Demonstrating Excellence Report - Constructing Excellence

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Drumglass High School, County TyroneOctober 1997– August 2000150Team: Building Design Partnership, Mason Solicitors, Southern Education Library Board, H&J Martin, Equity Bank,Martin Facilities ManagementKey success factor:Completed one year ahead of the other PFI projects launched in 1997This project is a showcase for what can be achieved when design drives the resultHow they did it:Materials, finishes, plant and equipment were value engineered to give optimum low-maintenance – long-lifeBuildings were pre-wired for the next generation of IT facilities to be installed under the Classroom 2000 initiative.Principal teacher Derek Wilson said: “It was design-led. That‘s why we‘re a year ahead of the other schools.”Walsall Housing Group - Sustainable Trainingfor Sustainable CommunitiesOngoing1195Team: Walsall Housing Group, Gavin Purchase Construction, SelectWindows, Nationwide Windows, Graham Holmes Astraseal, Wates,Frank Haslam Milan, Superior Plumbing Installations, OctopusElectricalKey success factors:Co-ordinated approach to training and the employment oflocal people.The ability to deliver bespoke training to meet contractingpartners‘ specific needs related to Walsall Housing Group‘smajor works programme and Contractors‘ wider contractualobligations.How they did it:Walsall Housing Group (WHG) have established partnershipswith eight Major Contractors working within the refurbishmentprogrammeAll partners are contracted to ensure they employ local labourand are committed to working with WHG Skills Centre TrainingAgency to recruit and train local people, including non-traditionalentrants to the construction industryContractors all co-ordinate their training and apprenticerecruitment requirements through the Agency12 Constructing Excellence – Demonstrating Excellence – An Evolution of the Programme of Demonstrations
ConclusionsOrganisations involved in the exemplars of thedemonstration programme are taking the lessonslearnt through project and process demonstrationsand implementing them throughout their entirebusiness to improve its performance, productivityand profitability.In 2002, the demonstrations programme recognisedthe incremental learning from projects to themeswithin whole organisations with the production ofthe Waterloo Air Management study on Supply ChainIntegration – The Why, What and How of partneringthe supply chain, Waterloo Air Management,November 2001. Four further detailed case studiesof themed changes within organisations have sincebeen produced and are now published alongsidethis report, as follows:Costain, Building Awareness, The EducationalSupply ChainLovell, Investing for the FutureTaylor Woodrow, Supply Chain Partnering, a casestudy demonstrating the why, what and how ofstrategic partnering in the supply chainWestern Challenge, Partnering in Practice, a casestudy demonstrating the why, what and how ofpartneringThe organisations actively involved in thedemonstrations programme, initially on a projectbasis and then through pan-organisational changeare setting the standard for the rest of the industry toaspire to.1172Great Western Earthwork &Structures Partnering Arrangement(GWESPA)April 2002 – March 2012Team: Network Rail, Alfred McAlpine, TGPKey success factors:Accident frequency rate of zeroTarget efficiencies over 10%How they did it:Ten year partnering arrangement betweenNetwork Rail and Alfred McAlpineA dedicated integrated management team wasset up comprising staff from both organisationson a ‘best person for the job basis‘There was commitment from bothorganisations to operate in a totally open bookmanner, setting up joint systems to shareinformation and best practiceThe avoidance of man markingPlanned works were undertaken on the basisof target costs with appropriate risk registeragreed at design signoff stage (Form B)Actual costs were paid, and all pain or gainmeasured against the target costs are sharedon a 50/50 basisAnnual work banks were instructed from theprogramme office two years in advance toallow the development of designsPerformance was measured againstbenchmarks and KPIs, the success of whichdetermined the value of future work banksInnovation ■ Best Practice ■ Productivity 13
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