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HSE prepares wave of cladding replacement inspections Cladding removal on a high-rise block in Merseyside following fire safety tests However, in an unusual move, they will Combustible cladding ban SAFETY CONCERNS also be asking about whether the materials RAISED OVER ACM PANEL used to replace the ACM cladding are class comes into effect REMEDIATION WORK A1 or A2 under the European Reaction to The amendment Fire classification system and reporting to the Building their findings back to the Ministry of Housing Regulations which Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). prohibits the use of combustible cladding Ray Cooke, head of the HSE’s construction on buildings over 18m sector safety team, stressed that an came into effect on inspection by HSE did not necessarily mean 21 December 2018. the building was considered “high risk”, as The ban means that the only materials allowed are those classed as A1 or A2 under some of those identified by MHCLG have less the EN 13501 standard, which includes metal, The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will than 1% ACM cladding. stone and glass, or plasterboard. Plastics and undertake a wave of inspections of high-rise Meanwhile MHCLG figures at the end wood products will not be permitted. residential buildings over 18m in height of 2018 showed that more than a quarter The government has agreed a transitional where remediation of dangerous aluminium (41) of 160 public sector high-rise buildings period, so building work that starts within two months of 21 December will follow the composite material (ACM) cladding is with ACM cladding still hadn’t started regulations in place prior to this amendment. taking place. remediation work. Of the 272 privately owned The ban follows a consultation launched in Inspectors will look at the way work buildings clad with the material, 69 have no June by housing secretary James Brokenshire is being carried out, specifically as far as replacement plans. (pictured) and applies to high-rise buildings containing dwellings, plus hospitals, issues of fire safety and working at height Last month, the government handed powers residential care premises and student are concerned, rather than its compliance to local authorities to strip ACM cladding from accommodation. with Building Regulations. private housing blocks above 18m.

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‘Google revolution’ News in numbers for construction? 305 Height in metres of Government plans to use standardised Foster + Partners’ Tulip platforms for construction components tower in London. If built, could result in a “Google-style” revolution, it would be the City’s tallest building. says Mark Farmer, chief executive of consultancy Cast. “A common platform would mean 103 standardising the ‘chassis’ of a building – parts Average payment time of the structure, pipes, panelling and internal in days of contractor spaces can be mass-designed – while cladding Brown and Mason, Build UK’s slowest and brickwork would get wrapped over the payer of invoices. top to satisfy planners,” he said. Farmer, who is leading the Greater London Authority’s standardisation research, 24.1 said a construction platform would allow Percentage fall in apprenticeship starts manufacturers to follow a common design An electric exoskeleton that enables the wearer to lift 90kg for extended periods has been built by American firm Sarcos and is due to be commercially in 2017-18 on the year code, in the way that coders can create apps available in 2020. The Guardian XO Max is a full-body exoskeleton that cost before, following the that work seamlessly on any phone running $175m (£136.5m) to develop. It has a strength “amplification” of 20 to 1, apprenticeship levy Google’s Android operating system. making 45.4kg feel like 2.3kg to the person wearing the suit. introduction in May 2017. News in quotes Interview: Neil Lock, What was most challenging How were the judging visits? “A distraction” about the project? The visits are great and generally How Persimmon's 40th CMYA winner The logistics and the complete carried out by ex-professionals. It’s chairman described a control I needed to make the a joy to show off our achievements row over the £75m pay project run like clockwork. and answer their questions such as package of former chief NEIL LOCK MCIOB OF WATES WON Everything came through one gate how we got the steelwork in and executive Jeff Fairburn. THE 40TH CONSTRUCTION MANAGER and went out one gate, on the whether the surrounding buildings busiest street in London. We had move at all during construction. “Poor payment OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR THE V&A practices are rife.” MUSEUM EXTENSION IN SOUTH over 7,000 vehicle movements in this area alone with no incidents or What does winning mean MPs in the BEIS KENSINGTON, LONDON. HE SPOKE TO clashes with members of public. to you and Wates? Committee call for statutory payment of NEIL GERRARD AFTERWARDS The memory will last a lifetime for What motivated you on such invoices in construction me, especially it being the 40th within 30 days. a complicated job? anniversary. I remember walking in I love a challenge, something that and seeing the 40th winner board “Constructive tests your knowledge, your skill, with a question mark, thinking: discussions between and your communication with all “I wonder if I have a chance?” the government and parties. I have a relentless drive to The award for Wates is a first in Transport for London overcome problems with solutions. terms of the overall CMYA award, are ongoing” I was able to demonstrate this on having achieved gold medals A Department for this challenging project; delivery previously. They celebrated our Transport spokesman was exceptional. achievements and put our names after it emerged up in lights. For me, as a member Crossrail needed a Neil Lock (right) with CIOB president of the CIOB, it’s the pinnacle further £1bn and Chris Soffe at the 2018 awards of my career. could be delayed by another year.

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How has construction changed since Carillion’s collapse? ONE YEAR ON FROM THE SHOCK LIQUIDATION OF CARILLION, WHAT HAS THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LEARNED? NEIL GERRARD SPOKE TO SENIOR FIGURES FROM ACROSS THE INDUSTRY ILLUSTRATION: JACK RICHARDSON JACK ILLUSTRATION:

It was one of the UK’s biggest corporate But what has construction – and government process (with the bones picked clean by failures. Carillion’s collapse on 15 January – learned since the momentous events of “advisers”). There are signs that some of the 2018, under a £1.5bn pile of debt, sent January 2018? more fundamental issues such as auditing are shockwaves through the industry. Paul Morrell, former chief government being addressed, but too often such inquiries In the wake of the firm’s liquidation, two construction adviser, told CM: “For are reduced to looking for someone to blame, Commons select committees – the Business, government, I would say the main lesson to rather than addressing the structural reasons Enterprise and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) be learned is how to manage relationships for bad outcomes.” Committee and the Work and Pensions with major suppliers. Carillion’s notorious payment terms Committee – joined forces to investigate “Carillion will be a rich source of case have been under close scrutiny, and Morrell what went wrong, hauling ministers, former studies for years to come, on matters from reveals he discussed this issue with former Carillion directors, and accountants up for the mis-pricing of capital, through to some of CEO Richard Howson shortly after his public interrogation. the more primitive aspects of the insolvency appointment (see box).

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Carillion collapse in numbers £1.5bn 2,787 278 £148m Total Carillion debt Number of job Carillion contracts Total cost to the losses, costing the transferred to new public purse, according taxpayer £65m in providers, safeguarding to the National redundancy costs 13,945 jobs Audit Office

An ‘insane’ “I’m not sure that attitudes are business model changing. We continue to see instances of other contractors being exposed for poor payment terms, so maybe Carillion has FORMER CHIEF CONSTRUCTION just raised awareness” ADVISER PAUL MORRELL ON Phil Wade, First Base CARILLION’S SHORTCOMINGS

The Cabinet Office promised late last year to In his capacity as a client, however, Wade When I spoke to Richard Howson, then newly bar contractors who fail to demonstrate prompt won’t tolerate poor payment practices. appointed as Carillion’s CEO, payment to their suppliers from public work “I wouldn’t employ anyone with poor to ask whether he intended by autumn 2019. But will that change main payment terms to the trades. Why would we? to address its reputation contractors’ attitudes towards payment terms? We pay on time and we expected everyone as a bad payer, he professed not to Ann Bentley, global director of Rider else to do the same to make sure we have recognise the firm I was talking about. Whether it was ignorance or guile is for Levett Bucknall who sits on the Construction motivated and well-rewarded teams,” he says. others for others to determine, but the Leadership Council board, says: “Build UK Clients like Wade may be the exception reality is Carillion is not alone in having has recently published a payment terms rather than the rule though, believes constructed its business model around the table for its (mainly contractor) members. Mark Beard, chairman of Beard and vice insane idea that the smaller players in the industry capitalise the larger ones. There are certainly a number of contractors president of the CIOB. “Customers are At some stage, those who are not getting who pay very quickly. But there is substantial taking more interest in the relationship paid on time have to find the courage to start feedback from the tier 2 and 3 contractors contractors have with their supply discriminating against those who do not pay that they are still effectively funding the chain, but very few customers have a full and price differentially. Otherwise there is no construction sector.” understanding of the dynamics of contracting reward for the good payers. When it comes to clients, the last time I Phil Wade, director at developer First and subcontracting and their comments tend looked, central government was a very good Base, adds: “I am not sure attitudes are to be superficial,” he says. payer but local government was not. In addition changing. We continue to see instances of to talking sanctions against contractors, how other contractors being exposed for poor Business model reappraisals about requiring timely payment by all public authorities involved in projects which have an payment terms (for example, Kier), so maybe Beard points to some of the shrewder element of central government funding? Carillion has just raised awareness. Those contractors reappraising their business I don’t see any immediate signs of main who have always behaved well don’t get so models in the wake of Carillion’s demise. contractors changing their business models – recognised, which is a shame.” “I believe the more informed contractors or of any serious consideration of a business realised a little while ago that doing less model which focuses on value to the customer – but it could be one long-term consequence and increasingly offloading the risk was of BIM, where the benefits of a more productive going to make them less relevant and limit environment are unlikely to be captured by tier the margin they could make for their role in one contractors but rather trade contractors the project,” he says. (who already enjoy better margins). The direct delivery model is not, however, “I believe this realisation has led to a small suited to major players in an industry where number of contractors taking on more risk in demand is both diverse and volatile – forces return for slightly higher margins. However, that demand flexibility in skills and resources. most contractors are still trying to pass as much I suspect that if we see a customer-focused risk down the supply chain as possible and this model at all, it will come from new entrants. However, the collapse of a major firm, even one The Midland Met hospital site in Sandwell, derelict is one of the reasons they are struggling to as big as Carillion, doesn’t mean the business last summer after Carillion’s demise command margins of much greater than 1%.” model for a whole sector is over.

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BIM Level 2 and contractors: will it change their business models?, p22

Meanwhile, Peter Caplehorn, deputy One procurement development since chief executive, Construction Products Carillion’s demise has been the abandonment Association, sees the need for more stability of PFI and its successor PF2, which Chancellor Views on Carillion in the construction market if business models Philip Hammond ruled out using for future lessons from the are ever really going to change significantly. government contracts in his autumn budget. “The main contractor business model However, another form of private financing CM reader panel is primarily based upon merely winning may yet re-emerge. Brian Impey, director, projects and managing them,” he argues. “PFI was considered ‘not value for money’ Acorn Multi Academy Trust “It uses subcontracting of activity, fixed by government and replaced by PF2, which “The lessons being taken are more costs and risk to deal with volatility in contractors had little interest in anyway due from failed strategy and process than from the cultural flaws. Money has always demand in the industry. If demand were to a lack of a sustained rate of return,” says been used as an influencing tool and more stable in the long-term then it would Caplehorn. “Carillion’s major issues on the nothing has changed in construction, be able to justify investing in the ability to two PFI hospitals [the Midland Metropolitan particularly in large organisations where do the projects themselves but until then it and the Royal Liverpool] didn’t help PFI but the people in middle management are is highly unlikely.” reality is that it had become toxic, infamous for results focused and seldom give any consideration to the impact of starving Richard Saxon, consultant and former lack of value and quality.” the supply chain of cash.” chairman of BDP, has noticed a shift since But he adds: “Government austerity means Carillion’s demise. “I do see more clients that private finance for construction will be John Adams, director, and contractors interested in construction used in the future under a different name again.” BIM Strategy “Carillion collapsing has left a deep wound management for complex projects, and in Bentley is of a similar view. “There is no on the industry and we’re in a period of longer-term supplier relationships since doubt that there will have to be public sector healing and reflection before any real Carillion’s collapse,” he comments. funding in most major infrastructure and action kicks in. But now we’ve had such a high-profile failure, there is a wider acknowledgement that we need to make an active start on changing.”

Peter Egan, principal engineer, UK Engineer Taskforce “Clients are still focused on results and many are still looking at savings over their contractors’ payment ethics. The greatest area of change has been in the SME market, where companies are becoming more selective on their contracts.”

social infrastructure projects going forward so I don’t think PFI has gone away, it will be reborn as something else,” she asserts. “What may have gone away are 25-year soft FM and service delivery contracts. The government now appears to be much happier with taking these in house again.” If one thing is for certain, it is that the day on 15 January 2018 when Carillion called in the liquidators will continue to provide the Locked gates and no activity at Carillion’s development site at Milburngate, Durham, a year ago industry with lessons well into the future. ●

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The commission’s work has been informed by a wide-ranging industry consultation, including a call for evidence, which identified that three- quarters of respondents believe the current MJ RICHARDSON system of quality management is flawed. “We now have two broad strategies,” said Paul Nash, chair of the commission and CIOB past president. “One is a code of quality practice to provide guidance on best practice and set the standards that we need to achieve as an industry. ” “The other is education. We want to raise awareness of quality management and give people the knowledge and practical tools to deliver it.” The code, to be published later this year, will also provide the basis for a quality certification that will be developed alongside it. “We plan to launch a pilot of the certification scheme at the same time as the code is published. The pilot will run for six months before going live next year,” said Nash. The CIOB’s Construction Quality Commission was set up in 2017 partly in response to defects which The certification will build on the CIOB emerged at Edinburgh schools including Oxgangs Primary School (above) Academy’s quality course, which was launched last year and has been oversubscribed. The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) The commission also intends to hold Quality code will launch a 10-week consultation on its dialogue with the insurance sector. “We think planned code of quality practice this month. insurers would consider reducing premiums consultation The launch of the code, which was on projects managed by professionals holding announced at an event held at the Palace the quality certification,” explained Nash. launches of Westminster last month, is one of the “Our sector has approached risk by insuring recommendations of the CIOB’s Construction it rather than managing it,” he added. “But THE CODE WILL PROVIDE THE BASIS Quality Commission, which was established to that doesn’t deal with the risk; it’s a sticking FOR A NEW QUALITY CERTIFICATION investigate the issue of quality in construction plaster approach. We should aim to build and how it could be improved. things right in the first place.” ●

Projects sign up for Quality Tracker The first pilot projects have (RIBA) and Royal Institution of tracker will help set the project The tracker is very clever as it registered for the Quality Tracker, Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the free- objectives and define, communicate spells out, at each RIBA stage, what launched last October, which aims to-use digital tool creates a chain of and deliver quality. The tracker can project teams need to think about in to provide a straightforward system custody for tracking quality. map to and sit alongside existing terms of quality. for documenting and tracking The tracker is currently being risk management processes and will “The tool resonates strongly with risks to quality through the life of piloted on real-life projects to allow be used to test the impact of quality what Dame Judith Hackitt described a construction project. structured feedback on the system. risks and decisions on value and in her Independent Review of Created by the Building In Quality Utility firm Engie is one of the programme outcomes.” Building of Building Regulations and working group, jointly set up by the firms which has signed up to use the Paul Nash, chair of the CIOB Fire Safety: the ‘golden thread’ of Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), tool. Chris Langdon, development quality commission, said: “The RIBA information from concept to finished Royal Institute of British Architects and investment director, said: “The Plan of Work is an industry standard. building and beyond.”

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One of the longest serving chief executives CM readers at top at a professional body has announced his People retirement. For almost 20 years Chris Blythe of supply chain has led the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). He will retire in May 2019. 2 For more than 25 years, Blythe has been 5 CIOB chief exec involved in vocational education and training, 14 together with business development, He has 35 to retire in May been CIOB chief executive since January 2000. In the Queen’s 2017 New Year’s Honours CHRIS BLYTHE HAS list he received an OBE for services to the ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT construction industry and government, while 19 AFTER SERVING AS CHIEF in 2018 the University of Wolverhampton EXECUTIVE OF THE CIOB awarded him an honorary degree. FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS CIOB president Chris Soffe said: “Chris 25 has transformed the CIOB into a modern international institute – able to adapt to the changing needs of its members and in an Organisations CM readers work for (%) industry undergoing a digital revolution.” n Main contractor n Specialist contractor He added: “With his influence he has helped n Client n Architect establish the discipline of construction n Consultant n Other management as a chartered profession and under his stewardship the awarding of an Professionals working in clients, consultants MCIOB can now be compared to a master’s and main contractors dominate Construction Manager’s readership, a survey has revealed. degree. He has held the industry and The detailed study of 258 readers in government to account on politically sensitive November showed that the majority occupy agendas like modern slavery and corruption positions of high influence at the top of the in construction. He has also championed the supply chain. Main contractors make up 35%, clients industry and the vital role it plays in social account for a quarter – 15% public, 10% mobility, job creation and the quality of life.” private – while consultants are a further 19%. Blythe said: “It has been a privilege to lead Some 42% of CM readers work for the CIOB these many years. It has given me organisations with over 500 employees, the opportunity to work with fabulous people while SMEs with 50 staff or less account for a third. Project managers and site managers from across the industry and across the world. make up 32% of readers with those at “Belonging to a chartered body is more than director level and above another 15%. “It has been a privilege to lead the just membership and qualifications it is also The sectors CM readers most commonly CIOB these many years. It has given about a duty to society. That is reflected in the work in are offices (45%), education (42%), private housing (41%), retail and leisure (37%), me the opportunity to work with many members I have met and worked with.” fabulous people from across the other public building (37%), healthcare (32%) He added: “I would like to thank the and social housing (31%). (Respondents could industry and across the world” countless number of people from across the choose more than one category.) Chris Blythe, CIOB industry, and colleagues at the CIOB, who have Readers are increasingly digital-focused. been key in all that we have achieved together More than half say they typically read CM content on the website or digital magazine. and the many successes yet to come. CM has the highest magazine circulation in “I am looking forward to the next phase construction, some 31,500 by last year’s ABC of my life with great anticipation, great audit, with over 58,000 email subscribers. memories and many great friends.” ●

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What’s involved in a typical day for an level of protection before they sign – future- employer’s agent? proofing the buildings for the inevitable hike Interview There are progress meetings on my clients’ in building regulations. sites – inspecting the works and understanding the projects’ risks. Then back to the office How do you balance the client’s needs with to delve into the plethora of deliverables the contractor’s capabilities? across other sites: reviewing valuations for A day in the Good communication, patience and fortitude stage payments to the contractor, studying is key to a successful outcome. I often see drawings, specifications and proposals, life of... an myself as the interpreter converting the analysing new schemes, undertaking due client’s expectations into the contractor’s diligence, and much more. employer’s agent understanding. Overall, our client base is fair and reasonable when contractors’ How early in a project do you get involved? THE LATEST IN OUR SERIES ON QM expectations are clearly outlined to them. It varies greatly and depends on the client. ROLES LOOKS AT THE EMPLOYER’S If the project is procured via a framework AGENT. ALEC THOMSON FROM PELLINGS When you identify defects, what do you the contractors will have been pre-qualified. TELLS NEIL GERRARD ABOUT THE consider when communicating these to If not, we will handle competitive tendering DAY-TO-DAY CHALLENGES IN HIS JOB the contractor? on behalf of our client from the outset looking AND EXPLAINS THAT, POST-GRENFELL, Outside of clarity about the issue and why at the contractor risk profile, undertaking EMPLOYER’S AGENTS ARE MORE the item doesn’t comply, you sometimes need due diligence on the site and reviewing the MINDFUL OF FIRE PROTECTION to consider the impact on the site manager financial appraisal. THAN EVER BEFORE being told about the defect. Some take it very personally that you’ve found something What risk is involved when considering wrong (a pride issue), or that they are being items submitted by the contractor? scrutinised from above, that it reflects poorly The agreements I administer are mainly on them. If you’re about to hand over a building design and build contracts. As a result, to the client and you find a bunch of small except for elements beyond the contractor’s items during de-snagging, I like to give the site control, such as weather and utilities, the manager the opportunity of clearing them first risk to our clients has been minimised as before entering them in a defects sheet that far as is practical. I use regular progress their boss will inevitably see. Working with meetings with the contractors to probe them the site team, and not against them, is best. on construction risks and what they are doing to mitigate these. What is the most challenging aspect of the job? Have you had to change how you monitor Juggling multiple clients and a multitude inspections post-Grenfell? of sites at differing stages of development. Typically, detailed inspections are undertaken “Post-Grenfell, One minute, you’ve got a client on the by either the client’s clerk of works or our we are more mindful telephone deeply unhappy with the quality own. Post-Grenfell, however, we are more of fire protection and of the brickwork on a small scheme, while the mindful of fire protection and fire stopping. fire stopping” next minute you could be dealing with a There is more discussion pre contract; our Alec Thomson, Pellings £200m project. clients are wary of inheriting buildings that don’t meet the highest standards and And the most rewarding? are interrogating the design in great detail When a disabled tenant arrives to see their before they commit. In most cases, they bring brand-new wheelchair-adapted unit for the in specialist fire consultants to review the first time and cries because of the difference. ●

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by changing language, tone, colour and content based on research around how female applicants behave and what they look for. Roma Agrawal Aecom The achievements of its female engineers are highlighted through online and print editorial in the graduate recruitment space and targeted social media campaigns. Recruitment Why women are campaigns always showcase an equal gender split of past graduates and the company flocking to Aecom strives to have female representatives at all graduate recruitment events. Drawing on new SOME 43% OF AECOM’S UK AND IRELAND GRADUATE faces and voices helps engage audiences our INTAKE IS FEMALE – COMPARED TO THE INDUSTRY sector often struggles to reach. AVERAGE OF 26%. ROMA AGRAWAL EXPLAINS The company has reported incremental THE FIRM’S RECRUITMENT STRATEGY improvements in its graduate gender split every year since implementing its programme, but its efforts are now really starting to pay off. In 2018, 43% of Aecom’s UK and Ireland graduate intake is female. This percentage is significantly higher than the industry average of 26% and a huge improvement on its gender split from five years ago, which was 25%. Crucially, the figures show a 12% increase in female graduates joining its transportation business, which has always been a more challenging sector in which to recruit women. These figures are really exciting and I can’t wait to see the fresh thinking and creativity this mix of graduates will bring. An ongoing programme, the company won’t stop until it is fully satisfied its workforce represents the communities it serves. The wider strategy includes initiatives to attract more female apprentices and work with schools When I joined the built environment sector age or background – can help us understand to help encourage young people, and girls in 14 years ago, I would often be the only woman and empathise with the needs of the people particular, into technical professions. One of the working at a construction site. I was frequently who will benefit from the projects we deliver. biggest challenges to recruiting more women required to wear personal protective But encouraging more women to join our into our sector is outdated stereotypes about equipment (PPE) that was too big for me and industry takes work. A few years ago, my jobs in construction, so dispelling these myths basic tasks, like finding a woman’s toilet on employer Aecom recognised that it needed and exciting girls about fun and rewarding site, were never simple. to think more creatively about how to attract career opportunities from an early age is key. Thankfully, the sector has improved hugely and retain the best female talent. Working towards a more diverse and inclusive since then, but the number of women entering Its graduate diversity programme has workforce will speed up progress and lead to the sector remains low – even though the changed the way it promotes vacancies to help better outcomes for everyone in construction. ● business benefits of greater diversity are attract more female applicants. This includes Roma Agrawal is associate director – clear. A diverse team – in terms of gender, rebranding graduate marketing materials buildings and places at Aecom.

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Chris Blythe Chief executive CIOB

There is no doubt that the last 18 months there would be any doubt that it could be have been like a journey to hell. All aspects of otherwise – and again it is a scandal that it Comment the industry have been called into question. has taken so long to get to this point. Professionals, trades, inspectors, PLC Perhaps we are seeing the first steps along directors, developers and clients – their the road to redemption. Some of the big competence, professionalism, ethics and contractors are finding it difficult to borrow The road to honesty are all on the rack. money from their client, their subcontractors Dame Judith Hackitt in her report or the banks, so are having to turn to their redemption was excoriating about the failure of the shareholders for the money. Meanwhile, some professionals and how the gaming of the specialist contractor trade bodies are urging AFTER A DIFFICULT PERIOD, system led a drive to the bottom driven by their members to deal directly with the client THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY greed, ignorance and indifference. to improve cash flow. FACES A BATTLE TO RESTORE The highly respected Neil Stansbury of the Another step is the belated recognition ITS REPUTATION, WHICH IS WHY Global Infrastructure Anti-Corruption Centre that a fundamental requirement for anyone FORMAL REGULATION IS NEEDED, pointed to Carillion as a “great example” of working in the industry is to have the relevant SAYS CHRIS BLYTHE corruption and said that “blind eyes have competency. The work spinning out of the been turned at the very least”. The CIOB’s Hackitt review will have a significant impact most recent survey had 48% of respondents on the industry and force professionals to saying that corruption was common practice be able to demonstrate competency not just in the industry, yet very few prosecutions assume it because of the number of post- have been forthcoming. nominals. For the first time, construction is As far as housing is concerned, we have likely to be regulated. Initially around fire had the scandal of leasehold practices by safety and then across other safety-related the housebuilders revealed and although the aspects of buildings. government have said they are going to do something about it they have done nothing Time for statutory regulation yet. On the other hand, there is the promise All the issues around competence and ethics to introduce a New Homes Ombudsman to mentioned above have forced the government redress the balance between new house buyer to take the initiative in their attempt to right and developer. No doubt those advising the the wrongs – because the industry has not developers are already looking at ways to done so itself. Admittedly in some cases the game the system and neutralise the proposed government has not acted where it should Ombudsman. have done, for example, after the Lakanal This week we hear that there are 88,000 House fire, but there was nothing to stop the homeless children in London – enough to industry from acting for itself. fill Wembley. Yet developers moan that Construction has been a self-regulated they are being held back from building more industry – but now it is time for statutory property for sale to wealthy foreigners – regulation. This has happened in other places to stash their cash which generally sectors, namely law, accountancy and remain unoccupied. You wonder how people medicine. sleep at night. To be really seen to be on the road to This week we hear that a settlement has redemption, and to regain public trust, the been reached in the Edinburgh schools professionals within the industry need to debacle, where the Edinburgh Schools speak up when they see or hear things which Will a New Homes Ombudsman redress balance Partnership are going to meet all the are not in the public’s interest. To do nothing between buyer and developer? costs relating to issues. I cannot imagine is being complicit in the crime. ●

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David McCormick Benjamin Sewell Andrew Adrian Cox Ian Heptinstall About time, too. In the late Though this concept is a For a traditional wall cavity, Chris, you came in like Project contingency is there 1990s I tried to persuade great idea why should it how would it deal with wall a breath of fresh air, to be spent. The idea is that Mowlem (Manchester) to only be used for student ties and insulation? both modernising and when planning all you know use Ytong (now part of accommodation and rescuing the CIOB from is some things won’t go to Xella) to use large module emergency shelter. It seems Mindaugas the ignominious fate that plan, but you don’t know aerated blocks in large to me that the creators of Network Rail is trialling many other professional exactly which things. warehouse construction for module homes deem their similar technology with the bodies of that era So you allow contingency. diaphragm walls. Their use is products only worthy of University of Birmingham. suffered. Your tenure It acts to aggregate widespread throughout the those in desperate need. has been good for the allowances of money and world but I’ve not seen them in In China they build John organisation, increasing time to protect against risk the UK. Perhaps someone might modular homes and ship Andrew, there are two both awareness and and uncertainties and is vital pick this up and run with it? them to us for a fraction choices with what you say. quality of the CIOB on projects. If contingency is of the cost instead of us Firstly, you have a human designation. I wish you largely unspent, or if projects Andrew Hall building a better quality doing the complex work with well in your retirement. claim they don’t have any, Lots of factory workers home. Is that where the accessories (no one said the something is wrong. instead of skilled and proud industry is going? technology does away with John Eynon If most of the work tradespeople. Lots more people). Or you redesign Well done Chris. We is now well under way, estates of near-identical Sheila so wall ties are no longer haven't always agreed, we this means that most of boxes, instead of inspiring and Steel framing for domestic needed and the insulation don't need to, but we both the potential risks have beautiful architecture. housing is completely is elsewhere. want the same thing – a emerged, so having spent We already have modular unnecessary. Tmber would Anyway, the technology changed, transformed and 80% of the contingency is building methods in the form cut the cost and do the same will have limits, like world-class industry. not a problem. The problem of timber kit. No need to think job structurally. restricted access for the arises when contingency is outside the box, we just need vehicle, and limits on Raja Pillai used very early, and none well-trained, well-paid people John Broomfield complexity it can cope with Chris Blythe has done remains to protect the later to do the work. Spend the “A design life of at least (lintels, anyone?). It wouldn’t an excellent job. Who stages of the project. money on training like the old 60 years”. Is this when do away with bricklaying will be the next for the The key piece of TOPS courses and nationalise DIYers discover they cannot as a skill, just compensate challenging position? information is how much all public building projects. do anything to improve for the shortage of skilled contingency remains their homes or before? A bit tradesmen. unallocated to protect the Darren like us amateur mechanics remaining four to five years. This kind of deskilling discovered with our ideology has been going on computerised cars. for at least 20 years and the Perhaps the plan is to result is an industry that disassemble the homes at cannot build a simple 60 years and replace them Provide your own feedback on latest industry issues by posting comments one-bedroomed dwelling with a new model. online at www.constructionmanagermagazine.com or emailing the editor without multiple snags and at [email protected] breaches of regs.

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(FM) providers, SMEs and suppliers HOW BIM LEVEL 2 in future round table sessions, to help understand how BIM is being adopted IS CHANGING TIER 1 and inform the future policy agenda. The debate was chaired by Terry CONSTRUCTORS Stocks, leader of the CDBB BIM Level 2 workstream, who began by asking the FOR THE SECOND IN OUR SERIES OF DIGITAL DEBATES, IN PARTNERSHIP panel: “Why and when does a tier 1 WITH THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL BUILT BRITAIN, WE LOOK AT HOW TIER 1 deliver BIM projects? Because you CONSTRUCTORS ARE RISING TO THE CHALLENGE OF BIM LEVEL 2 AND want to or because the client asks?” HOW IT MAY CHANGE THEIR ROLE. WILL MANN SAT IN ON THE DISCUSSION Aecom’s global director for project technologies, John Kizior, said: “To Clockwise from BIM Level 2 could transform the role usual” and what do they need to help improve our margins and provide top left: David of the tier 1 constructor. Potential deliver this? better outcomes for our clients. We Philp (CDBB); Senthil Arjunan benefits include not only capital Those were the issues discussed do it to gain efficiencies and increase (Interserve); Garry delivery improvements, but also better by the main contractors who our bottom line. Digital transformation Fannon (Willmott asset data for clients and whole-life gathered for the second in our series is the journey we must go on to start Dixon); Alex Jones operational efficiencies. Modern of digital debates, organised by CM, making business decisions based upon (Murphy) with Senthil Arjunan methods of construction (MMC) are the Centre for Digital Built Britain facts and data, and less on intuition (Interserve); Andy likely to become more widespread. (CDBB) and the Chartered Institute and gut instinct. You want to mitigate Boutle (Kier); Terry But how will this impact tier 1 of Building (CIOB). CDBB will use risk. Why? Because you don’t want to Stocks (CDBB) constructors? What can they do the sessions, which will also involve lose money. So it all comes down to to make BIM Level 2 “business as consultants, facilities management profitability.”

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Does BIM Level 2 change the role of the tier 1 constructor?

Andy Boutle, head of BIM at Kier Stephen do that. But the events at areas of repetition, it will Kennedy Edinburgh schools and be used to a degree. The Building, said clients still need to Stantec Grenfell have highlighted tier 1 will become more of drive BIM. “Initially, we established a Yes – it becomes that built asset owners and an integrator, and as we mechanism to assess incoming tenders more of an integrator. The deliverers could be better. get better working with key is being collaborative data, we will see more early and make an informed decision on Andy Boutle and bringing together all contractor engagement. whether to use BIM,” he explained. “But Kier the skills deployed across No, because the John Kizior quite frankly, unless there is a client the supply chain – making procurement Aecom requirement, then the wheels come off.” sure the jigsaw fits together. system is still the same. Yes. Tier 1s are But we have to overcome Willmott Dixon has a different Digital is having a disrupting becoming data doubters who still want mindset, according to Garry Fannon, effect. BIM Level 2 may aggregators whether they the benefits proved. In my be a stepping stone want to or not. And with head of digital. “We’ve decided we are organisation, only 30% of towards tier 1s becoming all that knowledge, that going to do BIM regardless and use that “Our directors people are “converts”. management companies, also means influence. On a data ourselves,” he said. “What we have are now Garry Fannon working with standard building project, that asset realised is after Grenfell, we need better mandating Willmott Dixon platforms and MMC. But is generating data, and a understanding of what we have built. BIM… they Not today, but we need to move towards tier 1 will be expected to So this data is actually quite useful. Our see the bigger potentially in the partnering and shared use that data to maximise directors are now mandating it across the future. BIM is a facilitator outcomes. that facility’s performance. picture and for change. The industry Javed Edahtally Senthil Arjunan business. They see the bigger picture and the value of will go on a rocky journey Metropolitan Interserve they see the value of that data.” which will lead to improved that data” Police It is definitely design, procurement, use “Does that mean you have developed Garry Fannon, Yes. Tier 1s changing. BIM of data, and ultimately a your own internal information Willmott Dixon will either become Level 2 has opened up better product. How do requirements?” asked Fiona Moore, BIM manufacturers or disappear. conversations in terms of we get there? Education, As MMC develops, there roles and responsibilities Level 2 programme manager at CDBB. education, education. will also be less of a role and who does what. More “Yes, we have a standard employer Nick Leach for consultants and QSs. certainty and standardised information requirement [EIR],” replied Sir Robert Projects will always be based processes have changed Fannon. “This is the data we provide McAlpine on a client’s specification the way we, as a tier 1, to the customer, and we also keep it BIM Level 2 has but these will become more manage project design. standardised. This is already ourselves. So now we are building up been an excellent catalyst Alex Jones happening in education. for moving construction Murphy data about maintainable assets and we forward. The challenge James Daniel We’re evolving are starting to formulate a data strategy.” is to ensure it becomes Skanska but we need business as normal Interserve’s head of BIM and At this point, it to become more mature which means tier 1s must digital construction, Senthil Arjunan, hasn’t. In reality, in how we use the data collaborate with the supply noted clients’ BIM capabilities vary we are all skirting around BIM we have access to. Those chain and ensure BIM is not Level 2. We are deploying companies that collate data considerably. “They often haven’t got just delivered in pockets. more digital tools, but that well will become purveyors the right infrastructure and resources It should be part of a doesn’t fundamentally of knowledge and provide business’s overall strategy. to manage the data that we hand over,” change the way the smarter, holistic solutions. he said. “So depending on the project, Steve Green contractor is operating. The Peter Vale we have got a tiered approach for BIM Bouygues mindset hasn’t adjusted yet. Tideway deployment from ‘BIM light’, through The big change David Philp Yes, BIM Level 2 will be the BIM Level 2, then a ‘BIM Level 2 stretch’.” CDBB has started the digitising of the quality journey for tier 1 constructors “Do other contractors have There will be system. It means visibility a fundamental to understand the value of this ‘baseline’ approach to BIM, of those records anywhere change in what tier 1s data. It will have an impact irrespective of whether a client asks in the business and in the look like, not just due to on what a Tier 1 will look for it?” David Philp, communications world, which means we Level 2 BIM but other digital like, but this needs to go can clearly address the manager for the CDBB BIM Level 2 technologies. Not every hand-in-hand with changes cause of any issues. In building will align itself with in how we contract, procure workstream, asked the wider panel. aerospace, they can DfMA, but where there are and deliver projects.

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Sir Robert McAlpine applies a “sliding scale” of digital maturity on its work, said Nick Leach, strategic BIM manager. “There is a minimum that has to be hit, regardless of the project,” he explained. “We try to address the foundations,” Boutle said. “Naming things consistently and organising them in an environment that is structured and consistent and repeatable. It is a challenge – with our own operational teams on site, with subcontractors, consultants – but we are trying to achieve that baseline and build from that upwards.” A similar perspective came from the infrastructure sector. James Daniel, head of digital engineering for Skanska Infrastructure Services, said: “We need to get the basics right, a common data environment, an understanding of how you structure or store your data correctly, be it an order or a drawing.” “One of our common problems is naming of documents,” said Peter From left: Garry you need to do it’. At the moment, what now. With the contracts we have, BIM Vale, engineering information manager Fannon (Willmott we are doing with BIM and digital is ‘is business as usual’.” Dixon); Nick at Tideway. “The water industry Leach (Sir Robert predominantly for our own efficiency.” Stocks asked if clients understood has suppliers working for different McAlpine); Steve “So does BIM cost money to deploy?” the benefits of BIM during the organisations and they all want it Green (Bouygues) asked Stocks. “Is there a surcharge on procurement of the tier 1 contractors. differently. That’s causing problems.” BIM projects?” “Generally, the message I’m hearing is Stephen Kennedy, head of digital and “Ten years ago, if BIM was on the ‘no’,” he said. innovation at water specialist Stantec, contract, another £100,000 was added But Metropolitan Police head of added: “The biggest challenge for us is on, and the money businesses were BIM Javed Edahtally said clients have in the absence of a client saying ‘this is investing was then passed on to the difficulty engaging their own teams on what you need to do and this is the way client,” said Daniel. “That has gone BIM. “I was meeting with consultants

10 action 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. points for Better information Exploitation of Where clients do Current poor Greater and Soft Landings is constructors management data can help not request BIM, practices at earlier engagement rarely used to its from the is essential constructors add a “baseline’ digital handover can be of FM and full extent and a post Grenfell – value to their service should addressed through operational teams champion in that debate constructors need service delivery be provided. better BIM and is necessary to role can help when to know what they offering. Soft Landings help clients testing a design have built and to processes. understand BIM’s for maintainability be able to hand potential for and handing over over data to the improving their assets into the employer to support asset management. operational phase. their asset.

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Will BIM turn contractors into manufacturers?

Greater digital adoption could change how construction projects are procured

recently and said it would be really useful Construction has a 12 months to get the notoriously adversarial necessary capabilities to if we gave you what information we procurement culture, which deliver that project.” wanted at what RIBA stage and to what many on our constructor “We know about the level of granularity,” he explained. “They “We are seeing a huge panel agreed can be a barrier big productivity gap said, ‘Yes that would be great.’ So, I took a movement in BIM within to BIM adoption – but some between construction and document out of my bag and said, ‘Here contracting, but not within saw change on the horizon. manufacturing – so is this “BIM requires extra where tier 1s have got to you go’, and they looked really worried.” FM. I still see them walking effort and suits early get to?” asked Stocks. “Clients face the same challenges around with clipboards” contractor involvement and “It’s possible that once a we do in terms of BIM engagement,” Alex Jones, Murphy collaborative working yet project has been modelled observed Boutle. “We have one client the contracts we have are in BIM, it can fly straight exactly the opposite to that which is really intelligent in terms of over the head of the tier 1 to – they’re about achieving a manufacturer,” said Green. BIM. But they still can’t get their FM asset information model,” said Kennedy. the cheapest possible “It may not even need an team to say what the need is.” “It is very difficult finding out what the price,” said Jones. architect to supervise.” Alex Jones, head of BIM and digital operators actually want. The owners “But clients do that However, Vale warned construction at Murphy, echoed this. have to understand how their assets are because it is all they know – that manufacturing unless there is evidence to principles were better “The ingredient missing is FM,” he said. operated then define that back to us.” the contrary,” argued Vale. suited to new-build. “There “We are seeing a huge movement in BIM “This goes back to the organisational “There is masses of is lots of legacy out there – within contracting, but not in FM. I still see information requirements [OIR],” said evidence that collaboration we need to get that house in them walking around with clipboards.” Stocks. “If the client has an OIR that sets works,” said Steve Green, order too,” he pointed out. head of knowledge-sharing “But it isn’t actually that difficult,” said their strategic direction for a business, “Skanska is using at Bouygues. “All the ‘flying’ factories on its Edahtally, “because if you have an asset the constructor can understand the partnerships we developed building projects, but that management policy and strategy, you asset information requirements [AIR] at Thomas Vale [which doesn’t really translate to should know what information you need.” and then the EIRs just contractualise Bouygues acquired in 2012] highways management,” “That is the whole point of Soft it through project delivery.” demonstrated that, but added Daniel. then the recession came But Jones said Murphy is Landings,” said Jones. “Use Soft “We have got a consulting business along and they were gone. “trying to think a bit more Landings from the beginning so you within Interserve which is now looking But there were best value like a manufacturer”. understand the end-user requirements.” at helping clients with their OIRs and reports that said actually, “We have factories and “Soft Landings was one of the AIRs,” said Arjunan. “They do the Mr Client, this will be a 2,500 direct operatives better experience and in the intentions of BIM Level 2 and for hand-holding with the clients and we so we have to keep them long run, cheaper for you.” busy,” he said. “We put whatever reason it seems like it hasn’t get better EIRs as a result.” Stocks posed the utilities into new housing happened,” said Boutle. The discussion moved on to whether question: “Do we think estates, but we’re thinking, “One of the challenges with water constructors can use the data they procurement will change instead of taking all that companies is the transfer of data from collect to help with asset management as digital adoption risk for 1% margin, why not increases?” actually own those assets? the project information model into the strategies. Kizior said Aecom has “Absolutely,” said If we are installing and Kizior. “We need to look at owning those own assets, manufacturing and product it is a much more stable 7. 8. 9. 10. lifecycle management. business environment, Digital skills Training Use of 3D models, Better bench- We have seen the video of and also, the value of data shortfalls can be internally and of visualisations marking of BIM the 57-storey building in comes into its own. partly addressed suppliers needs and virtual reality benefits and clear China that was built in 19 “So we have been through recruiting standardising, can help engage case studies are days. The company which scanning all these assets outside the BIM accreditation both suppliers needed to present built that was making and putting in sensors industry, for should be and clients with a more convincing air-conditioning units which link to data analytics. example, app considered to align digital’s potential. business case for the year before. It took We’re using all the 40 years developers. outcomes across the technology. manufacturing principles of experience in Murphy to the industry. and applied it to building fine-tune how wastewater and it only took them treatment works.”

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Upskilling constructors with digital know-how

From left: David Philp (CDBB); John Kizior (Aecom); Senthil Arjunan (Interserve); Alex Jones (Murphy); Peter Bringing BIM to new and existing industry Vale (Tideway); Fiona Moore (CDBB) professionals can effect positive change

Our constructor panel understand what you agreed that delivering digital are going to build at the training is still a challenge front end and comment,” – though with exciting noted Stocks. possibilities. Skanska’s experience “There is not enough is that it is important “to awareness of the new digital give the right skills to capabilities that are needed the right people”, Daniel in construction,” Boutle felt. said. “In the past, we have Leach agreed. “We had trained people in BIM, but a group of students from has that helped us or is a technical college come it just ticking a box?” he into McAlpine and one questioned. created a VR app within a “We have got transport set up a business to provide that service. data and plan their maintenance week and demonstrated it planners down in Hampshire “We engage with the client, we take strategy their maintenance strategy. “On to us,” he recounted. “He who are running the GPS their asset data and marry it to their longer-term contracts, we are writing had never thought about a systems, planning the systems,” he explained. “We are showing their requirements for free,” he said. “One construction career before.” routing for our gritting “The problem is it’s no lorries. We give them them how to use that information to run client gave us a 13TB hard drive with the good recruiting digitally training for that and it their facilities and their assets better. whole county mapped. So we started literate school leavers or means we have valuable There is a wonderful opportunity here. to drill down into it and we said, ‘Well graduates if they don’t know skills in our supply chain.” You just have to show clients the benefits.” actually, we can tell you how to manage how to build things,” said “So does Skanska, as the Green. “Pairing the new client, charge for this fee or “So I am hearing that the basic BIM your potholes and your water gulleys for recruit with an old hand who are you taking ownership service is free – business as usual – but the next five years’. And they said, ‘That knows construction would to try and improve the where constructors can make money is sounds really interesting!’” be the best of both worlds.” situation?” asked Vale. the additional services?” asked Stocks. “It would be interesting to read the case Stocks asked how tier 1s “It is a partnering Edahtally agreed there was a gap in the study on that,” said Vale. “We need BIM were trying to bring their approach, we do it together,” subcontractors on board said Daniel. “We can’t market for this. “We can’t maintain our case studies that can be shared, or we can’t digitally. have them go out on to the own information so we need a capable improve. Hold on to the specifics that you Kizior said: “We have our network unable to do their supply chain to do it on our behalf,” he said. need, but if we don’t share knowledge of data requirements and if job properly.” “ We have engaged with NG Bailey who what works, we can’t create that wider subcontractors are unable to Kizior worried that deliver those requirements, inconsistencies in standards can update model data and other digital digital cultural change across the industry.” we will do that for them and and expectations come in information in a manner that is consistent “We do need to hear what businesses remove that from their fee.” when different tier 1s train with how we operate as an organisation.” are doing to measure the outcomes of Stantec is using their suppliers to different Daniel said that Skanska is working BIM and digital – the demonstrable collaborative tools to help standards. with highways clients to organise their benefits,” added Moore. ● suppliers. “We use 4D “Companies migrate Synchro software to plan, from project to project,” he visualise and analyse, and pointed out. “The last thing we are finding our suppliers I want is to get a company Key findings: Constructors and BIM Level 2 will speak up when they who says, ‘when I worked wouldn’t in the past, for for another tier 1, we did “Tier 1 constructors have taken up the “They view their immediate role within example, identifying that a it differently’. We need challenge and are adapting to BIM Level 2. a digital environment as an integrator lift plan needs reworking,” firm expectations for all However, they are using it within their between suppliers, mapping the Kennedy explained. “On suppliers.” traditional approaches – inward-facing, progress of works. some projects, we have seen “You have just reached with direction to their supply chains rather a time reduction of 50% for the same conclusion as the than supporting clients. “However, as manufactured solutions and the supply chain because of first round table – the need standard platform designs become more “They have reached a level of proficiency that engagement.” for a consistent approach mainstream, the traditional role of the tier 1 where they can now offer BIM Level 2 ‘base’ “It is the same as using is exactly what they said constructor could change significantly.” outputs with no additional cost to the 3D visualisations for project about training and CPD,” contract, providing the client includes the Terry Stocks, leader of the CDBB stakeholders so they can said Moore. Level 2 outcomes required at tender stage. BIM Level 2 Workstream

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There are variations, and then there are variations. On Circle Health’s new hospital at Pebble Mill in Birmingham, the client landed contractor Simons and architect Bryden Wood with the news that it wanted to add another 120 bedrooms plus rehabilitation space to the project – eight months after construction work had begun. This massive £17.5m variation, on top of the £21.5m cost of the project’s first phase, was an early test of the adaptability and futureproofing that the architect had built into the design (see box, p30). Heather to “The intention was always to change pic provide flexibility in the design so that extensions could be added on,” explains Bryden Wood director Paul O’Neill. “But CGI images of the timing was challenging.” the Pebble Mill The practice was engaged by Circle in hospital as originally 2014 to design the Pebble Mill hospital. planned (top) and It comprises two adjacent wings, one incorporating the later variation with clinical and one hospitality, joined the extra floors by a double-height reception and lift core. Initially, Bryden Wood designed a 10,400 sq m building, set out mostly over two levels, including 20 bedrooms, PEBBLE MILL three fitted-out theatres, shell and core, some “fallow space”, plus offices. Simons VARIATION TESTS started on site in April 2017. But by December, Circle needed SIMONS’ FLEXIBILITY more space. This meant adding two CIRCLE HEALTH’S NEW BIRMINGHAM HOSPITAL WAS DESIGNED BY BRYDEN storeys above the clinical wing, plus WOOD WITH FUTUREPROOFING IN MIND, AND THE CONCEPT WAS TESTED horizontal expansion to the rear, and WHEN THE CLIENT DECIDED TO ADD A £17.5M EXTENSION – EIGHT MONTHS another storey on top of the hospitality AFTER MAIN CONTRACTOR SIMONS STARTED ON SITE. WILL MANN REPORTS wing, where the building cantilevers

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sq m of extra floor space added 7,600 by Circle in the variation

Far left: The original single level of the hospitality wing

Left: Work progresses after the extra level had been added

out by 7.5m at the front and by 1.5m to down. This was particularly the case foundations and steel superstructure, Circle the rear. Some 7,600 sq m of extra floor with the M&E and steelwork. including the 12m-long transfer beam Birmingham, Pebble Mill space in total. “We instructed some steelwork for in the reception – the longest in the Client: So how was this massive variation phase two before the deed of variation structure – which supports the trusses of Circle Health incorporated into contract? was signed. Simons funded it for two the cantilevered hospitality wing above. Main contractor: The contract form was NEC 3 and was months – the steelwork – before we got The steel frame of the first phase Simons Construction set up from the outset to be flexible, so the official paperwork on the variation. included connections at the end of the Architect: Bryden Wood that instructions on variations from We got an email saying, ‘please get on vertical members, rising approximately Project manager: the client could be integrated, says with it’. It was a written instruction in 300mm above the floor slab, to allow Gleeds O’Neill. “The design for phase two – the email. Not an official project manager’s for easy connections to the extended Contract: NEC 3 extension – was done outside the NEC 3 instruction though.” structure. “Otherwise we’d have been Value: £39m (includes £17.5m contract,” he explains. “We designed up Simons signed a preconstruction digging into the concrete slab,” says variation for to RIBA Stage 4. Then the design change services agreement in December 2017 for Partlow. Erection of the frame for second phase) was instructed by the client through a the second phase. “We then appointed phase two was completed in September Programme: 2018, taking the total steelwork on April 2017: deed of variation.” Bryden Wood as designer through Phase one start Meanwhile on site, Simons was that preconstruction agreement,” says the project to 650 tonnes. June 2018: eight months into building the original Partlow. In June 2018, the contractor The service runs have been sized Phase two start design, now known as phase one. “It formally received the variation to allow for extra pipes and cabling, July 2019: was a difficult situation,” says project instruction and started phase two. and the roof design provides capacity Contract completion manager Stuart Partlow. “We couldn’t It was at this point that the benefits for M&E plant. “The plant room in the have continued phase one without of Bryden Wood’s futureproofed design clinical wing hasn’t needed to move, knowing the client’s plans. We needed were realised. Extra loading capacity but we’ve switched two air-handling to know what to stop, or what to slow had been designed into both the pad units on to the roof, to free up space,

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Bryden Wood designs for future healthcare needs

Buildings can accommodate changing requirements

and the chillers above the MRI have “We have tried months, but the opening of the hospital also moved on to the roof,” explains to programme will only be delayed by three months as Partlow. “This extra load capacity was so we haven’t some fit-out works will continue while designed into the structure.” got someone the hospital is operational. The lift core is five storeys high, working above The first sectional handover for another futureproofing feature of the someone else. Simons comes on 4 March, when design, even though the building will The mantra Circle’s specialist fit-out contractors only be four storeys with the extension. is safety” arrive. Subsequent handovers on 29 The hospitality wing has planning “Structurally, there is flexibility for Stuart Partlow, March and 23 April will see the building for a fifth level a fifth level,” says Partlow. “However, Simons gradually handed over to the client for Bryden Wood’s work with Circle Health, we have not included the futureproofing staff training. “There is a lot of logistical with hospitals in Reading and now features, such as the extensions on planning ahead to ensure site workers Birmingham, involves “visualising the vertical steel members, on the fourth are kept separate from clinical staff, and future of a healthcare asset at the very floor. The client decided they just Simons retains management of the whole beginning of the design process”, as wanted to get the hospital built. site till the end of April so I will be keeping director Paul O’Neill puts it. “Healthcare business models are “So we don’t actually need the fifth an eye on the method statements of the renowned for rapid and disruptive level of the lift core. But by the time the Circle contractors,” says Partlow. evolution,” he says. “The brief often client had decided on the final design, Drone view of the The first patients are scheduled to evolves quicker than design teams the steelwork had been designed and hospital in November, arrive for operations on 4 June, with and contractors can keep up with and clients increasingly need to create fabricated, and it would have cost more showing the main Simons completing remaining work entrance with a expandable hospitals. to have started over and redesigned protected oak tree in on upper floors through to contract “At Pebble Mill, the challenging the lift core for just four storeys. the foreground completion on 5 July. ● aspect of the brief was achieving a So we are building it out according to building which can not only expand the original design.” but also accommodate healthcare services for different patient profiles, All the Simons supply chain came within the same envelope.” across to phase two of the scheme. “We Each wing was designed to expand did test the market in some cases, to either vertically or horizontally. The demonstrate value,” says Partlow. hospitality wing can reach up to five storeys, while the clinical wing is “The client QS was scrutinising this, designed to expand horizontally to particularly Imtech. But it would have provide additional theatres and ancillary been madness to have had two separate spaces, and vertically up to four storeys, M&E contractors for the two phases.” for treatment and inpatient areas. It has been tricky to manage the two Planning was given for a 19,000 sq m facility, though construction of the first interfacing phases of work, particularly phase would be 10,400 sq m, with the given the addition of the extra levels. second phase taking it to 18,000 sq m. “We have tried to programme so There is scope for another, 1,000 sq m we haven’t got someone working floor on the hospitality wing. The adaptive concept was tested above someone else,” says Partlow. when Circle signed a joint venture with “The mantra is safety. The client was a rehabilitation provider and decided obviously keen for fast progress, but to add the phase two extension. under CDM regulations I have to build “The limited number of remedial the project safely and I have to say that works required on site despite the late instruction of the new brief is a to the client. But they are actually happy great achievement and proof of the with the speed of progress.” adaptability of structural, services The phase two works increased the and architectural designs,” says O’Neill. original construction programme by six

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A new sub sector of construction The Department for Environment, CHANGING has emerged in recent years. With Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) then substantial drive from insurers, this convened a “round table of commercial CONSTRUCTION mini-industry concerns floods, or interests” in flooding, headed by the rather buildings’ resilience to flooding. former head of BRE, Dr Peter Bonfield, TO BOOST FLOOD After major floods in Cumbria, with the aim of finding ways to encourage Somerset, Yorkshire and elsewhere more use of property flood resilience RESILIENCE in recent years, proponents of making (PFR) measures. properties more resilient are calling Bonfield’s Flood Resilience Action A SERIES OF WET WINTERS HAVE for changes to building regulations. Plan, published in September 2016, set CHANGED ATTITUDES TO FLOOD RISK. That is certainly on the cards. But out what five task groups would do, THIS YEAR, THE FIRST OUTPUTS FROM THE the immediate aim is to get more such as embedding more PFR in small GOVERNMENT-BACKED FLOOD RESILIENCE properties at risk retrofitted with flood businesses and launching an online ACTION PLAN WILL INCLUDE A NEW resilience measures. source of public information on flood CODE OF PRACTICE FOR CONSTRUCTION The floods of 2015/16 caused about resilience. Two years on, Bonfield is no PROJECTS, WITH CHANGES TO BUILDING £1.3bn in property damages, according longer actively involved, but momentum REGULATIONS ALSO IN THE PIPELINE. to the Association of British Insurers – has been maintained. The round table is JON MASTERS EXPLAINS and cost the wider economy a reported now chaired by Aviva’s head of technical £5bn. Stories that emerged in the property claims, Graham Brogden. aftermath included tales of despairing From the round table, a code of practice businesses and homeowners flooded and guidance on PFR is being written for for the second or third time over the use by local authorities and all sectors space of a decade. of building and property industries.

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“There is a 2015 flooding hit, they were ineffective market for because they hadn’t been maintained. Property flood contractors to The new code of practice will include a help insurers take section on maintenance.” resilience in York the lead, with The government’s response since the advice on what last big flooding events of 2015 included works and how a £2.5bn grant fund for flood defences resilience can be improved” up to 2021. The Ministry of Housing, PFR measures are used in Hamish Hall, WSP Communities & Local Government a case of repeated flooding says £300m has been awarded to flooded businesses and communities. Mary Dhonau’s Know of 2015, the 11th flood the With input from CIRIA, BRE, CIWEM, Further grants are available from the Your Flood Risk campaign owners had experienced the Environment Agency and others, Environment Agency. has helped homes and since they bought the the new code is expected around March businesses install property listed Georgian cottage in this year. It will be pitched at designers, Insurance schemes flood resilience (PFR) 2006. Some PFR had been features, including one fitted before then to cope contractors and homeowners, on various Meanwhile the Flood Re scheme home in York which has with frequent shallow methods and processes of PFR, including offers insurance for buildings built been overwhelmed by flooding, but the 2015 flood vital aspects of surveying to assess risk before 2009. For newer properties, flooding in the past decade. was far bigger, trapping its and appropriate measures. it’s assumed flood risk assessments, The owners of the house occupants on the upper “This will be the biggest and planning guidance and good design on the River Ouse have had floor for four days. their property “tanked” up Since then the PFR probably most important output so will ensure they are not at risk. to dado rail height – with measures have been far from the first two years of the round “There is a lot of focus on SUDS wall exteriors sealed and beefed up, with sump table,” Brogden says. [sustainable urban drainage systems] water resistant tiles and pumps in the kitchen CM spoke to a number of and other ways of keeping water paint on interior surfaces. and living room. The ground floor of The Georgian bow organisations involved in retrofitting out when it comes to new-builds, the house now has heavy windows have been PFR. All agree that a code of practice is but there’s still little certainty that wood-effect ceramic tiles, reinforced with concrete needed, partly because it’s a relatively properties are resilient, so we want doors have quick-release surrounds, with the new area of industry – one which has to influence changes to building hinges and virtually all of approval of a local grown as Defra and other government regulations in favour of PFR. Until that the ground floor furniture conservation officer and including the kitchen units the owners now have departments have made grant funding happens we will not have much traction can be either raised or bespoke steel barriers for available for flood recovery. on increasing the resilience of newer moved upstairs. fitting across the lower “We found a lot of people selling properties,” Brogden says. All of this was done floor windows in readiness their services after the grants were The generally accepted approach after the Boxing Day flood for extreme flooding. first announced, but they were often to PFR (which will be reflected in the poorly fitted or ineffective measures. code of practice) adopts a stance of So the determination was that next combining appropriate flood protection time absolutely it [PFR] must be done with measures designed to minimise properly,” says Brogden. damage and allow as quick a recovery Maintenance is another important as possible – installing concrete floors issue, likely to be covered in the new and lifting electrical sockets and white code, Brogden adds: “One of the main goods, for example. problems we found in Cumbria was There is an acknowledgement that that, while some properties were fitted some flooding is unavoidable when with defences after the floods of 2005 extreme weather hits and that water and 2009, in the form of temporary should be allowed to enter a property The River Ouse in York has flooded frequently in recent years door guards and barriers, when the rather than build up against walls

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Floods in 2015/2016 caused about £1.3bn in property damages, says the Association £1.3bn of Building Insurers

“It’s important to realise that the average flood is 0.3m high. Most can be kept out… but some are very big and will overtop the best defences” Mary Dhonau, Know Your Flood Risk

so high (to depths of 600mm or more) that it results in structural damage. A major sticking point for PFR, acknowledged as a cause of a lot of difficulty for homeowners, is the number of organisations involved. “Pulling all the different players and guidance together is a big challenge for PFR,” says senior architect for the Concrete Centre, and flood resilience task group member, Elaine Toogood. “It’s also a quite tricky and subtle area of specialism, because there are so Flooding around “A specific scheme with a local Dhonau played in speaking to residents. many variables: different types of East Lyng, on the authority may involve a portfolio of After experiencing flooding herself on Somerset Levels, flood and risk; different ways of in January 2014 properties, but we’re treating each and more than one occasion, Dhonau made mitigating.” their owners individually, with either a her own home resilient and has since As the head of water development bronze, silver or gold level of PFR. The forged a career as a PFR consultant, for consultant WSP, Hamish Hall has owners have some control over the level as well as chief executive of the Know substantial experience of recent flood of funding and their independence is Your Flood Risk campaign and website. resilience projects. He says: “The important, so they can make an informed “Contractors are on a learning curve move to a policy of all-out prevention decision on what level of protection and when it comes to PFR; we all are. What’s to one of protection and resilience resilience to go for,” says Hall. strongly needed is more research to get is an important one. PFR is the right “Contractors in general are struggling a body of knowledge behind the advice, approach in many cases, but it’s still with a plethora of products on the on what works and which materials work often difficult to get homeowners to market, some of which require other together, such as waterproof insulation accept that flooding will occur.” things to have been done. But there is and cement-type plaster for tanking WSP has submitted to the code of a lot of opportunity for contractors. rooms up to certain heights,” she says. practice steering group a list of 20 Insurers are emerging as the drivers of “It’s important to realise that the learning points from a recent PFR PFR. They will eventually fund a lot of average flood is 0.3m high. Most can be project in the Midlands carried out with it instead of government, so there is a kept out or recovered from easily, but a local authority and the owners of 16 market for contractors to help insurers to some are very big and will overtop the homes. The list reflects the complexities take the lead, with advice on what works best defences. People at risk need to of dealing with multiple different people and how resilience can be improved.” acknowledge, adapt and be ready so that and circumstances and the potential WSP’s submission to the steering they can get back to normal quicker and opportunities for contractors. group acknowledges the role that Mary reduce the trauma of being flooded.” ●

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Lessons from BRE’s flood house

THE BRE HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATING FLOOD RESILIENCE MEASURES AT ITS INNOVATION PARK Fire services test the flood house resilience

The property flood resilience (PFR) seepage through walls and floors water on the roof is opened to flood “PFR is a sensible approach. In approach of combining some towards drainage channels and a the home to show how it all works. most cases there is a balance to be protection to keep water out, sump pump. “It’s a fairly low-tech solution, but had between flood resistance and with resilience for rapid recovery, Inside there are water-resistant having this flood resilient home on properties’ resilience to flooding.” has been demonstrated over the wall and under-floor insulation, plus show is important for aiding people’s BRE is planning an event for past two years at BRE’s Garston a waterproof kitchen, wallboards understanding, by demonstrating February 2019, for “refreshing” Innovation Park. instead of plasterboard and the theory of PFR,” says David Kelly, the PFR measures demonstrated The Flood Resilient Repair Home ceramic tiles with rugs in place group director for BRE’s Centre for at Garston. “We want industry at the park has enhanced seals of carpets. Sockets and wiring Resilience and Innovation Parks to submit their ideas and will be to doors and windows and has are raised and white goods are at Network (and member of the PFR issuing an invite for this in the membranes for diverting water worktop height. A large tank of code steering group). New Year,” Kelly says.

Testing the resilience of the BRE flood house

3 4 5 1. Waterproof membrane and resilient insulation behind boarding 2. Magnesium oxide waterproof wallboard 1 6 2 3. Flood-resisting window 4. Flood-resisting door 5. Spray-applied waterproof foam insulation 7 6. Natural cement waterproof render 9 7. Sockets placed above flood level 12 8 8. Waterproof magnesium oxide wall boards (bottom) and plasterboard (top), fixed horizontally 9. Perimeter sub floor drain 10. Ceramic tiles over insulated 14 11 concrete screed 10 11. Floor drains direct to sump pump 12. Sump and twin pumps 13. Sub floor membrane, resilient 15 insulation and concrete screed 14. Water-resisting kitchen 13 cabinets and doors 15. Backflow protection in toilet drain

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IN PICTURES | FIVE NEW INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATIONS CM TAKES A LOOK AT SOME OF THE LATEST DIGITAL INNOVATIONS AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGES ON GROUNDWORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

Remote sensors on Royal College of Music groundworks Shoring specialist Groundforce is using a wireless monitoring system for real-time measurement of static loads and potential movements on Gilbert-Ash’s Royal College of Music project. The complex scheme involves constructing a 7m-deep basement and extension in the central courtyard. Groundforce’s FlatMesh technology uses wireless nodes attached to the hydraulic struts supporting the basement excavation, which pass their signal to a 3G gateway module, providing alerts about any unwanted movement in surrounding structures.

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Piling specialist uses VR to monitor live projects Ground engineer Aarsleff has developed a virtual reality (VR) app with software house Luminous which allows the contractor and clients to check project progress remotely. The app uses 3D simulation and data mapping to bring project drawings to life, which helps estimators with project proposals and allows technical staff to determine appropriate rig type and assess surrounding conditions without ever having to step foot on site. Drones survey 230km of HS2 route One of the largest drone surveying jobs in the world has covered 230km of the HS2 route from London to Birmingham in just three weeks. Tech firm SenSat, licensed through the government’s drone pathfinder programme, carried out digital topographical surveys using drones fitted with high resolution cameras. These generate thousands of photos which are stitched together into point clouds (pictured). The data, accurate to within 15mm, will be used to plan enabling works.

A14 earthworks uses Skanska cuts emissions digital digging tech 98% in ‘electric site’ pilot The Costain-Skanska-Balfour Beatty team on Skanska and Volvo Construction Equipment

the £1.5bn A14 improvement project is using have achieved a 98% reduction in CO2 machine control technology for the earthworks. emissions on an “electric site” trial. Running Specialist earthmover Walters is shifting for 10 weeks at a quarry near Gothenburg in 12 million cu m of material with help from Sweden, the pilot used eight autonomous, Topcon’s Sitelink3D system, which is installed battery-powered load carriers (pictured), a on its excavators and dozers. This provides hybrid wheel loader and cable-connected operators with a site model on an in-cab hybrid excavator, plus machine control and display which connects with Walters’ office, logistics management systems. The results allowing remote monitoring, design changes, also showed a 70% drop in energy use and data exchange, reporting and analytics. a 40% reduction in operator costs.

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Is it a lack of trust, lack of investment? Are people scared of the unknown? Vicki Holmes: It’s a mixture of all of the above. The tools we are investing in to deliver digital construction are of an unknown standard. We get hardware and software but end up with people on site using iPads which aren’t compatible with their site gloves, so you have to learn as you go as you’ve already invested in it. Secondly, it’s humans who are using it and it’s asking humans to change their mindset to something awkward. If you have any negative feedback from that experience you go back to what you know. Paper doesn’t clunk. Neil Donaghy: Having rolled out tablet technology, it exposed how scared individuals were to press the go button as the data went out to the world and they couldn’t get it back. They couldn’t relate input to output. Reporting formats don’t brand themselves to look like a How will construction project teams corporate document so people will go USING DIGITAL collaborate in the future and what kind back to completing paper forms. of techniques will they use to minimise May Winfield: A lot of it is about TO COLLABORATE risk? With increasingly complex projects mindset. Construction is not to deliver and extensive supply chains to innovative. Contracts in law are very IPADS AREN’T COMPATIBLE WITH SITE GLOVES, manage, information management and reactive – only when something has CONTRACTS HAVEN’T KEPT UP WITH A DIGITAL AGE data sharing is crucial to all construction happened or someone has lost a lot of AND WE’D RATHER DIE THAN MODERNISE – SOME companies. Can the digital sharing of money do you see change. Contracts OF THE REASONS WHY PAPER IS STILL GOING information help foster improved insist on BIM Level 2 but no one has lost STRONG ACCORDING TO PARTICIPANTS IN performance and what are the barriers a lot of money yet. Banks and lawyers CM’S LATEST ROUND TABLE WITH BLUEBEAM. to making it happen? And why do so few have paper contracts. They don’t DENISE CHEVIN CHAIRED THE DEBATE seem to have mastered it? understand the changes and technology These were some of the talking in the way we work so they go for the points at a round table convened at safest option. No lawyer will put in Construction Manager’s offices in a clause that says you will only have London, in association with Bluebeam, electronic deliverables. They won’t say on the theme of better collaboration, you don’t need paper copies any more. now and in the future. You need a test case. It is changing but it’s a legal mindset of mitigation. Denise Chevin: Given there is so Thomas Lindner: There are three issues. much evidence and efficiency to be When you work in construction you gained using digital systems why do have a limbic system that tells you are

people still feel wedded to paper? tough and you work hard. The second is JULIE KIM BY PHOTOGRAPHY

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that you’re single-minded – that thick- “People want to hand over paper JE: We are trying to drive it. We are not headedness that there isn’t another way to say ‘that’s what we signed up to’, specifying paper outputs: we are asking to do it. The last one is this belief that you but it’s a point in time – whereas a for digital models and we’ve a had a bit of must make no money. We have paper- digital model is a live moving beast” pushback with connection to 2D layouts. thin profit margins and the problem is Javed Edahtally, Met Police All information from the supply chain that we are proud of that. Paper is the should migrate over to digital without single-mindedness. We’ve been told to need for paper whatsoever. We can modernise or die but we’d rather die. review all drawings digitally. That’s our Mike Turpin: We need to see the value approach – we do want to go paperless, of it, but the industry doesn’t see a we see no need for paper at all. tangible benefit. THE PANEL VH: People are still being paid per DC: Is there a legal issue? drawing which is against the ethos of JE: Yes, that’s come up especially with digital construction. BIM Level 2 contracts. People want to Todd Wynne: Paper is static. If that’s hand over paper to say “that’s what we printed it’s not changing, but it will signed up to” – even a PDF. But it’s a point need to change as it’s already obsolete. in time, whereas a digital model is a live Javed Edahtally: But there is a moving beast. So, there is an issue too generation that is born to digital, so about intellectual property – specific we are moving. Vicki Holmes Neil Donaghy Thomas Lindner design that people have created: they Learning partner, Head of BIM Director, Holden Multiplex and digital River Consulting feel it belongs to them. We have had a DC: What’s your level of going digital? engineering, lot of resistance but there aren’t many VH: As an organisation we are using Skanska contractors working truly in BIM 2. digital managers as champions for Gibbs Burke: Unfortunately, it’s an bringing in new technology. It has forced uphill battle with our supply chain. They a mind shift. Along with that we have like paper as it’s a physical thing they can had to figure out how we capture every hand to you. We have to set the bar – so person at every level. Everyone becomes we have to refuse to accept it. I insist on the champion of their own little win. digital. You have to pull the plug on the We are moving in the right direction. printer, take away their drawings. I had a ND: We started using technology in May Winfield Javed Edahtally Gibbs Burke guy who walked up several storeys three 2008/9. Had some good wins in how Senior Head of BIM and Senior facade to four times and back because he took construction management, construction people interfaced with devices. We still lawyer Metropolitan manager, the wrong drawings from his desk. I had have a journey to go and we could do Police Ballymore them on the iPad right there. things like ban use of printers during certain times of day. We could ban DC: So, we need people to understand Excel. We could go to databases directly. that digital leads to efficiencies? TL: After the mindset the next issue is MW: The fundamental starting point is lack of leadership. If you have a facility contracts, but also clients’ requirements. to print, people will use it – it’s their Lots say they’d like to do a bit of digital comfort blanket. If you provide an but they don’t know what, they just want alternative, they will use it. Mike Turpin Todd Wynne James Chambers to save some money. Lawyers don’t MT: It’s finding the right balance in the Director and digital VP of business UK country understand BIM either. So the client right place. There are certain situations BIM consultant, development manager, turns to the supply chain and asks for a Innovating Futures and partnerships, Bluebeam where paper is right but other times a Bluebeam vague thing rather than saying: I don’t tablet or laptop is right. want any paper. Once you force people

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Thomas Lindner: “If the person at the front isn’t competent to put the information in, that’s as bad as the person receiving the data and not knowing how to interpret it”

into a different way of working, they will “The reason have one, can you give us everything?” to reduce risk of hitting my thumb with see it is more efficient but until you make we like paper We’d start the job and six months later a hammer was to have competence. The people do it a different way there is a fear. is anonymity. get introduced to the FM team. It’s a same applies. If you know what you’re VH: There’s a huge element of finding When you have disconnect. If a banking company is doing the risk is not going away but it your “why” to it. At Multiplex we were a digital file building a site they will have an FM team is reduced because you’re competent. If pushing BIM for a while as everyone else you can see somewhere but the people constructing the person at the front isn’t competent was but we didn’t know why. But then we who authored that site aren’t connected to them. to put the information in, that’s as bad reassessed and said: let’s ignore the client what” James Chambers: So many people as the person receiving the data and not and subcontractor and ask what does BIM Gibbs Burke, are reliant on all of this but it’s so knowing how to interpret it. If there’s do for us? What does digital construction Ballymore fragmented. Is there a way forward? no trust in the system people go back give us in terms of benefits? When we JE: Consultants and contractors all to what they know. listed those, we came up with a minimum point and blame at each other. MW: It goes back to the contract. The standard for modelling and asset data. GB: The reason why we like paper so reason people have disputes is when If the client doesn’t want operational much is the anonymity. If everyone something goes wrong everyone points requirements, we can guarantee that marks it up no one can tell but as soon fingers then pulls out the contract to see in five years’ time if they’ve had five as you have a digital file you can see where risk is allocated. Then people are Multiplex projects the data sets will be who authored what. You can pinpoint happier to take it. The issue goes away the same. So when they realise they do who wrote it if it goes wrong. a lot faster or it doesn’t become an issue want that data they can have it. in the first place. It’s more time and cost ND: There’s a big risk that consultants DC: Are there tangible benefits? efficient for disputes if you use digital. feed clients a pile of “not good TL: It’s about using tools to minimise ND: Continual design changes cause information”. Some of the specs risk. As trainee carpenter the only way inefficiencies as the client doesn’t know Skanska have gone through have caused problems. They are rubbish. MT: A lot are so complicated – 100 pages long, duplicates, trying to make it look good. MW: You see cut-and-paste jobs in tenders. Half is not relevant. GB: Wouldn’t knowing where that cut and paste has come from make it safer? Do they take the digital document and scan it back in so no-one takes liability? You should be able to see where people have marked it up. MW: I think it’s more that some consultants try to be comprehensive so have a document asking for everything with different versions of it. Employers Javed Edahtally don’t know because they have different (centre): employers. So we ask: do you need that? “With digital VH: I’ve been on both sides. I was a BIM classifications it’s consultant. There were times when you helping to minimise risk around the would speak to the construction team not consistency of the FM team, so we would ask operational information we are requirements and were told “We don’t getting back”

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what they want and keeps changing that you can’t build something with May Winfield: while work is under way. We should traditional philosophies. “It’s more time and cost efficient have the same system as in Japan where Change seems slow but it’s MT: for disputes if you you can’t start building until the design actually fast when you look back over use digital” is signed off. the past six years. VH: We found projects that were TW: I keep hearing that we need to unbuildable once you analysed in 3D. change people but we can’t change We had tenders for concrete come back people. We are the product of our all with different quantities and costs. environment, so what I would challenge We did a take-off in an hour from the is changing the environment around model and asked them to resubmit. Then your people and they will change. you’re picking the subcontractor who is In my past I introduced a firm to iPads. the strongest not the cheapest. We didn’t change the people, we didn’t “That’s what If you could change JE: With digital classifications it’s take away their printers and paper, we we need to do one thing to drive helping to minimise risk around the focused on surrounding them in their in the industry digital ways of working consistency of information we are environment with easier systems. We – change the what should it be? getting back. The other thing is we printed isometrics on 30x40 paper and environment have created an asset information hung them in the trailer. In the meeting not the people. More cloud- Make it simple based document – and start with requirement at each design stage and they would stand up and point to the Let them make the change management micro-changes who that will be delivered to. It tells model on paper. I told him he was doing systems that are at the bottom. everyone what to deliver and reduces BIM. Focus on the technology that allows themselves” less siloed. Todd Wynne the risk for us as everyone is aware that evolution. That’s what we need to do Todd Wynne, Neil Donaghy Bluebeam Make it easy contractually what they need to do. in the industry, change the environment Support people and accessible, not the people. Let them make the change to progress support them DC: Is digital promoting flexibility of themselves when they see it’s easier. and change not force them. working, is that helping? VH: But those decisions come from the environment Mike Turpin even if it’s not a JE: I’m from a design engineer senior management. So we still have Find “the why” traditional role – always know background where you have engineers to change those people. in the company. why you are from all over the world working on one TW: Start with micro changes at the May Winfield doing it. particular part who can link in real time bottom. When I bought a drone it was a Education is Vicki Holmes and collaborate. That’s immensely toy but we saved $450,000 on one project the key. Making Three words: useful for delivering design and moving with that drone. Look for your champions tools available leadership, and educating forward for construction. and early adopters. It’s amazing how the competency and people on how mindset. MT: People are afraid of people working virus spreads. Focus on equipping them to use them. Thomas Lindner from home as they don’t know what with new tools then they will choose that James Chambers they’re producing unless they are sat change. We wrote in contracts that people We need Give employees intelligent tools they need there from 9-5. The attitude seems to be use iPads and didn’t have much success to progress unless someone sends me one drawing a but had more success when we hosted clients to drive robust digital it forward. day how do I know what they’re doing? training on how to use them. I persuaded change. Gibbs Burke a drywaller in Texas to buy an iPad at Javed Edahtally DC: Software sharing – is there still personal cost. I saw him three years later reluctance to use it or is that bound up and his entire company was using them. in that they want the comfort of paper? It’s about technical literacy; for some JC: Technology isn’t going away, and it’s the first computer they’ve touched the complexity of projects isn’t going and spinning a BIM model is another level away either – it will get to the point up, so make it simpler and democratise. ●

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Steve Coppin Arcadis and HSE BIM4 Working Group

Among the many touted benefits of BIM, l 4D animations which show construction one that has received less attention to date is Boosting safety over time; the likely safety gain through better planning l An integrated common data environment. of the design and construction. with BIM But often this is left too late in the That should change with publication process, meaning opportunities are lost. of a new guidance note for clients writing THE HSE’S BIM4 WORKING GROUP The new guidance provides clear details on employer’s information requirements (EIR) HAS DRAWN UP NEW GUIDANCE FOR how the EIR should be drafted and integrated which implement BIM on a project. The INCORPORATING SAFETY RISK INTO with BIM. It outlines 10 key questions (see document has been drawn up by the Health DIGITAL MODELS, WITH INPUT FROM box below) that should help clients define & Safety Executive (HSE) BIM4 group, MAJOR CLIENTS AND CONSULTANTS. their key issues based on PAS1192 section 6, whose members include National Grid, STEVE COPPIN EXPLAINS which was published last year and deals with the Environment Agency, Network Rail, health and safety. TfL, Arcadis and Arup. It is chaired by HSE inspector Gordon Crick. Key principles of the guidance include: Consideration of health and safety l Focus on the end result and what you want information requirements is critical from the to achieve – make the EIR clear and effective; outset of a project. The Construction (Design l Incorporate the CDM health and safety file and Management) Regulations 2015 place into the common data environment to ensure responsibility for co-ordination of health and that pertinent health and safety information safety during the preconstruction phase with is retained effectively; the principal designer, who is appointed by the l Establish the common data environment client. This key role also involves liaising with early and clarify within the EIR how health and the principal contractor to help in the planning, safety information will be stored and shared managing, monitoring and co-ordination of the 3D models in the design phase provide throughout the project lifecycle; construction phase. One aim of this guidance is visualisations which can identify safety risks l Be clear on the data that should be recorded, to help principal designers comply with their shared and archived. legal duties on projects under CDM 2015. Remember that you could be breaking the There is a great opportunity to use BIM law by not identifying safety risks on a project to support improved health and safety – using BIM methodology can help ensure practices and achieve compliance. This can you are compliant. ● be achieved through: Steve Coppin is associate technical l 3D models in the design phase to provide director at Arcadis and a member of visual pictures and animations; the HSE BIM4 Working Group.

10 essential questions clients should ask when preparing an EIR

1. What early project the project lifecycle and affect and feedback on risk different design disciplines 9. What arrangements will be decisions will have health parties beyond the project? management? are capable of effective put in place at the outset to and safety implications for 3. Has relevant and good 5. What are the design risk federation and can that ensure that information in a the operation and end use quality health and safety objectives? health and safety information health and safety file is made be conserved for re-use? of the asset? preconstruction information 6. Has a design plan been available to the end user? 2. Can the common data been provided to the requested, inclusive of a 8. What are the arrangements 10. How will the client be environment enable health design team? collaborative design risk that will be put in place at the able to ensure that lessons and safety information to be 4. Have you specified management plan? outset to ensure testing and are learnt from this project commissioning is carried out captured, stored and retrieved reviews at key stages to 7. Has it been requested experience, in relation to effectively? as needed at every stage of enable collaborative working that models produced by the health and safety?

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The other interesting aspect of the judgement is the treatment of voluntary ex-ante transparency (VEAT) notices. Assad Maqbool Lucy Doran Public authorities use these notices to Trowers & Hamlins Trowers & Hamlins transparently notify interested parties of intended arrangements which might Faraday v West Berks: fall outside strict compliance with public procurement rules. A properly EU procurement rules OK issued VEAT notice will mitigate the risk of a contract being declared void A LEGAL ROW OVER A DEVELOPMENT for failing to comply with EU rules. AGREEMENT BETWEEN ST MODWEN The court held that the wording in the AND A LOCAL AUTHORITY PROVIDED A VEAT notice issued by the council did CLARIFICATION ABOUT PROCUREMENT not provide sufficient detail about the RULES FOR PUBLIC WORKS works obligations in the development CONTRACTS. LUCY DORAN AND agreement, and that the justification ASSAD MAQBOOL EXPLAIN for being a non-regulated contract was incorrect. Therefore, the VEAT notice was not valid and did not act as a defence to Faraday’s claim. The importance of this is highlighted by the court issuing the first ever declaration Regeneration projects involving EU A rival developer, Faraday, challenged of ineffectiveness in England and Wales, procurement rules are seen by some as the council in the high court, arguing rendering the contract prospectively costly, inflexible, and uncommercial. “The that the development agreement was void and requiring it to be unwound. Clients sometimes seek ways to ensure importance a public works contract, obliging the The decision confirms that contracts their contracts are not subject to such is highlighted developer to carry out works for a public committing the developer to undertake regulation. by the court authority, so should have been subject full work obligations will ordinarily On 15 November 2018, a court of appeal issuing the to a full EU procurement process. fall within the procurement rules. judgement for Faraday Development v West first ever The court of appeal held that, while the This should not be seen as an end to Berkshire Council overturned the high court declaration of development agreement did not impose non-procurable land arrangements decision, clarified rules on public works ineffectiveness binding works obligations on St Modwen, between the private and public sector contracts and concluded a proposed in England and once it exercised its option to lease – a number of models are still compliant regeneration scheme in Newbury was Wales” the land, an enforceable public works and this will continue to be the case. subject to full EU procurement processes. contract would come into existence. Helpfully, the court also confirmed the The council had entered an agreement This made it a regulated contract which view that section 106 agreements are not with St Modwen Developments for the should have been publicly procured. public works contracts and so remain disposal of land on an industrial estate The principle that this case entrenches outside the EU procurement regime. east of Newbury town centre. This is not a surprising one in light of existing As a result, contracting authorities involved the council and St Modwen European cases. Essentially, if a public may continue to style development agreeing development strategies for each authority enters into an agreement with transactions as straightforward land plot and allowed the latter to exercise an a private sector party, which is then deals and rely on the planning process option to transfer the ground lease. In obliged to carry out works, no matter how to ensure that the land is used for the this scenario, St Modwen would have to the deal is structured, the presumption purposes that they require. ● develop the land according to the local should be that the agreement will be Lucy Doran and Assad Maqbool are authority’s detailed requirements. subject to EU procurement processes. partners at Trowers & Hamlins.

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Christopher Reeves Mediation for Construction

“Letters of intent” are used as an interim mention specific parts in its acceptance measure, which can allow work to start Arcadis v Amec: to indicate it agreed with all the terms. on a project, until the final contract is In this case, the appeal court decided agreed. They usually refer to a “cap”, Letters of intent there was no evidence of a rejection of the idea being to limit the amount of any of the terms or a counter-offer. Once work done. The common way of doing THE COURT OF APPEAL’S DECISION TO REVERSE the judge in the lower court had found this is to set a maximum amount the A HIGH COURT RULING ON A LIABILITY CAP there was acceptance by conduct – the contractor is paid but the scope of work DEMONSTRATES WHY LETTERS OF INTENT NEED interim contract – it followed that Amec is often ill defined. CLARITY, SAYS CHRISTOPHER REEVES unequivocally accepted all the terms. In this court of appeal case, the cap was on liability for design work Hyder No responsibility inferred (later bought by Arcadis) carried out Arcadis thought the lower court for CV Buchan (an Amec subsidiary) on decision appeared “harsh”. The court the 3,000-space Castlepoint car park in of appeal agreed, saying: “If parties are Bournemouth, which was built back in in a stage of negotiation and one party 2003. But it was found to be defective [Amec] asks the other to begin work, only two years later. Amec settled a ‘pending’ the parties entering into a claim with the main contractor Kier formal contract, it cannot be inferred and then claimed £40m from Hyder to from the other party [Hyder] acting cover rectification costs. on that request that he is assuming Arcadis argued that any claim was any responsibility for his performance, limited to a cap on liability of £610,515. except such responsibility as will be The cap was mentioned in a “draft were not in play. But he decided the The Castlepoint assumed under the terms of the contract protocol agreement” and terms and parties had not formally agreed that car park in that both parties are confident will be conditions. The protocol was intended liability for Castlepoint was capped Bournemouth has shortly finalised.” used temporary to cover work on another project, not at £610,515, nor set any terms and supports since the The court of appeal said it would be just Castlepoint. conditions. problems emerged an “extraordinary result” if, by acting When Arcadis took the case to the on Amec’s request, Hyder assumed an Proposed changes to liability cap court of appeal, the key question was unlimited liability for its contractual On receiving its own letter of intent what terms and conditions the parties performance, when the parties had from Kier, Amec instructed Hyder to were working under. The court decided specifically agreed a limit of liability commence design and detailing work, that the earlier judgement had failed in relation to the interim contract. It its letter saying: “Your work is to be to distinguish between the interim reversed the original decision. carried out in accordance to the protocol contract under which the parties were If letters of intent are to be used, then agreement and terms and conditions currently working and the final contract, they must be clear on what terms and associated that we are currently working the terms of which would supersede the conditions apply in the interim period. under with yourselves.” interim contract once agreed. It said: If a cap on payment or liability is to A second letter the same day and “The court has to consider what was apply, then that needs to be spelt out subsequent communications proposed communicated between the parties and ensuing conduct or correspondence changes to the cap on liability, but no by words or conduct and decide needs to be consistent with that. If the protocol was ever signed. whether that leads objectively to the final contract terms are likely to depart The case finally made it to the conclusion that they had agreed upon from the “interim contract” then this Technology and Construction Court in all the terms.” should be indicated from the outset. ● 2016, when Mr Justice Coulson decided While the law requires a final and Christopher Reeves is a construction that while there was an “interim unqualified expression of assent, the lawyer and founder of Mediation for contract”, the terms and conditions appeal court felt Amec did not have to Construction.

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46-55 48 BRIGHT FUTURES CHALLENGE 49 DUBLIN NOVUS LAUNCH Community 51 DIARY DATES WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YOUR 51 MEET A MEMBER PROFESSIONAL BODY 54 ME AND MY PROJECT

The CIOB is seeking teams of full- time students studying a degree in the built environment. The winning team receives £2000 in prize money, along with access to a unique mentoring programme. The challenge takes place in stages over a number of months. The competition provides a realistic simulation where teams, made up of three or four people, act as a board of directors for their own company. The 'Foundation Years' stage, kicks off in January asking participants to run a virtual construction company in a simulated environment, testing out different strategies and refining tactics. The 'Early Years' stage starts a few weeks later. Teams now play competitively with other teams around the world, making decisions that influence the success of their companies. More than 60 teams entered the 2018 competition, with the six teams scoring the most in the early rounds being Competition The annual CIOB Global Student invited to the finals as part of the CIOB’s Challenge has now opened for annual Member’s Forum. In 2019 both Global Student registration for the 2019 competition. events will once again be run alongside Since 2014, the competition has each other, this time in Edinburgh. Challenge opens challenged built environment students The competition is only open to full- to run their own virtual construction time students, although there remains for entries company – with the leaders after an allowance of one postgraduate six weeks of competition given member per team. ● the opportunity to compete in finals THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION that attract talent from around Details can be found on the web site: IS BACK: REGISTER YOUR TEAM NOW the world. https://gsc.ciob.org/

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Community is edited by Nicky Roger Graduation [email protected] New MCIOB and FCIOB

CONGRATULATIONS TO NEW FELLOWS AND MEMBERS WHO WERE CONFERRED AT CEREMONIES AT CLOTHWORKERS HALL IN LONDON ON 5 OCTOBER AND ON 3 NOVEMBER AT TITANIC BELFAST

Novus LONDON Lee McGinley Paul Devine New Fellows Louise McSmith Gary Dickson Dublin NOVUS Robert Arzon David Michie Theo Duffy Will Barrett Mohammed Hamza Niall Finnegan kicks off new era Anthony Gushman Momade Zelene Josephine New Members Gary Moore Fitzsimmons SUCCESSFUL RELAUNCH Roy Barrett Ian Parsons Gavin Fry FOR IRISH GROUP Caroline Benjamin Manjeeta Pathak Catherine Gilmartin Martin Caldwell Lee Penny Joseph Graham Andrew Cheeseman Gareth Phillips Columb Gribbin Matthew Cockram Anthony Reid Keith Heaney Below: a great turnout for the Dublin Novus launch event Paul Cockram Nick Richardson William Hetherington Daniel Cordery Rebecca Samworth Martin Hoey Terence Cox John Sillars Edward Jackson Laura Crabb Judson Stone Aoife Kane Brigita Davidonyte Gavin Thomas Sean Killeen James Doubleday Darren Thompson Wesley Lindsay Gareth Drake Richard Williams Brian McCann Adam Ellis-Morgan Christopher Williams Declan McCann Robert Fogg Alex Willis Michael McCracken Niall Foley Thanancheyan Shane McCullagh Zoe Francis Yoganathan Paul McGread Demetrio Geroli Ross Young Darren McIvor Nicholas Paul BELFAST Johnny McKaigue Gibbons New Fellows Padraig McKaigue Derek Gibbs Desmond Scott Gerard McNamee Matthew Hall FCIOB Robert Ewing Cathal McOscar Tom Hall FCIOB Sean Moore Jennifer Hardi New Members Anthony Morgan The Dublin CIOB NOVUS committee by vice chair Adrian Lynch (see Sean Headley Gemma Armstrong James Murray hosted a launch to re-introduce the p51), was extremely successful and Michael Hennigan Rob Bazzant Paul Murray Novus branch after a short leave attracted 25 attendees from a variety Robin Hewitt Ciaran Bothwell James Nyland Neil Jeffrey Stephen Brown Colin Patterson of absence, to students and young of backgrounds, and at different levels Mark Kennedy Don Brownlee Emmett Teggart construction professionals. of their careers. CIOB development Derek Kirwan Thomas Buttle Ronnie Toombs The newly appointed committee is manager Rachel Corbally talked Tom Kitchen Peter Clarke Iain Whittick taking a fresh approach, and its objective people through the various routes to Peter Knight Peter Cole Gareth Wilson of the informal launch event was to membership and committee chair, Trevor Laurent Yvonne Conway New CBCs Nanmugan Paul Corr Forrme Construction break down any barriers to younger Aaron Molloy, outlined the upcoming Mariasingam Dermot Corrigan Woodvale professionals progressing their career. plans for site visits, CPD sessions and John McElhinney Sharon Dempster Construction The event, which was spearheaded other events to be organised. ●

Awards In the construction industry, no The initial stages of the awarded gold and silver medals other award carries quite the same competition are paper based. Those with one overall winner chosen CMYA Ireland kudos as CMYA which is now open who make it to the final are invited, from the gold medalists. for entires for CIOB Ireland. by the adjudicators, to interview. The winners will be announced opens for entry There is one overall category – The very high level of management at the CMYA Ireland 2019 Awards building - with five sub-categories expertise in Ireland gives assessors Dinner at Croke Park Stadium, Jones IT’S NOMINATION based on project values: and adjudicators an extremely Road, Dublin 3 on the 20 June 2019. TIME FOR THE l Projects over €100m difficult job, and year on year the l Projects €50m to €100m standard of entry continues to rise. CONSTRUCTION l Projects €30m to €50m The competition culminates with MANAGER OF THE l Projects €10m to €30m an awards dinner where the For an application form visit: YEAR AWARDS 2019 l Projects up to €10m winners of each category are www.ciob.org/cmya-ireland-2019

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Below: Mildands members on site

“It was exciting to find out about the challenges of delivering a scheme on this scale”

During the visit members took a tour of the delivered phase of the project; 315 self-contained bedrooms, a gym, laundry and office facilities and those areas of the building which are still under construction; a further 877 beds, a gym, cinema, open plan communal spaces, landscaped rooftop terrace and three ground floor retail units which will be handed over by August 2019, ready for a full house in the next academic year. Site visit Members in the Midlands recently While enjoying panoramic views gained an insight into the work across the city, members quizzed Members get being undertaken on the tallest new Winvic’s project manager Martin building to be added to Coventry’s Overfield and Laura Davison from the sent to Coventry skyline: a 23 storey student accomm- delivery architects RPS, on everything odation development on the corner from the design of the scheme to the WINVIC HOSTS A TOUR OF of Fairfax Street and Cox Street. challenges of working within a live STUDENT HIGH RISE BUILD Multidisciplinary main contractor operating environment. Winvic Construction Ltd is building Those who attended enjoyed the the 1,192 bed scheme for luxury opportunity to see the scale of the accommodation providers CODE. project, Robert Villette, managing director of First Project Main- Competition The 2019 Bright Futures Student Prizes up for grabs in the tenance said: “It was a privilege Challenge is underway with heats include vouchers to and exciting to be shown around Who will be heats set for London and South- the winning team and top Coventry’s tallest new building and ern. This challenge is an annual outstanding student, trophies to find out about the challenges the brightest event that gives students the for the winners, opportunity to stand out. certificates and bragging encountered when delivering a student in 2019? Regional heats take place rights. Teams of two to four residential scheme of this scale, on in London, Maidstone, and can enter online. a city-centre site with a tight footprint, Southampton Hubs on 6 Febru- The 2019 Final is sponsored whilst managing working within ary. The winning team(s) from by VolkerFitzpatrick and will BRIGHT FUTURES CHALLENGE each heat will be invited to the be taking place on one of its a live operating environment. OPEN FOR ENTRIES final on 6 March in London. sites in central London. Plus the views across the city were magnificent!”●

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Achievement Obituary CBC celebrates Stanley Whalley centenary FCIOB

MILESTONE ANNIVERSARY FOR ESSEX CONTRACTOR

STANELY PASSED AWAY ON 30 OCTOBER AGE 92.

Above: T J Evers East Anglia based construction firm with over 100 employees. A principal Stanley was fully involved with staff celebrate T J Evers Ltd – a CIOB Chartered contractor completing major works the CIOB over several decades. anniversary Building Company –celebrated its projects with values up to £6m it has In 1990 Stanely was awarded 100th anniversary as 2018 came to a worked on Papworth Hospital, Mercury honorary life membership of the close. Carpenter and joiner Thomas Theatre and Student Accommodation CIOB for his outstanding services to the Building Education Board James Evers spent his time during at Essex University amongst others. and his contribution regionally WW1 building reconnaissance aircraft Recent projects include 20 school and nationally. and then following the end of the war projects throughout Hertfordshire, Stanley joined the CIOB in 1955 established the company. Cambridge and Essex as well as and was admitted to fellowship in 1966. His service to the Institute The company has since grown housing developments and office at national level showed a into a full-service construction firm accommodation. ● devotion to the education field. He was a member of the Technical Education Panel from 1966 until Member success strong training ethos. “In 2007 we 1971 and of the Board of Building Education from 1967 until 1988. SME contractor had group of five collectively graduated “The CIOB He was a member of the National and when I joined five years ago I was was very Council twice – during the early celebrates another given the responsibility to develop the supportive 1970s and again in the early learning and development element and we held 1980s. He was dedicated too cohort of MCIOBs to regional affairs in Devon and within the company. I approached the a series of Cornwall, having served on the BAXALL CONTINUES ITS TRAINING CIOB three years ago as a number of one-to-one Cornwall Centre Committee from STREAK WITH MORE EMPLOYEES people in the company expressed an support 1965 and the Devon Cornwall CONFERRED AS MEMBERS interest to complete undertake their sessions Regional Council. He was the first final stages to get their MCIOB status. giving advice” centre Chair in 1966-68 and for two further periods in the 1970s Employees from Baxall Construction, “The CIOB was very supportive and and regional chair in 1982-84. a regional SME, were out in force in we held a series of one-to-one support A 50th anniversary celebration December at the CIOB conferring sessions with our staff and members was held in his honour at ceremony. Ten members of staff from of the CIOB. We were keen to support Cornwall College. After retirement Stanley was the firm have achieved MCIOB status, the staff through their different routes. involved with the Council For the following in the footsteps of four We started a homework club for those Preservation of Rural England as colleagues who were conferred the year doing the CMP and PR groups. Nearly chair of the Cornwall Branch. before and Steve Turner the contracts 80 per cent of our technical staff have a director achieving Fellowship. professional qualification – the majority The staff have all attained MCIOB of which are MCIOB.” ● via the training partnership route. Read more about Blaxall’s Training Steve explains the company has a Partnership at ciob.org

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Event On track for charity

SCOTTISH FUNDRAISER CONSTRUCTION KARTING COMPETITION

A new kart-racing challenge saw “It was over 90 members of the Highland terrific to construction and property sector race see everyone to win bragging rights and raise funds come together for an Inverness youth mentoring socially. We charity recently. are proud to The Highland Construction and support to Property Karting Challenge 2018 this charity” was held over two nights at Inverness Raymond More, Kart Raceway with 18 teams of racers committee member competing against each other. At stake were the Kingsmills Cup, which was presented to the fastest team over the two nights, and the Member success Kingsmills Shield, which went to the racer who recorded the fastest Irish firm boasts record individual lap. The winners were number of members revealed at the Highland Construction and Property Dinner in November. LARGEST EVER GROUP FROM ONE The event is a collaboration of CIOB, GRADUATES TO MCIOB Scottish Building Federation and RICS. The evenings raised £5000 for youth mentoring charity Day 1 committee. ●

Above: Members of the committee An Omagh based construction firm from Woodvale. They put in such of the Highland boasts the most candidates conferred hard work attaind their MCIOB and Construction and as CIOB members in November when 14 they, along with Woodvale, should Property Dinner with employees from Woodvale Construction be very proud to know they are the dinner host Nicky Marr, Day 1 mentor Company were awarded their MCIOB at largest group ever to graduate from on Eilidh Edgar and the a ceremony in November at the Titanic individual company. We are very proud operations manager Belfast (see p47). to have them as members.” of Inverness Kart Rachel Corbally, CIOB development In the same ceremony Desmond Raceway with the manager Ireland praised the members Scott FCIOB chair and Robert Ewing Kingsmills Cup on their achievement. “A huge FCIOB managing director, were and Shield; congratulations to all the graduates conferred as Fellows. Left: racers in action

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Adrian Lynch MCIOB Meet a member

Adrian Lynch MCIOB, senior project manager, Mitchell McDermott

Events to to figure out the issues on the project and prepare Diary dates mitigation plans for the risks. I enjoyed being put under pressure and working as a team with my class mates. I liked it so much I took part in it the following two years. This gave me HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CIOB CALENDAR FOR THE an introduction into the COMING MONTH. FOR MORE EVENTS VISIT CIOB.ORG CIOB which I feel has been very valuable in my career to date. Hub in a Pub management described thorough You were an extremely Since graduating I have high-achieving student continued my involvement 11 January 6pm, Dublin case studies, before describing how - first class degree in and I am now the vice chair Join the CIOB Dublin Hub committee the situation can be improved. construction management; of the CIOB Novus Dublin and Novus group to find out what the Contact: [email protected] awards for excellence; and and hope to influence young CIOB Dublin Hub is doing, chat about merit for your post-grad in people into the CIOB like I project management. Was was when I was a second industry matters, and network. Improving Mental Health in the construction industry year student. Contact: [email protected] Construction Industry a calling? 29 January, 6:30pm Guildford I started working in What do you love about CIOB/CITB NI Annual Lecture and Head of programme Stephen Haynes construction from an early this industry? And what Presentation Awards from Mates in Mind will cover mental age in the family company frustrates you? that my grandfather, What I love most is 23 January, 10am Antrim, Co. Antrim health issues in the workplace. Michael Lynch started over how diverse the people The lecture will be delivered by Heron He will explore how companies 60 years ago. As soon as are. There are so many Bros. The feature proejcts will be the are addressing them; starting the I was old enough, I was different people with new award-wining £35m Foyle College. conversation about mental health working on building sites. varied backgrounds and I was lucky enough to knowledge banks. I enjoy Contact: [email protected] and overcoming the stigma; spotting work on a vast variety of meeting and working with the signs and how managers can sites at an early age. This new people and learning Brexit - Strategic Advice and support their team; mental health first experience was valuable from others' experience. Practical Immigration Tips for aid; the Mates in Mind programme when I went to college in What frustrates me Employers and the support and guidance Limerick IT as I understood is how long it takes for how construction worked. the industry to innovate, 24 January, 8am, Leeds available. Experience in construction especially when you The practical steps you can take Contact: [email protected] cannot be taught out of compare the construction to minimise the impact of Brexit text books and I am a industry to other industry’s on your workforce. It will include Managing Mental Health and true believer that real life such as aviation, tech and experience is helpful for manufacturing. These other immigration, citizenship and Physical Wellbeing in Construction anyone considering a career industries implement new registration issues for existing EU 30 January, 6pm, Oxford in construction. technologies and innovative nationals; sponsor licenses and Bill Hill, chief executive of The ideas much quicker than the hiring non-EU workers. Lighthouse and Darren Putt, You give a lot of your time construction industry. There Contact: [email protected] owner and founder of Motus to the CIOB. You were a are still buildings being team leader in the Student designed in 2D in Ireland. Training tackle lifestyle, exercise Challenge in and now Schedule Integrity and How to and nutrition. They will deliver involved in Novus. Why? What›s your favourite way to Demonstrate it strategies and support and how to I first took part the CIOB spend free time? 24 January, 6.30pm, Prestwich improve your physical wellbeing, Student Challenge in my I follow Clare Hurling and second year in college and Munster and Ireland in Presentation by Shane Forth, PMO personal and mental health within I really enjoyed it. I loved Rugby. I also play golf Director Costain on the legacy the workplace. the real life project aspect at weekends and enjoy problems surrounding project Contact: [email protected] of the challenge. We had socialising with friends.

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“I have experience of mega projects but Medupi is imply on another level” Rob Bazzant

that the facility is zero effluent, meaning Power up no waste water is discharged from the plant. Project costs are currently ROB BAZZANT MCIOB ON HIS PROJECT estimated at ZAR185bn or £10bn. MANAGEMENT OF A SOUTH AFRICAN POWER When I arrived on the project I was PLANT CONSTRUCTION – DUBBED ONE OF immediately struck by three factors: the THE LARGEST PROJECTS IN THE WORLD. first was the intense heat – mid summer temperatures can reach thehigh forties; the second was the early start times – work started at 6am daily; and the third was the sheer staggering scale of the I arrived in the South African bushveld project. At its peak, Medupi was billed heaters installed, all supported by at the Medupi Power Plant project as the largest project under construction over 4m pages of quality control docu- in February 2012. Having spent in the world. Having already worked on mentation. Five of the six units are now the previous eight years based two projects with similar stature (Hong synchronized to the national grid with predominantly in London the culture Kong’s Chek Lap Kok and Heathrow’s the last one on target to be generating shock could not have been more T5 airport projects) I have experience energy by March 2019. emphatic. The rural isolation of of mega projects, but Medupi is simply The legacy Medupi leaves behind Lephalale, a small town 300km from the on another level. Over 250,000 tons can be measured nationally in terms of nearest major city of Pretoria, meant the of structural steel have been erected, a secure and stable power grid which Right and below: pace of life beyond the site was vastly The Medupi Power over 500,000 piping welds completed, has seen the practice of load shedding different to London. Plant in South Africa 36 major fans and 12 colossal gas air (the deliberate and selective isolation Medupi is a coal-fired power plant of power to specific locations to avoid with a generation capacity of 4,800 total network failure) become virtually megawatts of electricity, which is Me and my project nonexistent whilst locally the infrastruc- equivalent to approximately 10% of all ture has been vastly improved with electricity generated in South Africa new housing, roads, schools, hospitals and enough to provide power to over and retail facilities constructed in and 3m homes. Super-critical technology around Lephalale. The skills transfer is used in the six boilers to generate programme has also been a huge success superheated steam to temperatures with approximately 15,000 local citizens up to 560°C which results in a 38% benefitting from improved training, increase in efficiency to sub-critical education and qualifications. boilers. The means of heating the water I have been responsible for the to create this steam is by using clean coal construction completion and turn over technology with 16m tons of coal being to commissioning of three units to date. consumed annually. Medupi’s pulse jet My final challenge will be to turn M1 over filtration system and the soon-to-be- to commissioning by January 2019 and built de-sulphurisation plant means the bringing the construction of the plant to sulphur dioxide emission levels will be an end by March 2019. This will see my in line with the South African National time on the project extend beyond seven Environmental standards. Medupi will years which is difficult to comprehend be the fourth largest coal fired plant in in the modern era of construction. ● the world but can also boast of being the largest dry cooled power plant in Rob Bazzant is boiler construction the world, a technology which ensures manager at Shanahan Engineering Ltd.

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