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Future built environment leaders celebrated in inugural #G4Cawards

23rd February 2015 / Liz Schofield / 0 Comments

On Friday 13^th February, the Mercure Hotel in Sheffield was the venue for the first ever G4C Yorkshire & Humber awards, a dazzling ceremony bringing together over 170 construction professionals from across the sector to recognise, reward & celebrate the built environment leaders of tomorrow & the companies who support them.

G4C (Generation for Change) was established in 1998 as the junior brunch of Constructing Excellence with the aims of harnessing the power of the up and coming construction professionals to drive industry change for the better. Sponsored by Capita, the #G4CAwards, the first of their kind in any of the Constructing Excellence sub-regions, awarded winners across six different categories, each representing the principle areas of work by G4C, culminating in the G4C Award which was won by Mark Lee from EC Harris. Mark said “I am honoured to have been awarded the G4C Award. Having not followed a traditional route into the industry I hope my achievement will inspire others who had not previously considered a career in the construction industry to enter the sector”

Ian Buckley, Divisional Operations Director Capita commented: “We are proud to be a sponsor of Constructing Excellence’s Generation for Change – G4C Awards. We take great pride in having some of the best training schemes around for young graduates and will continue to support Constructing Excellence’s superb work.”

Other winners on the night included CGL who triumphed in the Commitment to Employee Development Award for their extensive employee training framework & ambitious goal of being one of the top 100 small businesses to work for in 2016. A full list of the winners can be found below.

The awards were the vision of G4C Yorkshire & Humber Co-ordinator, Caroline Key and supported in their delivery by Constructing Excellence Yorkshire & Humber (CEYH) based at Leeds Beckett University. The winners in each category will now go on to compete in the Young Achiever of the Year category at CEYH Awards 2015 to be held at National Railway Museum in York on 17^th July (more details here)

2015 Winners

Trainee of the Year (sponsored by Efficiency North)

Danielle Kirk, Henry Boot

Apprentice of the Year (sponsored by Futureworks Yorkshire)

Kwami Thompson, Constructing Housing Yorkshire & CITB

Student of the Year (sponsored by Willmott Dixon)

Nyall Lee, M3 Ltd

New Professional of the Year (sponsored by Henry Boot Construction)

Mohammad Jariwala, WSP

Commitment to Employee Development (sponsored by Yorkshire & Humber Best Practice Club)

CGL (Card Geotechnics Ltd)

G4C Award (Sponsored by SSE)

Mark Lee, EC Harris

CDM regulations 2015 – Are you up to speed?

10th February 2015 / Liz Schofield / 0 Comments

On 25th February we will be hosting an CDM regulations update event at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds from 5:30pm onwards.

Our first speaker will be Clive Johnson, Group Head of Health and Safety at Land Securities who has beem involved with the working group for the new regulations and will present on the key changes and what they may mean to you.

Our second speaker will be Jim Barron, Associate Director at Faithful & Gould, who will give the consultants perspective on the changes. Jim will explain how they are preparing for the proposed changes and the impact of key role changes, in particular that of the CDMC, which will cease to exist.

Full details and booking at the link below

Responding to the #FM challenge in 2015

4th February 2015 / Liz Schofield / 1 Comment

On 28th January 2015, we welcomed over 40 built environment professionals to our first Constructing Excellence breakfast event of the year which explored FM, asset management & the challenges of managing buildings in today’s ever changing workplace environments.

For this event we welcomed two speakers, Hedia Delly who gave a frank account of the challenges of managing FM at a rapidly expanding local company, Callcredit, and John O’Brien, Chair of CE Asset Management task group who presented on the group’s recent work on how to achieve operational excellence.

A summary of the presentations & discussion is detailed in our event storify below

#Savethedate Our next Constructing Excellence seminar will be a twilight event on 25th February 2015 focusing on the new CDM regulations.

#CEYHawards officially open for submissions!

22nd January 2015 / Liz Schofield / 0 Comments

We are pleased to announce that we are now taking submissions for the Constructing Excellence in Yorkshire & Humber Awards 2015. Last year’s awards were bigger & better than ever with a record number of submissions and over 350 professionals, representing a broad cross section of the construction industry, coming together at our gala dinner at Sheffield City Hall to celebrate the best that the regional built environment sector has to offer. Two of our regional winners were also victorious at the Constructing Excellence national awards in London last November, showing that construction innovation in the region is right up there with the best the UK has to offer (read more about last year’s winners here).

There are 13 different categories each representing the core themes underpinning the Constructing Excellence agenda including a new category for 2015, BIM Project of the year. Fully inclusive, entries are welcome from any companies, organisations or project teams involved in delivering built environment projects across the region. Our awards are completely free to enter and you are welcome (& indeed encouraged!) to submit as many entries as you like.

Entering the awards can bring numerous benefits to your business including raising your profile, introducing you to a wider client base and give you new market opportunities. It also gives you a great opportunity to reward the hard work of your employees over the last 12 months.

The close date for entries is Friday 15th May 2015 with the winners being announced at our gala dinner, this year to be held in York on Friday 17th July 2015 at the National Railway Museum.

For details of how to enter as well as information on sponsorship opportunities and table bookings please visit our awards page here

Good Luck!!

Showcasing the next generation of industry talent – G4C Awards 2015

7th January 2015 / Liz Schofield / 0 Comments

G4C – Generation for Change – was established in 1998 as the junior branch of Constructing Excellence and, following Constructing Excellence’s lead in collaborative best practice, G4C seeks to engage and inspire the next generation of construction professionals across disciplines. The group holds events and initiatives to provide members with opportunities both for networking and access to the latest innovative thinking to equip them with the necessary skills to drive continual improvement throughout the industry.

G4C Yorkshire & Humber are holding the first annual G4C Awards 2015 in Sheffield. These brand new awards aim to showcase excellence and celebrate the achievements of up and coming young construction professionals in the Yorkshire and Humber region and the companies who support and train the future leaders of the industry.

There are 6 categories to compete for, which will be judged by a panel of local industry leaders and experts:

Apprentice of the Year
Student of the Year
Trainee of the Year
New Professional of the Year
Commitment to Employee Development
G4C Award for Young Achiever

Please note shortlisting has now been completed on these awards

The inaugural G4C Awards winners will be presented with their awards at a special ceremony to be held at 6.00pm on Friday 13 February 2015 at the Mercure St Paul’s Hotel in Sheffield city centre.

Please find below details of entry requirements, entry forms, sponsorship opportunities & tabe booking forms.

If you have any queries about any of the above or just want to discuss the awards further, please contact caroline.key@citb.co.uk

Join us for a #CEYH2015 Asset Excellence breakfast

7th January 2015 / Liz Schofield / 0 Comments

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We are pleased to announce the details of our first #CEYH2015 breakfast seminar which will focus on facilities management, building management and asset excellence.

This seminar, held at Addleshaw Goddard in Leeds on 28th Jan, will feature presentations from two highly knowledgeable speakers in the sector,

Hedia Delly, Group Head of Facilities & H&S for Call Credit Information Group

“The challenges of managing buildings in a growing business”

Hedia is group head of facilities and health and safety at Call Credit Information Group, a fast growing information group. Hedia will give an overview of the challenges she has experienced in managing buildings and their facilities to respond to the fast growing and fast paced environment at Call credit over the last few years.

John O’Brien, FM and Asset Optimisation task group chair, CE

“How to deliver operational excellence in buildings – lessons learnt by CE’s asset management group”

Over the last two years John has chaired CE’s review of the lessons learnt by major clients across sectors including retail, health, commercial, industrial, education and infrastructure into how to procure, build and manage built assets to deliver operational excellence. John will summarise the conclusion of the groups work.

Lorimer’s Lunch: with Richard Lane, UK BIM Task Group

18th December 2014 / Liz Schofield / 0 Comments

On Wednesday 3rd December Constructing Excellence Yorkshire & Humber (CEYH) hosted the Constructing Excellence BIM Task group Q & A session with Richard Lane, Director of Creonova Consulting and Training Development Officer for UK BIM task group. The Q & A was conducted by John Lorimer as part of his “Lorimer’s Lunch” interview series for CEYH.

If hypothetically, the government removed the 2016 level 2 Mandate tomorrow, would the BIM transformation have already gathered enough momentum to carry on regardless?

The mandate has been incredibly valuable for establishing Government’s leadership around BIM, creating a broad conversation across the industry and pulling everyone together behind a common goal. It doesn’t guarantee success, particularly as it can be human nature at an individual level to resist when told what to do. Assuming that an increasing proportion of the industry now understands BIM and sees value in new ways of working I’m confident that transition would continue.

Have you seen any evidence of BIM implementation resulting in behavioural change/ more collaborative behaviours in the government departments you have worked with yet?

Definitely. From the outset clients are working collaboratively with their Tier 1 suppliers do define the specifics of BIM implementation within specific clients or frameworks. For example, in the development of template Employers Information Requirements documents.

There has also been been a definite increase in government departments working together, sharing knowledge to try and help each other for example Ministry of Justice, Department of Health and Met Police sharing ideas around standards for secure environments. Collaborative behaviours certainly aren’t universal but on the whole there has been a positive increase in government departments working collaboratively.

The public sector are risk adverse, how are they being empowered to do this?

The key for me is leadership. A great example of this is Terry Stocks, Deputy Head of the Estates Department, Ministry of Justice is setting the example by leading the implementation of BIM, two stage tendering & lean delivery through collaborative approaches.

Where do the barriers occur?

Most commonly where organisations are operating under business conditions which were set up prior to the implementation of BIM, where procurement methods, forms of contract and client requirements don’t support collaborative working or encourage trialling of new BIM working practices.

Is the BIM journey driving people to be more collaborative?

It helps. As long as the value is understood and the business environment is created to support it. As we approach the end of the 4 year BIM journey we are analysing progress made against the 10 tests of the hypothesis originally defined in the BIS BIM Strategy. (Details on government website here http://www.bimtaskgroup.org/bim-faqs/ – point 3) Key elements of this are that BIM has to be Understandable (something we continue to work on) and Valuable.

Are we recording that anywhere?

We are internally reviewing departmental implementation against the 10 tests, but it is unclear at this time if it would be shared publically in that form or used to inform other outputs such as case studies.

Questions from the floor

Benedict Wallbank, SmartBIM – What percentage of Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Defence tenders are now going out with EIRs (Employer Information Requirements)?

Those departments have templates for EIRs which we are starting to roll out on newly tendered projects now. We still have some work to do to establish the detailed requirements related to the information exchanges and the Digital Plan of Work (http://www.thenbs.com/bimtoolkit/)

should help with this. We must remember that we are still in a transition period and as we integrate BIM as “business as usual” EIRs will develop & evolve.

Howard Jeffrey, Skanska – How are you addressing the management of expectations during the transition period? Also what does collaboration actually mean?

When I first joined the BIM Task Group I think we relied too much on the mandate in our engagement with clients. Since then we’ve evolved our approach to where the conversations are much more client led and value driven. Clarity is key, it’s a lot easier to collaborate if everybody is clear on what is expected of each project participant.

David Jellings, Solibri UK – In your unique position what are the common threads and avoid the word “collaboration”

Compliance is key! Compliance with the 2016 mandate is being measured centrally within Government. Departments are defining the details of their implementation but with common criteria such as the transacting of data at agreed points in the process, the delivery of an EIR document. The journey is different but the destination is the same. We are all working to get value from the digital data.

About Lorimer’s Lunch

John Lorimer has worked as a client, consultant, major contractor and sub- contractor in the construction industry across the UK, Europe and the Far East. He is Chair of the BIM Academy, a Board member of CITB, Visiting Professor at Salford University, member of the BIS BIM Steering Group and Chair of the Constructing Excellence BIM Task Group. He is also Director of his own Consultancy service, JLO Innovation, specialising in BIM, Procurement and Business/Culture change.

Lorimer’s Lunch is a series of interviews John conducts with different BIM advocates from across the sector. Questions are invited from an assembled audience as well as over social media. Keep checking back on the Constructing Excellence blog for details of the next Lorimer’s Lunch & how to submit your questions.

2014 has been a successful year for CEYH – more to come in 2015 !!

27th November 2014 / Liz Schofield / 0 Comments

Yesterday over 20 guests and CE members came together to hear about the CEYH centres activities over the last year and to be invited to get involved in our CEYH 2015 awards on July 17th 2015 at York Railway Museum .

The morning was a bit of a treat and an opportunity to launch our forthcoming awards , invite judges and sponsors to be involved and also let members know about a couple of funding opportunities for organisations in the YH region .

Before jumping into the awards I took a moment to celebrate and share some of the successes CEYH has achieved since starting back in September 2013 .

1. Collaboration with the CE club

As one of Constructing Excellence’s nine regional partners we have forged excellent working relationships with our CE club to deliver a consistently well attended programme of monthly breakfast events here in Leeds , Sheffield and Hull – striving to promote work done through our CE national member task groups on changes to CDM regulations , new models of procurement , passiv haus and green building excellence, BIM and many other topics . All events have received good to excellent ratings in feedback showing we are doing something right and meeting the needs of construction organisations big and small within the region .

2. Exciting Membership offer

Aside from our programme of events we have worked with the club to develop a membership offering which is appetising and spiralling offering a wide range of activities to get involved in at a modest rate including attendance at our sister networks thinkBIM and green vision free of charge .

3. New Regional Board

We continue to develop our regional centre and in January will commence our CEYH board meetings which will drive and shape our agenda over the year to come . More of this to be announced in the New Year !….

4. Engaging the Young Professionals

Not only have we developed and strengthened our relationship with our club and national members but we have also worked closely with our young professionals group G4C supporting them with events marketing and most recently their G4C awards which are now open for submissions and will take place on Feb 13 in Sheffield . The winners of the G4C awards will form the short list for our young achiever award at the regional awards next year .

5. Celebrating Success at the CEYH Awards

Our regional CE awards have gone from strength to strength with our most recent awards attracting Peter Hansford, Chief Construction advisor to the government , as the keynote speaker and over 350 construction sector professionals coming together to celebrate success across the region. Further to this Yorkshire and Humber took home two awards for Innovation and Client of the year at the national CE awards in London .(see great blog write up by our very own @lizschofieldmay here )

Our relevance and effective dissemination of national activity at regional level is excellent and we are continually striving to improve our offering to members developing publications such as our winners brochure which is produced annually from our awards ceremony .

6. Communicating our message

Liz Schofield is working hard to develop our blog and communication channels so that our members and winners get great publicity for all of their work and now have a following of over 1000 on our twitter account and articles from our events being published on the national website and other leading sites such as BIM crunch and UKGBC pinpoint .. All achievements we are very proud of .

7. Coordination and collaboration

Our new project coordinator Donna organises and liaises with our guests , speakers and members and who above all keeps me on my toes and ensures we are reaching out to new partners and collaborating across the disciplines and sector .

8. Striving for excellence

We strive for cross disciplinary excellence in construction advocating collaborative working and digital construction and aim to provide the same excellence for our members with a regular , enjoyable and informative home / network that is inclusive and provides a platform for open knowledge exchange and networking .

We have come a long way in just over a year and look forward to what we may be able to achieve in 2015 with an established supportive board who will drive and direct the centre to provide events and networking and sharing of lessons learnt in projects and from task groups in an open way

If you would like to be more actively involved in the region by becoming a member please do call our team on 0113 8127601. As members you get full access to all of our events and opportunities to promote your organisation and projects via our blogs and social media platforms . We are always looking for case studies and thought pieces by members to share on our national platform and our regional blog – you can write for us , be interviewed by us for a tweet chat or speak at one of our events … There are no barriers to entry – we just want to join up the region and collaborate and form long standing relationships which bring benefits to us all .

This success is down to a few peeps :

John LORIMER – for being a supporter of what we do and believing that we could make a success of a now very strong regional centre

Tom Oulton for tweeting furiously – speaking at events and acting as a CE and BIM ambassador in his role as CIC regional BIM champion

Steph and Will at Addelshaws for supporting and hosting our excellence breakfasts on a monthly basis

Duncan Reed for leading our BIM implementation training and consultancy with construction smes across the uk and for his continued support and dedication to thinkBIM

Thanks to Andrew Arundel for supporting the development and growth of the regional centre .

Last but not least to the regional professional bodies who continue to work closely with us to ensure we avoid clashes and collaborate where possible – thanks to Mark Conner and Simon Owen at CIBSE , Mark Wilson at CIAT and Fiona Evans at CIOB for their active support .

After I gave a round of CEYH activity in the region Kirsty Oldroyd introduced the EU Funding available for training and skills of construction employees within SMEs in the Sheffield City Region – here is the LRF Construction Oview . For more information regarding this funding offer please make direct contact :

For further information:

Kirsty Oldroyd – LRF Programme Manager Ingeus

Koldroyd@ingeus.co.uk

07785 620823

Ian Price – Skills Broker Ingeus / Account Manager Skills Made Easy

Ian.Price@sheffield.gov.uk

T: (0114) 2296183

M: 07827 236805

Showcasing the next generation of construction professionals, the G4C Yorkshire & Humber Awards 2015

25th November 2014 / Liz Schofield / 0 Comments

G4C Yorkshire & Humber are holding the first annual G4C Awards 2015 in Sheffield. These brand new awards aim to showcase excellence and celebrate the achievements of up and coming young construction professionals in the Yorkshire and Humber region and the companies who support and train the future leaders of the industry.

There are 6 categories to compete for, which will be judged by a panel of local industry leaders and experts:

Apprentice of the Year
Student of the Year
Trainee of the Year
New Professional of the Year
Commitment to Employee Development
G4C Award for Young Achiever

The inaugural G4C Awards winners will be presented with their awards at a special ceremony to be held at 6.00pm on Friday 13 February 2015 at the Mercure St Paul’s Hotel in Sheffield city centre.

If you have any queries about any of the above or just want to discuss the awards further, please contact caroline.key@citb.co.uk

Discounted sponsorship opportunities available at our CEYH Awards 2015 preview event

18th November 2014 / Liz Schofield / 0 Comments

Join us as our guest on Wednesday 26th November between 08:00 and 10:00 for an intimate Constructing Excellence breakfast at Addleshaw Goddard LLP, Sovereign House, Sovereign Street, Leeds, LS1 1HQ.

At this event we will be announcing the date for our Constructing Excellence Yorkshire & Humber 2015 awards. We will be outlining discounted sponsorship opportunities as well as looking to recruit our judges. The 2014 awards were a great success and we received fantastic feedback from guests, winners, judges and sponsors. Find out more about last year’s event and regional successes in our 2014 winner’s brochure here.

“It was a splendid event which I very much enjoyed. It was great to see such enthusiastic support for the event” Richard Gibson, Gibson Design Consultancy

“m3 had a really positive experience with our invited customers also enjoying the evening. The format of the awards mixed in with the meal worked really well, allowing us to have a good chat” James Oliver from M3, sponsor of the Innovation Award.

We also have two funding opportunities for construction organisations in the region, which we would like to discuss with you and help you take advantage of free training & consultancy available.

To book your place, please send your details to ckeevents@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

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Future built environment leaders celebrated in inugural #G4Cawards

CDM regulations 2015 – Are you up to speed?

Responding to the #FM challenge in 2015

#CEYHawards officially open for submissions!

Showcasing the next generation of industry talent – G4C Awards 2015

Join us for a #CEYH2015 Asset Excellence breakfast

Lorimer’s Lunch: with Richard Lane, UK BIM Task Group

2014 has been a successful year for CEYH – more to come in 2015 !!

Showcasing the next generation of construction professionals, the G4C Yorkshire & Humber Awards 2015

Discounted sponsorship opportunities available at our CEYH Awards 2015 preview event

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