortable sure she left happy. The feedback I got make decisions while also carrying out included virtual scenarios in there.” was that it is important she leaves happy, particularly because she is a the work they have been tasked with, so defects and There is agreement among both unsafe site neighbour of the site. If she leaves it is a very busy, intensive day. We can Galliford Try staff and the students that happy, even if the case then has to go look at different learning outcomes and conditions – the simulation provides a valuable new legal, she is not going to be an issue then change the scenarios. This is about anything that learning experience, teaching not just with getting the work done on site. leadership and management and based could cause the theory but preparing students for “In the simulation, you don’t have to worry about the consequences on finding out the facts and making a you some pain” the realities of working on a site – only Richard Peace, of getting things wrong. I would in a consequence-free environment. decision,” says Campbell. Galliford Try have been much better prepared Take the situation with the QS who Unfortunately for the gateman, for my placement if I had done the wants to have the telehandler removed that means that he never did get a simulation beforehand.” from site because he doesn’t believe replacement for his stolen milk. ●
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Bryant is also concerned about how the industry uses the HSE’s exposure points system, created following the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005, which calculates exposure values based on time and vibration magnitude level. “People think that if their exposure score is under the recommended level, then they’re fine,” she says. “We’re saying ‘that’s the wrong approach’. You should be trying to eliminate vibration exposure from the outset by planning your work differently.” This holistic approach, which also ties in with the goals of the Construction Design & Management Regulations 2015, puts more onus on upfront planning. “We can build very well, but our designers and architects don’t always think about the health and safety aspect,” says Bryant. “So, for example, when ducting is required, usually site workers will use HAVS NOT: BALFOUR’S drilling. But on one of our projects, for installation of the M&E service trays, 2020 SAFETY TARGET instead we cast Unistrut channels into the underside of the precast floor slabs. BALFOUR BEATTY PLANS TO ELIMINATE NEW CASES This eliminated drilling – and dust OF HAND ARM VIBRATION SYNDROME (HAVS) BY 2020. and vibration – plus an estimated 75% HEAD OF HEALTH AND SAFETY HEATHER BRYANT reduction in working at height. It also EXPLAINS HOW TO WILL MANN yielded a one day a week saving on the M&E programme.” She adds that drilling has now been Is it possible to eradicate Hand Arm 2017, there were 270 new HAVS claims There were 270 new banned on some Balfour Beatty sites. Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) from across all industries, out of 7,115 over Hand Arm Vibration Bryant believes there is a big role Syndrome (HAVS) construction? That’s the ambition of the 10-year period dating back to 2008. for BIM with this ‘health and safety by cases across all a new health and safety strategy from Heather Bryant, Balfour’s health, industries in 2017 design’ approach, as she calls it. “We Britain’s biggest construction group safety, environment and sustainability should be starting at the beginning, Balfour Beatty, which wants to see no new director, says “awareness has grown” putting health and safety considera- cases of HAVS on its sites by next year. but “HAVS is still an issue”. Formerly tions into the design stage,” she says. The disease has long been associ- the Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) “It is through forethought that we can ated with construction, particularly chief inspector of construction, she says: eliminate HAVS risks, rather than trying with breakers, saws and drills, though “Based on my experience, HAVS has not to solve everything at build stage.” instances have fallen over the last decade always been declared because people Balfour Beatty’s supply chain will be as control measures have improved. In didn’t want to be stopped from working.” key to the strategy, Bryant recognises.
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Pile-breaking best practice is to use remote-controlled Brokk robots PAULINA HOLMGREN PAULINA
“It is through exposure to operatives by 32%,” Bryant forethought explains. “The remotely operated saw Balfour’s HAVS ‘Hateful Eight’ that we can also reduces exposure to dust and noise, eliminate and makes a cleaner and more accurate Pile cutting Cutting reinforcement HAVS risks, cut, reducing the need for rework.” rather than On another Balfour Beatty road job, Vibration magnitude 3m/s2 Vibration magnitude 3.9m/s2 trying to solve everything the M1 Kislingbury scheme, structural at build stage” repair specialist Balvac used positioner- Reduce risk by making Eliminate/reduce risk Heather Bryant, Balfour Beatty actuator-manipulators (PAMs), a use of integrated by use of boltcroppers supported, free-moving arm which pile-breaking methods. (up to 10mm manual and up operatives can guide to break out to 20mm electrical). As part of its ‘Zero Harm’ philosophy, it concrete with no HAVS risk.
has established working groups to tackle Repetition and standardisation will Vibration of concrete Install edge protection various concerns, and established one help promote this kind of technology for HAVS last April. The members are and cut risk, Bryant says. “It also fits Vibration magnitude 2.5m/s2 Vibration magnitude 9m/s2 specialist contractors Morrisroe, Carey with our target of reducing onsite work and Fortel, tool manufacturer Hilti and by 25% by 2025, as we move more work Eliminate risk by use of Eliminate risks by using recruitment business McGinley. into the factory,” she adds. precast elements, cast in anchors/halfens. “We set them the challenge, by Use of offsite manufacturing and self-compacting concrete Eliminate HAVS risk and December, of identifying the key HAVS feeding safety thinking into the design or shutter vibrators reduce exposure to silica risk areas and establishing a hierarchy stage is, of course, fine in theory – but to eliminate exposure dust by using diamond of control,” Bryant explains. “They will it work in practice when lead-in to HAVS. coring or drill rigs. came back with a guide which we are times are tight and construction calling the ‘Hateful Eight’ [see box]. programmes even tighter? Scabbling Use of skill saws “So, for example, for pile-breaking, “The answer to that is educating the best practice recommends elim- clients about the benefits,” replies Vibration magnitude 35m/s2 Vibration magnitude 2.5m/s2 inating the risk by using remote- Bryant. “On our 5 Miles Street project in controlled Brokk demolition robots.” south London, where the ductwork was Eliminate risk by making Eliminate/reduce risk Bryant wants suppliers to collabo- cast in to the precast floors, we actually use of precast elements by use of precast elements rate and share ideas, but is firm that delivered the building more quickly. So, or surface retarders or panel systems or best practice will have to be adhered while the original aim of the strategy applied to concrete eliminate/reduce connections to eliminate timber formwork. to. “There will come a time in 2020 was to improve operational safety, a the need for scabbling. when we tell our suppliers, ‘these are positive consequence was that the client the solutions and they are what we got the building early.” Pile breaking/trimming Power floating expect on our sites’,” she says. Bryant stresses that the primary “But we will also tell our suppliers if reason for the HAVS strategy is “zero Vibration magnitude 6m/s2 Vibration magnitude 5m/s2 they find something better, safer, more harm to our workers”. But she adds: innovative than what is in the Balfour “There may be more time, cost and Eliminate risk by making Eliminate risk by making Beatty plant standards book – then we’ll planning required upfront, but there use of remote breaking use of ride-on power take a look at it.” are bigger benefits further down the line. equipment. floats to eliminate This will likely include more use of Our industry has a skills shortage and exposure to HAVS. robotics and automation, says Bryant. productivity is low. That can be partly On an M3 project, collaborating with addressed by keeping workers healthier, Extrudakerb, Balfour Beatty used an so they can stay in their jobs for longer, For each risk, reduce HAVS exposure by tool selection automated saw for cutting into concrete and by making efficiency games from and rotation of operatives. step barriers. “We reduced HAVS technology such as robotics.” ●
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l Buildings and Rockpanel. Both will a spotlight on emerging information, expert support The Buildings Hub will cover create key focal points and alternatives, the Materials and showcases of natural all aspects of building, networking opportunities for Hub will bring together materials and businesses including new build, retrofit building professionals. the latest advances and within the UK natural and refurbishment. Visitors As an official UK expertise from across building industry. will have the opportunity to government innovation the sector. “The Materials speak to pioneering brands partner, Futurebuild will also With a focus on supporting l Waste Zone and Hub will provide working across construction be hosting the Innovation visitors in making the best Circular Economy a platform for and maintenance – such Zone with the Department possible material choices on The Waste Zone will return visitors to meet as Internorm, Recticel, for Business, Energy & the projects they are working with new and expanded and learn from Bauder, Durisol and Smart Industrial Strategy (BEIS) on, the Hub will provide features. Curated by Systems – as well as engage and Innovate UK. a platform for visitors to architect, academic and leading industry in conversation around At the Zone, which sits meet and learn from leading author Duncan Baker- bodies” the latest technology and next to the Buildings Hub, industry bodies, including Brown, the area will legislation. BEIS will be showcasing TRADA, The Concrete Centre, showcase how waste can A Buildings seminar the work of the Energy Wood for Good and the be a valuable resource for allow attendees to gain programme will give visitors Innovation Programme and Mineral Products Association. industry. Central to the a deep understanding insights into the latest demonstrating how it is Adding to the knowledge- experience will be the of the latest insights and thinking and initiatives delivering the Clean Growth sharing and practical new Circular Economy approaches from across in building quality and Strategy. Focusing on true demonstrations on offer will Hub, which will take a the sector. performance and occupier innovation, it will provide a be an exhibitor list featuring unique beach hut format comfort. The sessions platform for investment and top brands representing and feature a collection l Urban Infrastructure will explore new tools, knowledge exchange across all building materials, of hand-picked brands at The Urban Infrastructure technologies and delivery three areas: a dedicated including Nudura, Glavloc, the forefront of making the Hub will explore the latest approaches to improve both three-day seminar series; an Cemex UK, Creagh Concrete, circular economy a reality. solutions across blue, green, new and existing buildings. exhibition featuring innovative Piveteaubois and Steico. grey and social infrastructure. In an industry still feeling companies BEIS and The Future of Concrete, l Offsite The Urban Infrastructure the effects of Grenfell, Innovate UK have provided created in collaboration with Visitors will be at the heart Seminar Theatre, attendees will also be given funding to; and a “Business The Concrete Centre, will of construction innovation sponsored by ACO, and the the opportunity to voice their Bar” in collaboration with allow visitors to learn more in the Offsite Hub, hosted accompanying exhibition will concerns on topics such as the Knowledge Transfer about concrete’s design in partnership with Explore feature both nature-based social value, overheating, Network – providing one-to- potential and sustainability. Offsite. Four dedicated and manufactured solutions high-rise, Passivhaus and one advice and support on TRADA will also seminar theatres – each to address challenges in build performance. accessing funding. highlight timber’s design focused on a specific active travel, air pollution, Further key features capabilities, with a gallery technology or theme within landscaping, water include the Home of the l Materials of shortlisted entries for offsite and backed by a management and more, while Future feature build, Uniting the latest the TRADA University relevant trade body – will the Hub’s own green space, created by Tufeco and the innovations, research and Challenge competition in provide hours of in-depth, City Walk, will allow visitors RIBA Bookshop, designed understanding in mainstream its bookshop. In addition, structured knowledge to experience the benefits by Gundry + Ducker and materials such as timber the Natural Building Area sharing. This comprehensive of a green setting and see sponsored by Rockwool and concrete, alongside will offer free educational education programme will innovations on display.
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Cross-laminated timber has been widely used in recent years (clockwise from top left): 6 Orsman Road, London, a hybrid steel-and-CLT structure; Sky’s Believe in Better building; The Hive, Worcester; Alfriston Pool, Buckinghamshire
The UK stands at the forefront of a revolution in engineered timber construction as architects and contractors push creative and technical boundaries to deliver increasingly challenging structures. Innovative new products and design methods have allowed timber to compete structurally at scale with concrete or steel, which among other things has resulted in development of the world’s first nine-storey timber residential building, Murray Grove in the London Borough of Hackney, and the world’s largest cross-laminated timber (CLT) building, in terms of volume of wood, Dalston Works in east London. Constructing with timber, versus traditional materials with high embodied carbon, helps cut emissions and may be critical to keep global warming below 1.5 deg C, needed to prevent the worst
TIM CROCKER (ORSMAN ROAD); HUFTON + CROW (HIVE); JACK HOBHOUSE (ALFIRSTON) HOBHOUSE (ALFIRSTON) (HIVE); JACK + CROW HUFTON TIM CROCKER (ORSMAN ROAD); effects of climate change. CLT, which is relatively light and quick to erect, has even been held up as a potential solution TIMBER FACES HEAT OF to the housing crisis. But growing ambitions for engineered COMBUSTIBLES BAN timber could be cut short by controversial THE TIMBER SECTOR IS UP IN ARMS OVER THE government fire safety legislation, GOVERNMENT’S BAN ON COMBUSTIBLES IN NEW introduced to prevent a repeat of the HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS – BUT HOW WILL THE RULING Grenfell Tower tragedy. The ban on IMPACT THE MARKET? STEPHEN COUSINS REPORTS the use of combustible materials in the external walls of residential buildings over 18m tall, enforced from 21 December, has the potential to damage the CLT
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Engineered500 timber has been used to deliver more than 500 UK buildings to date
market and has been fiercely opposed by architects and manufacturers who claim it is not based on the evidence (see box). Meanwhile, Whitehall’s decision to “take forward” all the recommendations in Dame Judith Hackitt’s independent review of building regulations and fire safety will have wider implications for supply chains working in engineered timber across all building types.
Growing market New parametric modelling systems are The past five years has seen engineered also making it possible to develop panels timber take hold in the UK where, thanks that are bespoke to specific purposes Reaction to the in part to falling prices and the rise of the using different types and thicknesses combustibles ban sustainability agenda, it has been used of timber and different laminates. to deliver over 500 buildings to date. Adrian Campbell, director at engi- A proven solution for low and neering consultant Changebuilding, Anthony Thistleton, medium-rise residential buildings says: “There is a tremendous drive for founding partner of Waugh and schools, CLT is now being applied offsite right now, fuelled by the digiti- Thistleton Architects, a to swimming pools, gymnasiums, light sation of the industry, and a significant prominent CLT advocate industrial buildings and office blocks. number of timber modular systems Its use by Sky, on the Believe in appearing, including volumetric CLT The inclusion of Better building – the tallest commercial systems by Swan Housing. There are “I wouldn’t be surprised CLT within this timber building in the UK – and more numerous ways engineered timber ban is not merited recently Google, for the new European can be used to supplement or replace if we start to by the evidence HQ currently on site at King’s Cross, are traditional building elements.” see exclusion and is a result evidence of CLT’s increasing popularity. clauses of the government trying to act relating to CLT quickly without understanding Key benefits include rapid installation, Grenfell fallout the full consequences. There reduced waste, lighter weight compared The Grenfell tragedy sent out shockwaves in insurance was a political imperative for to concrete, meaning fewer foundations, that will be felt for many years to documents” the government to be seen to and much lower embodied carbon. come. Where previously, insurance to Tim Carey, be doing something strong in Willmott Dixon response to Grenfell. We are now Innovations are driving the construct tall buildings was relatively working closely with the industry development of new engineered straightforward, albeit with slightly to try to get a ban that is more timber products and design methods. fluctuating premiums, post-Grenfell reflective of the risk. Hybrid structures that use CLT in they have increased significantly. And Our frustration is that the combination with glulam, laminated although much of the media focus was Hackitt report came out with strong recommends around the veneer lumber (LVL) or steel beams on the tower’s cladding, a knock-on effect “golden thread” and the chain make it possible to achieve the bigger has been that insurers today perceive of custody over fire, and general spans required for commercial offices any tall building as an insurance risk. oversight of construction, and and industrial buildings. For example, “In the past the industry took it for Dame Judith specifically said that a ban is not the answer. the recently completed factory granted that you could get insurance We were told by civil servants headquarters for Vitsoe in Royal to build things, but the market is with the MHCLG that the move Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, was becoming tighter and tighter – it’s a was a political one and not based able to achieve 25m column-free spans rapidly changing landscape we have to on the evidence. using a newly developed beech LVL. operate in,” says Tim Carey, national
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“Part of the advantage of building in CLT is that the frame for each floor goes up simultaneously and from a single source of delivery” Anthony Thistleton, Waugh Thistleton
solution for high-rise) who believe its inclusion within the regulation was arbitrary and unjustified. The law applies to all new housing, student accommodation, registered care homes, hospitals and boarding school dormitories over 18m tall and states that only materials with European fire rating of Class A1 or A2 may be used in external walls, which TOM ROE TOM excludes all wood products. product director at Willmott Dixon. Australia’s tallest the business and its customers and Some critics pointed to the fact “Certain products and systems that timber building, 25 projects in the shorter term. In a move that Grenfell was a concrete-framed King, is constructed tower and the spread of the flames is were previously acceptable, including using glulam and CLT that pre-empted the latest government engineered timber, are now very ruling, the company banned the use of thought to have been accelerated by difficult to get insurance on. I wouldn’t any combustible materials in external combustible aluminium-composite be surprised if we start to see exclusion wall build-ups, including structural cladding, not by wood. clauses relating to CLT appearing in elements, cladding and insulation, for Also notable is the fact that the insurance documents.” any buildings over 18m tall. final Hackitt report itself does not He is part of an early adopters group “This is about taking a pragmatic recommend a ban; instead it states that set up by the Ministry of Housing, position on what we think is reasonable. too much focus has been placed on the Communities and Local Government Our view is that in the wider industry, faults of the Grenfell cladding rather (MHCLG) to trial ways of working in too many buildings are being built than on reviewing the system as a whole. line with the recommendations of the with inappropriate materials without One of its eight key recommenda- Hackitt Review. sufficient duty of care or auditing to tions is to develop a clearer, more trans- According to Carey, things came to a know what goes into a building to make parent and more effective specification head recently when the main contractor it safe,” says Carey. and testing regime of construction was unable to get insurance cover to build products, including products as they a circa 15-storey tower block out of CLT. Up in flames? are put together as part of a system. The material was a requirement for the The decision by government to It states that this should include clear customer’s architect so Willmott Dixon impose its own ban on combustibles statements on what systems products was forced to decline the opportunity. was welcomed by many, but strongly can and cannot be used for, with their This prompted it to develop a new criticised by architects, manufacturers use made essential. set of internal policies for fire safety and others working with CLT (currently Mark Stevenson, chairman of the and compliance to help futureproof the only viable structural timber Structural Timber Association, says:
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The international perspective on high-rise timber
Away from the UK, the rest of the world continues to build higher and higher with timber
“Given the way that clients are looking Given the global drive to build high Brock Commons at their buildings and wanting to increasingly taller “ply-scrapers” in Vancouver, which is better understand performance and (see box), there are concerns that the supported on a timber frame but enclosed by a skin of how things get delivered, we need to recent ban will compromise Britain’s drywall and concrete. be looking at overall systems. This position at the forefront of innovation Australia’s tallest timber isn’t about individual products, it is in engineered timber. building is a 45m-high office more about how they come together The ban is likely to result in changes in Brisbane, which uses an offsite manufactured to provide safety for occupants. You to specifications and approaches but is structure of glulam and could imagine a situation where unlikely to prevent the general use of cross-laminated timber a collection of non-combustible engineered timber frames. The reality (CLT). It was completed materials still act like a chimney to could be some form of hybrid structural last year after a build of spread fire, so wouldn’t it be better solution, which may have an impact on just 15 months. The 10-storey building, to design a system that prevents sequencing, speed of delivery and the known as 25 King, was something like that from happening?” amount of onsite labour. designed by architect Bates Architect Waugh Thistleton, a Smart for Lendlease. Thick and resistant prominent CLT advocate, is amending Meanwhile, the world’s tallest timber tower is Connecting timber with elevated fire design proposals to take into account the under construction in risk might seem like common sense, but need for some form of steel frame system the Norwegian town of one of the major advantages of CLT is its for external walls, alongside internal Brumunddal: the Mjøstårnet inherent fire resistance. As a panelised CLT floor slabs, walls, core and stairs. tower at 80m high will dwarf system with a thick cross-section, it is “It’s not the best way to build; part its closest rival by 27m. Norway’s Mjørstårnet tower The 18-storey structure designed to char slowly and maintain of the advantage of building in CLT will be the world’s tallest is based around a perimeter its structural integrity. is that the frame for each floor goes Last month, the US-based frame of glulam columns, In addition, the emphasis on upfront up simultaneously and from a single International Code Council beams and diagonals that design and offsite manufacture makes source of delivery, which ensures that (ICC) gave the go-ahead brace the external walls and carry vertical and it possible to create super-airtight the site is fully accessible and safe for 14 tall mass timber code change proposals that will horizontal loads. spaces that prevent the spread of fire. for use by follow-on trades on every allow mass timber buildings A CLT core holds three In practice, a combination of timber floor below the one being built,” says to reach up to 18 storeys. elevators and two staircases. charring and fire-resistant boards are founding partner Anthony Thistleton. The changes will be included There are about 400 giant commonly used to achieve the fire rating. “We expect the speed of CLT in the 2021 International glulam elements in total, the Building Code. biggest of which has a cross However, CLT remains a relatively erection to be compromised by this The world’s highest section of 1.5m x 0.6m. new material with limited in-use regulation in the short term. We are mass timber tower, at 53m, The Mjøstårnet tower is fire testing, and codes are still being currently working to see if we can is currently the 18-storey due to open next month. adapted to accommodate it. tie up with manufacturers of offsite panel systems so we can synchronise installation with CLT.” Left: 25 King in and believe the current situation may Meanwhile, the CLT Hub, a collection Brisbane took just 15 constitute a bump in the road. of all key UK stakeholders, continues months to construct “We often draw a parallel with the to lobby the government and local growth of concrete and reinforced authorities to overturn the ban. Evidence concrete in the 20th century. When from global fire performance testing you look at the trajectory of innovation is being compiled to present the case. and architecture that emerged in the Whatever the ultimate outcome, its concrete age, we are only just at the proponents argue engineered timber beginning of the timber age and there remains one of the quickest and most is still a huge amount to achieve,”
TOM ROE TOM sustainable methods of construction Thistleton concludes. ●
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Long span GLVL being manufactured in a Steico factory
strength: a GLVL beam manufactured Types of by Steico, measuring 360mm x 200mm, engineered has a weight of 39.6kg/m. This is barely timber half that of a standard steel HEM 160 l I-joists and metal H-beam, measuring 180mm x 166m, and web joists – typically weighing in at 77kg/m. used for basic GLVL was used on the extension of floor, wall and roof Steico’s offices in Munich. The high construction. l Glulam – for 2 loading requirements – up to 5.0 kN/m higher load bearing – allowed the long span capacities of the applications. GLVL to be used to their maximum. Spans l LVL and GLVL of up to 7.25m were incorporated with (laminated veneer lumber and glued- depths of only 240mm. Fire certification laminated veneer WHEN TO SPECIFY up to F90-B was achieved using simple lumber – where the char rating calculations (see box: Key highest loads need to standards for engineered timber). be accommodated). STRUCTURAL TIMBER? l Steico’s GLVL beams can be CLT (cross- laminated timber) ENGINEERED TIMBER IS BEING USED ON A manufactured up to 18m length, with – for structural WIDER RANGE OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. depths up to 400mm and widths up to walls and floors MARTIN TWAMLEY EXPLAINS WHICH TYPES 1,250mm. In practice, the length of the often in high-rise ARE SUITED TO WHICH APPLICATIONS spans depends on loading conditions. applications. On the practical side, the lightweight Steel and concrete are the dominant developments and extensions. But nature of timber makes it relatively Key standards structural materials in construction, engineered timber is also suitable for easy to handle. Conventional tools and for engineered but they are relatively new technolo- large-scale commercial projects which techniques can be used with structural timber gies. We built for thousands of years use cross-laminated timber (CLT) and timber, so onsite adjustments are Design of timber with natural materials and it was only glued-laminated veneer lumber (GLVL) straightforward to accommodate. structures: the onset of the industrial revolution (see box: Types of engineered timber). Structural timber’s sustainability is l BS EN 1995-1-1 that saw the wide uptake of man-made Long spans can easily be accommo- best assessed by including embodied Eurocode 5, plus the relevant National alternatives. dated by increasing the depth of the energy, which measures environmental Annex (UK NA). However, as raw materials become sections used, with limited impact on impact through a material’s entire l PD 6693-1. scarce and expensive to extract, and weight. This can be illustrated by a life cycle, from felling trees through Non-contradictory with concerns about their sustainability like-for-like comparison of steel and manufacture, delivery, use and disposal. complementary credentials, there is an argument in timber beams with the same bending According to a study by the University information to BS EN 1995-1-1 Eurocode 5. support of switching to timber for more of Massachusetts, the embodied energy l BS EN 1995-1-1 structural applications. for timber is 2.0MJ/kg, compared to Eurocode 5 also Incorporating engineered timber “Long spans can easily 10.50MJ/kg for steel and 12.50MJ/kg includes structural increases the structural possibilities be accommodated by for concrete. Additionally, wood acts fire design, including char and makes better use of a natural increasing the depths of the as a carbon store by locking CO in its sections used, with limited 2 rating calculations. resource. Combining structural timber structure. Timber trade body Wood Sustainable sourcing with natural insulation also means a impact on weight” for Good estimates an additional 3.81 certifications: l Forest Stewardship healthy internal climate with quanti- million tonnes of CO2 would be locked fiable benefits for the occupants. away each year if UK housing targets Council (FSC). l Programme for ● Currently, the majority of structural were met with timber-frame homes. the Endorsement of timber used is in roof trusses and floors. Martin Twamley is technical Forest Certification It is common in smaller-scale residential manager of Steico. (PEFC).
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Gordon Ewbank Wood Protection Association
frame, roof trusses, window frames and tiling How does treated timber battens. These products do not usually extend into the living space but are integral to the affect indoor air quality? building structure. The tests found that emissions from treated WITH MOUNTING CONCERNS OVER THE timber were minor, due to the low volatility of the QUALITY OF THE AIR WE BREATHE, A RECENT active substances in the treated wood. Moreover, STUDY EXAMINED THE IMPACT OF TIMBER as preserved timber products are not usually TREATMENTS. GORDON EWBANK EXPLAINS used within our living spaces, any emissions would need to pass through insulation, lining We now spend 90% of our time indoors and boards, plasterboards, paints or decorative it’s widely accepted that the indoor environ- coatings before they reach the indoor air. ment in our homes, schools and workplaces The study concluded that preservative can have a significant impact on our health. pre-treated wood poses no threat to indoor And while recent governments have air quality, stating that: “The available concentrated on making improvements to scientific evidence suggests that emissions outside air quality through reduced vehicle from preservative treated wood particles to air emissions, until recently the focus on indoor are small and, further to that, the complexity air quality has lagged behind. of the pathway from air within the building However, the issue of indoor air quality envelope/cavity to the indoor air compartment and its impact on health and wellbeing is now means that the concentration reaching indoor gathering momentum. In particular, questions air is negligible. Thus, the evidence indicates are being asked about the effects of products preservative-treated wood poses no threat to used for construction, including timber. indoor air quality.” The Wood Protection Association Timber remains one of the most sustainable commissioned the BRE to look at preservative building materials available and the safe pre-treated wood used in construction. The and appropriate use of preservatives can study examined all the available scientific help to enhance its performance for specific evidence, to help understand how treated applications. Preservative pre-treatment timber performs in the context of air quality extends the service life of wood for many years. within buildings. At the end of the its life, treated wood can often Preserved timber is present in a large be reused or recycled. ● range of construction products in our homes, Gordon Ewbank is chief executive of the including parts of the structural timber Wood Protection Association.
Key points to consider when specifying treated timber
First, always ask the question, the appropriate treatment for the an internal floor joist for long-term l The use class. does the wood need preservative end use of the timber by selecting protection. More details at: www. l The species of wood. treatment? This will depend on the appropriate use class. For wood-protection.org/preservation/ l The component description, for what the timber will be used for, the example, different treatments are british-standards-use-classes. example fence post, cladding. potential risks and consequences appropriate for fencing or decking, The British Standard for wood l The desired service life: 15, 30, of premature failure and the natural joinery or structural applications. preservation is BS 8417. This code 60 years. durability of the chosen wood. An outdoor deck or fence post in of practice defines treatment The Wood Protection Association Don’t assume all treated wood contact with the ground will require by preservative and retention provides guidance on specification is the same. Make sure you choose higher levels of preservative than requirements by: of all wood protection systems.
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Woven willow panels on offsite- manufactured office The new south- east office of Homes England in Northstowe, Cambridgeshire, will feature a canopy of locally manufactured woven willow hurdles set within steel frames. Architect Proctor and Matthews’ design references the coppicing and weaving heritage of the Fenland area. The building also features an “open weave” of vertical timber battens that wraps the ground and first floor office space. The 620 sq m office is being built offsite by modular specialist McAvoy, which is main contractor. FIVE INNOVATIVE USES OF TIMBER ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS CM TAKES A LOOK AT HOW TIMBER IS BEING USED TO DELIVER UNUSUAL DESIGNS, ACCELERATE PROGRAMMES AND BOOST SUSTAINABILITY CREDENTIALS ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AROUND THE UK
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The UK’s largest Passivhaus secondary school Willmott Dixon is building the largest Passivhaus-certified secondary school in the UK, which includes a CLT frame. The Harris Academy in Sutton, south London, was keen to create a “healthy” learning environment using natural materials. The CLT was supplied by KLH and the four-storey scheme also features timber cladding, provided by joinery firm NHE. Designed by Architype, the project is targeting a BREEAM Excellent rating. London’s newest – and longest – pier Housebuilder Ballymore has begun construction of a new timber pier at West Silvertown in London’s Docklands. The 162m-long structure, designed by architect Nex, extends out into the Thames in a dog-leg shape and will include a covered waiting area for Thames Clipper ferry passengers. The pier, which will be the longest in the capital, has integrated seating and is finished with marine grade timber.
225 timber-frame homes Glulam portal erected in 29 weeks frames form The last of 225 timber frame kits has community hall been installed by Taylor Lane, working for Storey’s Field Centre housebuilder Lovell on the Salisbury Plain and Eddington Service Family Accommodation (SFA) site Nursery in Eddington, in Bulford, Wiltshire. The manufacturer is Cambridgeshire, supplying its 140mm timber frame system, includes a 15m-high with pre-insulated panels, for detached and main hall, which uses semi-detached houses and bungalows to an exposed, articulated accommodate personnel returning from timber structure. Germany. Taylor Lane handed over 13 plots a The glulam portal week on average, completing in 29 weeks. frames rise from the oak-panelled base, with a backdrop of ash veneered panelling. The ceiling’s layered ash joists, battens and veneered plywood conceal air extract routes. The development was designed by McInnes Usher McKnight Architects. Farrans was main contractor, while CW Fields carried out the joinery.
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Standing, from left: Grayham Roper (Hoare Lea); Nicola Pearson HOW CAN CONSULTANTS (change manager, CDBB, observer); Jason Whittall (One Creative MEET THE CHALLENGE Environments); Joe Stott (AHR); Graeme Wildridge (BIM lead, Defence Infrastructure Organisation, OF BIM LEVEL 2 DELIVERY? observer); Fiona Moore (CDBB); Julian Kent (Buro Four); Sarah FOR THE THIRD IN OUR SERIES OF DIGITAL DEBATES, IN PARTNERSHIP Davidson (University of Nottingham); Mark O’Connor (Wood); James WITH THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL BUILT BRITAIN, SENIOR CONSULTANTS Colclough (Aecom). Seated: DISCUSSED THEIR EXPERIENCES OF WORKING TO BIM LEVEL 2 AND HOW Terry Stocks (CDBB); Emma Hooper THEY CAN IMPROVE DELIVERY OF A DIGITAL BUILT BRITAIN. CM REPORTS (Bond Bryan Digital)
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What would help consultants improve BIM Level 2 delivery?
also provides consultancy to Gleeds, Jason Whittall Mark O’Connor agreed. “Client leadership is helpful One Creative Wood Environments Approaching for driving consistency and a whole- We don’t engagement “The challenge we have is project-team approach so that we are, see enough with clients with that senior people want to talk as a team, focused on data,” she said. examples – not just the entire life cycle in mind about BIM Level 2 and smart Consultants generally have a cost-benefit analysis, but will provide greater clarity for cities, whereas others are still “vanilla” BIM offering, but anything a working computer-aided them about what they need. facilities management Our role as consultants is to asking what BIM is” more is usually client-dependent. (CAFM) system, that facilitate that and move them Mac Muzvimwe, Arcadis Mac Muzvimwe, BIM and digital has been created from along the maturity scale. BIM transformation lead at Arcadis, said: “We information in a BIM model. Level 2 is part of that. Effective, blended teams are also key. design in a 3D environment as a starting James Consultants need to listen carefully to point, up to LOD [level of detail] 3. That Colclough Grayham Roper clients’ requirements and support them is a core service. Beyond that, more fees Aecom Hoare Lea Our focus is in finding the best way to implement are involved. Our challenge is, the client We see communicating ourselves as a BIM on their projects. That was one of often doesn’t want to do anything extra.” what digital means. The service provider, the key messages that came out of CM’s “Tier 1 constructors reported that term BIM is often confused translating what clients latest digital round table organised in their digital approach is similar, in our with 3D modelling and that want. If we can automate partnership with the Centre for Digital last round table,” noted Stocks. is why I like the term “digital BIM processes as part of agenda” – it is more holistic our service, we can spend Built Britain (CDBB). and inclusive. more time with our clients The event, the third of its kind hosted Selling the benefits of BIM Julian Kent trying to find out what it is at the Chartered Institute of Building However, while many tier 1 constructors Buro Four they actually want out of (CIOB) central London office, asked saw benefits from internal efficiencies At early stages of their building. consultants to examine how BIM is or risk mitigation in their digital discussions with Emma Hooper currently being adopted to inform strategies, this was less the case among clients about Bond Bryan the future CDBB agenda, as well as consultants. projects, we should be doing Digital a root cause analysis, looking highlight some of the constraints “The challenge that we have is that BIM is about at what we want to capture. information and they are facing. The discussion was senior people want to talk about BIM Not every client is informed, information must have a chaired by Terry Stocks, leader of the Level 2 and smart cities, whereas so it’s about asking the right purpose otherwise it is waste. CDBB BIM Level 2 workstream, and others are still asking what BIM is. As a questions in a format they Clients are key to the whole understand. Fiona Moore, BIM Level 2 programme business we have to bring those people process, and we need to work with them to understand manager at CDBB. up to speed,” said Muzvimwe. Sarah Davidson University of the what and the when. We From the start, it became clear Colclough felt that project managers Nottingham also need standardisation the consultants used BIM chiefly on can be particularly challenging in this We should if we are going to digitise projects where the client requests it. regard, given their focus on capital talk in plain the industry because it James Colclough, technical director delivery. “It is quite easy to sell BIM language with the client – creates repeatability and predictability, which helps at Aecom, explained that having clients at a high level because they understand what information, data, and models they want and how reduce risk. who fully understand the value of BIM the benefits. Project managers are they are going to receive Joe Stott helps to drive its adoption through inherently risk averse,” he asserted. this information. AHR the supply chain. “It is easier where Julian Kent, project director at Buro Mac Muzvimwe We need to look the clients are telling project teams: Four, countered that project managers Arcadis at the operational ‘You have got to do this’. It gives us are often under a lot of pressure: “The As consultants, phase of the the ability to communicate why they client only wants to spend a certain we need to projects. Yes, there is a understand capex saving with BIM, but have got to do it. Change happens more amount of money for each stage of BIM ourselves. Then we can the operational expenditure quickly,” he said. the project because of the risk profile. articulate it to clients and saving is the main agenda Sarah Davidson, associate professor There is a huge amount of pressure on understand how we can and we are not very good at at the University of Nottingham, who the team not to overspend.” improve it for them. focusing on that.
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Typically, if a project manager sends requests for proposals (RFPs) out to consultants and asks them to price the project for BIM Level 2, a higher price will come back which can be hard to sell to the client, Kent added. “Project managers understand the cost, but they don’t understand the value,” he continued. “That can be compounded by many clients taking a short-term view; they are simply concerned with whether or not a project is viable.” A barrier to BIM adoption frequently identified by this group was procurement Clockwise from top (see box), while clients were also left: Emma Hooper (Bond Bryan Digital) criticised for being “vague” about what with Grayham Roper they want. (Hoare Lea); James Joe Stott, architect and BIM manager Colclough (Aecom); at AHR, said the best clients are very Mark O’Connor (Wood); Mac prescriptive on BIM. “We work with Muzvimwe (Arcadis) some who take real ownership of the process,” he explained. “They will come to us and say: ‘I understand How is BIM affected by the requirements of BIM Level 2 and I have interpreted it this way, and this procurement? is exactly what I want.’ “Quite often one of my senior “We can’t really do anything without expertise around very complex and managers will ask: ‘How do we changing procurement,” argued sophisticated systems. Hooper. “We are working with a “If we were accountable through price BIM?’ They don’t necessarily broken framework and all we are performance measures, that would understand it and see a risk element.” doing with BIM, DfMA, the Internet of make a massive difference.” The cost concerns do not arise when Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence “With Integrated Project Insurance the client has clearly described how (AI) is papering over the cracks.” (IPI), these success criteria are agreed “We need to remove adversarial right at the start,” pointed out Hooper. BIM will be used, he added. behaviours.” Davidson agreed. An IPI approach is “truly “We can promote BIM as a form innovative”, agreed Stocks. “It is all of risk management methodology about getting the team together and Action or an assurance process. Grenfell not starting too early. It may be slow 1. 2. points for Consultant designers Wider internal BIM quite clearly shows that we need in the planning, but you know your and managers need training is essential assurance processes, so there is a risk, and it is quick in the delivery.” consultants to question and to bring the whole will and desire to work differently, However, Muzvimwe felt that from the challenge clients to business up to but this aspiration is getting addressing procurement was not debate identify their output speed – not just squashed through procurement,” the top priority. “The starting goals – it will help the digital leaders. she said. “This comes particularly point is how buildings can improve them understand at the point where we engage outcomes,” he said. “We need to how and why to with the specialist contractors understand those outcomes clients implement BIM on who have got a lot of the design want and what are trying to achieve.” their projects.
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From left: Julian Kent (Buro Four); Sarah Davidson (University of Nottingham)
“So there is a role here for consultants to engage with their clients, and support them in developing their data and delivery requirements, to aid clear “There is a role here for articulation in the construction tender,” consultants to engage with observed Stocks. their clients and support them Mark O’Connor, asset management in developing their data and lead for Wood’s environment and delivery requirements” infrastructure division, said he Joe Stott, AHR encourages clients to think about the whole life of their asset. “When they start the procurement process traditionally procured projects who or inherit an asset, we say that they follow the traditional S-shaped curve Consultants’ views on don’t inherit assets, they inherit of fee expenditure: more spent earlier liabilities. And it is only through a in the process, compared to traditional digital and DfMA strong, quality-assured process and routes, should give better outcomes – Moore asked the Kent added: “I think data that they drive that value and turn but should not necessarily mean more consultants whether that offsite fabrication is their liabilities into assets,” he said. fees overall.” design for manufacture and something that should Jason Whittall, director of One assembly (DfMA) and use of be embraced more. Does Barriers to early BIM use Creative Environments, said he standardised components it have an effect on the Other barriers cited by consultants frequently saw confusion about what – together known as deliverables? No. Does it platform-DfMA – would derisk it in relation to waste included limited time to facilitate the BIM process actually involves. enable them to cut down and time? Absolutely. BIM use early in the design process, “I see a lot of BIM execution plans the time required to “The downside though which they also saw as an obstacle to and proposed BIM deliverables and develop the design. is that you have to spend design for manufacture and assembly there is a huge variety in what people Davidson argued more time designing and that while these new coordinating and checking (DfMA) (see box). think BIM Level 2 is and what they think technologies reduce the total before you prefabricate. “The real benefit of BIM and the process is. PAS 1192 is quite a clear amount of time a project It comes back to trying collaborative design development process but it is amazing how many takes, it requires more time to explain to clients that is to get things right first time, different ways it is interpreted – and up front in order to work up a they need to spend more coordinating designs so that errors these are the people who are advising complete design. time planning followed “I just wonder, with the by a very short delivery are made in a virtual (and cheaper) clients,” he said. way that construction is period and sometimes world,” said Stocks. “This means Emma Hooper, digital information financed, if that is dissuading clients get a little bit increasing the proportion of early stage specialist at Bond Bryan Digital, this approach,” she said. nervous about that.” fees expenditure away from the more believes BIM should be quite a
3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Promote more Use of BIM during Think beyond Explore and Remind clients of Capture, measure Work digitally to collaborative the design phase capital delivery and understand the their duty-holder and share the reduce risk and procurement flushes out errors keep in mind how advantages of responsibilities and benefits of using boost efficiency. models to facilitate and should mean data can be used employing why BIM adoption BIM so clients and “Vanilla” BIM greater adoption quicker capital in the operational information fits with Dame the wider industry means costs of BIM. delivery, while phase. managers. Judith Hackitt’s understand its passed on also encouraging “golden thread”. rationale. are limited to DfMA adoption, as additional roles understanding of or enhanced it increases. deliverables.
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“When a client sells a building it must have an EPC. Why not say that a client must also provide a minimum level of information?” Jason Whittall, One Creative Environments
pages of documents but they don’t responsibilities and a “golden thread” tell you anything. People are getting of information for every building. really confused and wrapped up in “Information isn’t just about saving Construction Operations Building money, it is about environmental Information Exchange [COBie] and factors and safety factors,” he said. data which they are never going to use.” “In the oil and gas sector, the duty Most members of the group are holder has that role for 30-40 years exploring offering an information so tends to value the ‘golden thread’ management service – advising clients more,” said O’Connor. on using data to improve their asset “If we draw a comparison with management – but there is limited energy performance certificates Above, from left: straightforward process – so long as demand at present. One issue raised [EPCs], could a similar approach be Mark O’Connor clients and consultants remember the was the lack of information manager taken with building data?” asked (Wood); Joe Stott principles behind it candidates in the job market, and what Whittall. “When a client sells a building, (AHR) “I see BIM as just about information that role may look like (see box). it must have an EPC. Why not say that management,” she said. “It is what Whittall pointed out a link between a client must also provide a minimum we have always done. It is part of an the information management level of information?” ecosystem, where you need inputs to requirement, the principal designer Whittall would like to see govern- make outputs – and it is the client that role in the Construction Design & ment drive BIM harder than just central generates the inputs. Management (CDM) regulations, government mandated departments, “Many employers’ information and Dame Judith Hackitt’s report pointing out that while departments requirements [EIRs] are pages and calling for more rigorous duty holder like the Ministry of Justice have been good at implementing the government’s 2016 mandate, those The role of the information manager organisations within the NHS and education that are part-funded by a Information management is beginning “Quite often the responsibility gets pension or investment firm sometimes to emerge as a built environment pushed onto an architect,” he said. try to argue that the mandate does job role in its own right, but our “The role is about working across consultants group find it difficult people, process and technology and not apply them. to recruit for. understanding all kinds of information “I think the mandate could be given “It is hard to make the role of and how they join up on a project. more teeth,” he said. information manager attractive to a Fundamentally, the information trained engineer,” said Colclough. manager should be able to reduce Understanding value Moore asked if the job needs to be information waste on a project. filled from someone within the industry, “But I do think they need While the consultants agreed that or whether they can be recruited from construction knowledge,” he added. helping clients understand the value of outside. O’Connor recounted his experience BIM would drive its adoption, few could Whittall doesn’t see it as a on HS1, where he recruited a data provide evidence of BIM benefits being construction role. “We are seeing an analyst. “After I had my data analyst increase in requests for quotations for about six months, all the other captured and measured. Moore urged: to provide information management teams on the project wanted one,” “We need to see a tangible benefit services but there are limited people he recalled. because people need to understand who can do it and have the right “It would be great to see large the beneficial outcome for them.” mindset,” he said. portfolio clients using an information Stocks added: “We need case studies Grayham Roper, BIM manager at manager that works within the project Hoare Lea, thinks clients need to environment, setting corporate data that prove where the benefits are. The appreciate the value of employing an standards and requirements for asset data is no good if it is all kept close information manager. data,” said Stocks. to someone’s chest. It is only really powerful if we can share it.” ●
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Providing friendly advice to family Lejonvarn argued there was no basis or neighbours is not uncommon for for the claim as she provided free advice construction professionals. But the on a friendly basis, in a “non-commercial, case of Burgess and another v Lejonvarn informal and social context”. should give pause for thought. The question of responsibility for the Architect Basia Lejonvarn advised advice made its way up to the Court of Peter and Lynn Burgess on landscaping Appeal before the High Court then dealt the garden at their £5m London home. with the amount of the claim. But the couple blamed Lejonvarn for The Court of Appeal decided in April defects and cost overruns to the tune 2017 there was no contract between the of £265,000 – and took her to court. parties – but said that where a party The Burgesses decided to landscape voluntarily tenders skilled advice or their garden back in 2012. A quotation services, in circumstances where they of £155,837 plus a planting budget of know that advice will be relied on by £19,785 was quoted by Mark Enright of the recipient, then liability can arise. the Landscape Garden Company. The However, there were questions over the couple liked the plan,but regarded the scope of Lejonvarn’s advice. quotation as being too expensive. In short, the Burgesses needed to set Lejonvarn was a friend and former out what services Lejonvarn actually neighbour of the Burgesses. She is an provided. It was not enough to contend American-qualified architect although that she should have delivered certain not registered in the UK. In spring 2013, services, if these were outside the scope she set up her own practice. of the retainer. The Burgesses asked Lejonvarn for The case returned to the High Court Christopher Reeves help. She secured a contractor to carry in late 2018, where the Burgesses failed Mediation for out the earthworks and hard landscaping to make out their case, and could not Construction and a quotation was provided. She actually prove that they suffered any loss. intended to provide subsequent design It held that Lejonvarn did not breach work for the “soft” elements of the any duty owed to the Burgesses, and When ‘friendly’ project, such as lighting and planting, said the scope of her duty was limited for which she would charge a fee. to those services she did provide. It also advice leads The project never got that far. The criticised the “scattergun approach” Burgesses were unhappy with the quality taken by the couple against Lejonvarn, to court and progress of the work and Lejonvarn’s alleging various breaches of duty, and involvement came to an end in July 2013. the unrealistic nature of the claim. THE DANGERS OF MIXING WORK The dispute went to court in 2016. The claim was dismissed, with the AND FRIENDSHIP, PARTICULARLY The Burgesses claimed that much question of costs to be determined, WITHOUT A WRITTEN CONTRACT, of the work done during Lejonvarn’s unless agreed by the parties. WERE DEMONSTRATED IN THE involvement was defective, and that The case highlights the importance BURGESSES V LEJONVARN CASE, she was legally responsible for it. of having robust written appointment SAYS CHRISTOPHER REEVES They claimed damages exceeding documents, as well as the risks in taking their original £130,000 budget for the on work where the formalities are not works. The couple claimed Lejonvarn clear – even for friends and family. ● assumed legal responsibility for the Christopher Reeves is a construction professional services by acting as lawyer and founder of Mediation for architect and project manager. Construction.
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CIMC v Bennett: milestone payments A SHIPLOAD OF MODULAR BEDROOM UNITS FROM CHINA LED TO A DISPUTE OVER THE PAYMENT MECHANISM, WITH THE COURT RULING PROVIDING CLARITY OVER MILESTONE PAYMENTS. ROBERT BURNS EXPLAINS
Section 110 of the Construction Act The five to England. The agreement between attempts to bring certainty to the pay- milestone Bennett and CIMC was a construction “There were no determinable ment terms of construction contracts. payments contract and so the Construction Act, criteria for establishing Section 110(1) states that every and Section 110, applied. when, or indeed whether, construction contract shall: 1. CIMC was appointed by Bennett under sign-off had occurred” l 20% of the provide an adequate mechanism for subcontract price a JCT form of contract. However, the determining what payments become to be paid on interim payment clauses were deleted due under the contract, and when; and execution of the and replaced with a bespoke set of l provide for a final date for payment in subcontract; milestone payments (see box). relation to any sum which becomes due. 2. CIMC’s lawyers challenged the The parties are free to agree the 30% on sign-off validity of milestones 2, 3 and 4, length of the period between the date of a prototype arguing they did not comply with when a sum becomes due and the final room in China Section 110(1) of the Construction Act, it would still generate uncertainty and by Bennett, the because: date for payment. employer and the cause for dispute – which Section 110(1) The courts have heard plenty of ultimate operator l The employer and the operator were was designed and drafted to prevent. cases involving the Construction Act, of the hotel; not parties to the subcontract, and the Milestone 4 was held to be in largely related to the form and timing details around sign-off were vague; adherence of Section 110(1). It was 3. l of payment applications, payment 30% on sign-off of There were no determinable criteria significantly differently worded from notices and pay less notices. Now we all snagging items for establishing when, or indeed 1 and 2, and the court considered also have guidance from the court on by Bennett, the whether, sign-off had occurred; and it simply meant proof of delivery in its interpretation of Section 110(1), employer and the l As no time was stated for sign-off, Southampton, once the bedroom units operator, again CIMC there was no due date or final date following last year’s ruling on in China; were discharged from the vessel which MBS (formerly Verbus Systems) v for payment. brought them from China. Bennett Construction. 4. The court found that milestones CIMC’s argument against milestone 4 The court was asked to decide on the 10% on sign-off 2 and 3 did not constitute an was that a check for damage would of units in legislative validity of a set of milestone Southampton; and adequate payment mechanism under need to occur. But the court held that payments. They are a common payment Section 110(1) of the Construction Act. discharge from the vessel would suffice. mechanism, but are they adequate 5. They were lacking specific criteria and It is worth noting that the court held 10% on completion timescales for sign-off, and these would when measured against Section 110(1)? of installation that the use of milestone payments in Bennett was the main contractor for a and snagging. be required in order to get over the this case was not contrary to Section 110 design-and-build new hotel in London. hurdle set by Section 110(1). – the issue was that the triggers for the CIMC was the subcontractor appointed Nowhere did the payment terms or payments were not adequately defined by Bennett to design, supply and install the specification state by what date the and ascertainable. ● modular bedroom units. These were sign-off must be done. The court did not Robert Burns is a solicitor and senior to be made in China and then shipped feel “reasonable time” could be used as associate at Quigg Golden.
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and recognise the achievements of the person and not the project. CIOB chief executive, Chris Blythe, said: “CMYA has always been a unique barometer for management and leadership talent in our sector and in our 40th year it was no exception. I fully expect 2019 to be even bigger and better and present us with fierce competition from the finest managers in the industry.” The 2018 winner, Neil Lock MCIOB of Wates Construction, said: “Being CMYA The Construction Manager of the Year Above right: Neil recognised for what you do day in, day Awards (CMYA) 2019 are now open Lock MCIOB winner out, is just brilliant.” ● of the 2018 CMYA for entries. And the award for the The CMYA, the CIOB’s annual celebra- basement gallery To register your interest, winner is... tion for industry talent will officially for the V&A Museum visit: www.cmya.co.uk/ open in January 2019, having celebrated (above) register-your-interest/ 40 years of the awards in 2018. The CMYA annual dinner, celebrating Completely free to enter, the CMYA all the finalists and announcing CMYA 2019, THE OSCARS FOR has a reputation for showcasing the the overall winner, will be on 18 CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS, very finest talent in construction and is September 2019 at the JW Marriott, OPEN FOR ENTRIES unique in the sector as they celebrate Grosvenor House Hotel, London.
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Roof repairs to Tredegar House. The restoration work includes the replacement of 35
ROBIN DRAYTON tonnes of Welsh slate.
TRAINING also an integral part of the CIOB Conservation Conservation Certification scheme COMPETITION which requires all those applying Students take course kicks off for Certification to successfully complete this course unless they their marks have an approved qualification in CIOB ACADEMY COURSE the subject. The course however is LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR THE ON TRADITIONAL BUILDING stand alone and those participating CIOB GLOBAL STUDENT CHALLENGE MANAGEMENT need not be CIOB members or have an interest in the CIOB The annual CIOB Global The 'Early Years' stage The CIOB Academy is offering a Conservation Certification scheme. Student Challenge opened starts a few weeks later. conservation course this month in It is an ideal grounding to all those for registration at the end The competition hots up London and Swansea. Understanding new to conservation and seeking of last year and there are at this point, with teams Building Conservation is a two-day to improve results for clients on already teams signing up playing competitively course designed to improve decision- conservation projects. from all over the world. against other teams around The CIOB is seeking the world, making decisions making when working on and managing The course costs £295 and will teams made up of full-time that influence the success traditional buildings, including both be delivered by John Edwards students studying a degree of their companies. unprotected traditional buildings, who is also the CIOB’s lead assessor in the built environment. More than 60 teams and those which are protected due to on the CIOB’s Conservation Cert- The winning team receives entered the 2018 ● £2000 in prize money, along competition, with the six their historic significance. ification Scheme. with access to a mentoring teams scoring the most in Open to anyone who works with programme in which the early rounds making it traditional buildings the course is Book at www.ciobacademy.org industry leaders provide to the finals which made up advice and guidance to part of the CIOB’s Members' support the winning teams’ Forum. This year, both professional development. events will once again be CIOB’s Global Student run alongside each other, Challenge is a real test of this time in Edinburgh, at construction industry know- the Hilton Carlton, in June. It how, taking place in stages means the finalists, as well over a number of months. as competing to win the The competition provides Global Student Challenge a realistic simulation title, will also be a part of where teams run their own the Members' Forum and construction company. get to network with senior There’s a 'Foundation construction professionals Years' stage, in which from all over the world. competitors learn how to The competition is play the game, running their only open to full-time construction company in students, although there a simulated environment is an allowance of one using the MERIT software, postgraduate member per testing different strategies team. Teams are normally and refining tactics for the made up of four members, competitive game. The but three is permissible. CIOB advises that, based Costs remain the same on performance in previous as last year - details can years, teams who do well be found on the web site: in the competition are https://gsc.ciob.org/
RICTOR NORTON & DAVID ALLEN & DAVID NORTON RICTOR the ones who make the Registration closes on most of this stage. Tredegar House, Newport a 17th-century mansion house and its surrounding gardens are 28 February 2019. undergoing repair and redevelopment of a number of areas of the property.
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“It comprises a steel frame and brick outer leaf of over 12,000 special individual bricks”
Site visit BRISTOL Members STUDENTS ENCOURAGED invited to see TO JOIN THE CIOB Osborne’s The Bristol Novus group, together with the University Hobhouse West of England, ran several project presentations to new students recently promoting SITE VISIT TO CENTRAL the benefits of LONDON BUILD CIOB membership. All new student memberships received had an opportunity to win one of three CIOB construction management books. The group also engaged with first year students helping The design includes 20 high-end bricks. The site visit will show The CIOB London Novus is teaming out with the ‘pyramid 2 up with Osborne to host a site visit apartments, 1,100m office and the erection of the sip panels, game’ in which each to its Hobhouse project. The Hob- 650m2 retail space. The redeve- brick install, M&E works, window student team was house estate holding companies lopment will also see the return of install, and the basement grade 2 challenged to quote for and awarded Osborne a £31m contract the prestigious Royal Watercolour listed vaults. ● build a pyramid, in 2017 for the Arquitectonica- Society to its original home. choosing the designed (in association with Brisac The project is due to complete The visit takes place at 2pm location, building Gonzalez) mixed-use development this year. It comprises a steel frame (please arrive 10 minutes early tactics/methods, on Whitcomb Street, next to with an infill of structurally insulated to register) on 13 February at calculate costs and then present with Trafalgar Square and the National panels and brick outer leaf, a total Hobhouse Court, 3-17 Whitcomb a model to the Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing. of over 12,000 special individual Street, London, WC2H 7HA Novus group.
Obituary We were all saddened to hear of in 2007. He had such a calming he became the East of England Andy’s passing, and have fond welcoming nature it made my Branch vice chair for five years Andy Smith memories of his time in the CIOB involvement in the CIOB feel so from 2007 to 2012 which followed for the East of England Branch and much more worthwhile. From the on from his time as a Professional Norfolk Centre which spanned moment I joined the committee Review Panel Member and chair. 2006 to 2015. Andy was also vice to becoming Andy’s vice chair of Our thoughts and prayers chair of the Faculty of Architecture the Norfolk Centre, Andy was so are with Andy's family, at this & Surveying in 2004. supportive and really enthused sad time. Andy was a wonderful NICK CALTON PAST CHAIR I first met Andy when he was the whole committee to help us man and he left a memorable OF NORWICH HUB PAYS vice chair of the Norfolk Centre build a very successful Centre. mark on the CIOB, that continues TRIBUTE TO ANDY SMITH from 2006 then becoming chair This energy shone through when to this day.
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CPD Pay attention to retention AHEAD OF GOVERNMENT ACTION ON RETENTIONS STUART WILKS FOLLOWS UP FROM A RECENT CPD
Site visit and a brand new college, together totalling 1000 student bed spaces. University The facilities will be self-catering, features in with a mix of ensuite rooms, members’ futures shared bathrooms, cluster flats and townhouses. Each college will have A TOUR OF NEW DURHAM its own central administrative and SCHEME PLANNED social space. There will also be a University Hub building, with an events hall suitable for formal dining for up to 300, gym, Members in the North East can look music practice rooms, a performance Retention payments remain a frac- tious issue for the construction forward to a tour of Interserve’s Mount practice room, a Yoga/dance studio, a industry. It’s currently estimated Oswald project – an £80m scheme launderette and a faith room, plus a around £6bn a year is held up in for Durham University to develop Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA). retentions. new college and student facilities. The Hub and MUGA are scheduled The London HUB seminar with BESA The scheme forms part of the to come into use in autumn 2019 and law firm Fenwick Elliott aimed to find out what’s being done. It’s now University’s strategy to deliver and the first students will move into anticipated that things will change world-class research, education the residential facilities for the soon. The Aldous bill, put forward by and a wider student experience. The academic year 2020/21. ● MP Peter Aldous has full support of project involves the construction of one in four MPs. At the very least, it’s Below: The Durham anticipated there will be a significant a new home for John Snow College Look out for site visit details soon. University plans change in the law in 2019. Dave Bebb of Fenwick Elliott pointed out that there’s no obligation to have retentions in your contract, it’s something you can negotiate. So if possible, have them taken out. There’s nothing in the construction act to suggest they have to exist at all. But the act does demand an ‘adequate mechanism’ for releasing money to sub-contractors. Being paid when the main contractor is paid, isn’t an ‘adequate mechanism’. The scheme proposed in the Aldous bill is like that for domestic tenants. Landlords must now hold money for rent deposits securely. The money then can’t disappear before it’s due to be re-paid. However, Dave pointed out that determining entitlement for construction retentions might be more troublesome than a tenancy agree- ment. Both in terms of complexity of assessment and the amounts due. Following the talk, construction minister Richard Harrington confirmed that the Government will make an announcement on retentions very soon.
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Events Also on the technology theme will be events in Loughborough and Hemel Midlands on drones. They will highlight the increasing reliance on drone and satellite technology in the industry. banks on a In May in Bedford, James Simpson from ADAS will present Our Ecology good year – Opportunities and Value when CIOB HUBS LAY OUT 2019 EVENTS developing land. James is passionate about how the construction industry can work with ecologists; he has written The four Midland hubs have launched articles on how ecological concerns do a packed programme of events for 2019 not have to be seen as an obstacle. with the focus on quality, advances Returning for 2019, the Celebrating in technology and off-site, building Construction Awards at the ICC defects, sustainability and ecology. promises to be the best year yet for the There will be topic specific CPD talks awards with a high calibre of industry and interesting site visits to projects leading companies and inspiring such as HS2, the Derby Silk Mill and projects expected to enter the 14 the Commonwealth Games athletes’ different categories. The closing date village and stadium. Professional for West Midlands award entries is the review workshops are also planned 15 February and you can view and enter throughout the year. any of the categories at: www.west. One standout event will be held Paul Nash will Speakers from the CIOB Academy, celebratingconstructionawards.org ● at Twycross Zoo in March, Quality present the Quality Employer Engagement and CITB in Construction in Construction, with guest speaker will also feature along with time for work from the CIOB Paul Nash (CIOB Past President). at Twycross Zoo networking and a fascinating insight For more details and a full Paul will be presenting the work in March, which from Twycross Zoo on their project programme of events contact of the CIOB’s construction quality will also include a work, including the ProCon award Birmingham & Nottingham Hubs: commission, which was set up in the presentation about winning Chimp Eden. Georgina Floyd [email protected] the Chimp Eden wake of the Edinburgh Schools report project Digitisation of Off-site Construction Northampton & Hemel Hubs: to investigate the issue of quality in the with the MacAvoy Group will be held Sonia Short [email protected] . industry and what needs to be done to in the Hemel and Nottingham hubs Full events listing improve it. and looks at the latest techniques. https://events.ciob.org
Event Shirley McCay, 2018 world cup finalist and highest capped player for the Ireland World cup finalist to women's hockey team, will be the guest speaker at the CIOB Annual Dinner event on speak at CIOB annual 22 February at the Hilton Hotel in Belfast. dinner in Belfast The popular event attracts over 200 leading construction professionals each year and will be compered by TV personality Adrian Logan. Tickets, as well as sponsorship opportunities LAST CHANCE TO BOOK FOR are still available. Contact Julie Fitzsimmons DINNER AND AWARDS EVENT [email protected].
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Tony Bellamy MCIOB Meet a member
Tony Bellamy MCIOB is senior site manager at Interserve and became chair of the Newcastle HUB in January.
Events Belfast Hub Annual Dinner what was the Durham and Wearside February 22, 2019, Belfast Committee through a colleague and did Diary dates The Annual Dinner and this for two years. I mainly helped out presentation of awards at the on the CIOB/NOVUS Student Challenge, HIGHLIGHTS OF THE Hilton Hotel in Belfast (see which is very popular and successful CIOB CALENDAR FOR opposite page). within the North East. When it became Individual and corporate the One CIOB, I sent my application off THE COMING MONTH. table bookings are being taken. to join the Newcastle Hub, which was FOR MORE EVENTS Contact: Julie Fitzsimmons at to cater for the whole of the North East VISIT CIOB.ORG [email protected] of England. or Rachel Corbally email: I was fortunate to have my application [email protected] approved and immediately put my nomination forward to become vice Digitising Offsite Construction CHF 302 Modern Slavery How did you get into construction chair. I was lucky enough to be voted in February 6, 6pm Holiday Inn, 260219 and why? by my fellow committee members and Hemel Hempstead February 26, 7pm, Chelmsford I actually stumbled upon working in held this role for two years. McAvoy Group, offsite Essex Police discuss the construction by chance. I was working I became involved with my Hub construction specialists deliver different characteristics in the leisure industry at the age of 18 because I wanted to contribute and a key-note presentation on the that distinguish slavery from when I was reluctantly paid off due to help make a difference to North East latest techniques for digitising other human rights violations. staffing cuts. This was back in 1988 construction. This industry has given construction and how the new Contemporary slavery takes and at the time my father was working me so much and has been my life for the technology is taking offsite various forms and affects for RM Douglas (which later became last 30-plus years, so giving something construction to the next level. people of all ages, gender and Tilbury Douglas, followed by the name back is the right thing to do. Contact: Sonia Short races. Modern Slavery is illegal. we all know these days, Interserve [email protected] Contact: Chia Oh at Construction) and they were looking Where would you like to see your career [email protected] for apprentice joiners. He asked if I was progressing? Ambitions? UCLan Masterplan interested in this position. It didn’t take I am now in my 30th year working for February 6, 6pm, Preston Hub in the Pub me long to accept this offer and for 18 Interserve and they have trained me In 2015, the University of February 27, 7pm London months I learnt my trade to become a and looked after me from being that Central Lancashire (UCLan) Join the CIOB London Hub time served joiner and in January 1990 apprentice joiner, up to my current unveiled its Preston Campus Committee and London Novus I was fully qualified. It was the best position of senior site manager. I am through a £200m Campus group for their laid back social decision I could have made. very ambitious and moving up the ladder Masterplan development. gathering, Hub in the Pub. This is something I am always striving for. The delivery of the first phase monthly event takes place on What change would you like to see As well as looking at my future with will include new buildings, the forth Wednesday of every in construction? Interserve, I will always be on hand to green spaces, class-leading month, and allows members On a personal note and something I help and work with the CIOB in whatever technologies and infrastructure. and non-members to meet believe in is, we need to bring more capacity I can, once my two years as The evening will consist of with committee members and trade apprentices through, men and chair is completed. presentations about the Novus group to find out more women. We have a lot of personnel current projects. about what is happening in and coming up to retirement age that How do you spend your spare time? Contact: [email protected] around London. Location: The need to be replaced with the younger I have a daughter who is at Middlesex Theodore Bullfrog, 26-30 John generation. If we can get this generation University studying Fashion and Textiles Nansledan School Newquay Adam Street, WC2N 6HL in now, they can learn from the and a 15 year-old son in his last year Site Visit personnel before they retire. For the a school. They both keep me busy February 13, 2.30pm Newquay Construction Law Update past two years I have worked closely and on my toes, especially my son Site Visit to Nansledan School, February 26, 6pm Kegworth, with the Newcastle NOVUS Group and who is a very talented runner for his Newquay, a brand new school Derbyshire we have toured and carried out talks at age. He is the current u17 men 1500m due to open in September 2019 A construction law update schools and colleges throughout the England Champion and finished 2018, to cater for 420 local children. with Philip Harris, partner and North East, encouraging the younger ranked number 10 in the country for Work is now well underway on construction solicitor at Wright generation to consider construction this distance. He runs throughout the the 14 classroom primary school Hassall. The session will cover: as a career. country, so as you may have guessed, on this 4.7 hectare site. Getting paid and cashflow; I am his taxi driver and take him here, Contact: [email protected] contract clauses on liquidated Why have you become involved there and everywhere. When I do get damages; liability for fitness for with the CIOB locally? a bit of spare time for myself, I am a bit purpose in the goods supplied. I have been involved locally with the of film buff and enjoy watching many Contact: [email protected] CIOB for the past four years. I first joined genres of films.
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Below: The new Guildford Fire Station, one of three similar projects managed by Sue Hanford
Me and my project Emergency call PROJECT MANAGER FOR SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL SUE HANFORD TALKS US THROUGH THE LATEST FIRE STATION BUILD WHICH DELIVERED UNEXPECTED SURPRISES
I have project managed three of the new build fire station projects on behalf of Surrey County Council and one of my current projects is the new-build Fordbridge Fire Station in Ashford Surrey. I have worked with Surrey Fire & Rescue Service for several years now, and in that time I have learnt a great deal about its work and the building and training requirements necessary to facilitate its essential role. The new Guildford Fire Station is now located close to the previous old “The flints that are fully accessible and meet There weren’t any, but we lost a couple building originally built in 1936, and have been equality and diversity targets. of weeks until we knew it was safe to was my first fire station project. Right dated to return to site. from the start my brief from Surrey Fire the upper Bombs and ancient finds Mesolithic flints were found, as well & Rescue Service was the importance palaeolithic Prior to the build, however, the site as some Roman pottery, but the next of response times and operational age, which presented us with a number of chal- occurrence was the discovery of further assurance. goes back to lenges. Flints and Roman pottery were flints, all within a different area on site. Working with the design team and in over 10,000 previously found on the site in the 1970s This resulted in some extremely impor- consultation with SFRS, we designed a years ago” so I commissioned a team of archaeolo- tant finds – most unusually the flints building and training site to meet these Sue Hanford gists to excavate the site prior to any had remained in place for thousands of requirements. The new and subsequent construction works commencing. years as they have been dated back to fire stations include features such as Within the first few days on site the the upper palaeolithic age which goes enhanced training facilities including archaeologists unearthed a bomb. The back to over 10,000 years ago. a four-storey training house to further police were called and arranged for The find generated a great deal of improve firefighters’ competency in the evacuation of the fire station and excitement in the archaeology world working at height and dealing with surrounding buildings, and then the and we had visits from various profes- multi-storey incidents. army arrived to carry out a controlled sors and experts all wanting to see the An area for road traffic collision explosion. The bomb was found to be flints. There was an article in the local training allows for more realistic a WWII smoke bomb, most likely used paper, and I was subsequently inter- training simulations which mimic likely by the Home Guard for training. The viewed on BBC Radio Surrey. scenarios. Furthermore, the new fire archaeologists could not return to I enjoy my job and each time our new stations have been built to provide site until checks were carried out to fire stations become operational I feel modern, efficient, low cost premises ensure there were no further bombs. a great sense of achievement. ●
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