Demonstrating Excellence Report - Constructing Excellence

The Constructing Excellence Demonstration programme has shown that the industrycan deliver better. The theory has been put into practice. We have moved on from justhaving an intuitive feeling that we can deliver better whole-life-value, to the reality ofactually having the evidence.Demonstration projects have shown that the industry can deliver on time, withinbudget, to quality and with fewer defects, and all of this within a framework ofimproved health and safety performance. This fits totally with OGC‘s own AchievingExcellence in Construction Future Strategy agenda – which is delivering the bestbalance of quality and whole-life cost to meet user requirements.John Oughton, Chief Executive, Office of Government CommerceThe Demonstration Programme has been a brilliant initiative for bottom-up innovation in theprocess of construction to provide for the industry‘s client a better quality of product alongsideimproved profitability and safe and healthy practice. It has clearly demonstrated that firms orteams engaged in the programme of best practice also do better and are more profitable.This process needs greater regional emphasis to bring more small and medium-sizedcontractors and design professionals into the process.As Chairman of the Construction Research and Innovation Strategy Panel (nCRISP) I seeConstructing Excellence driving the immediate needs for business, process and productimprovement especially at regional and national level. nCRISPcan then work with ConstructingExcellence in stimulating medium and long-term opportunities for industry collaborative RD&Iand engage in learning from other industries and from overseas practice.Michael Dickson, Chair, nCRISPThe success of the demonstration programme shows how proud people are of theirsuccesses, and how willing they are to share the lessons from these with others. Sadly,too few manufacturers and suppliers initially recognised the important role they had toplay in these projects.How things have changed. The recent publication – Building Success – Lessons fromManufacturers and Suppliers who got it right – highlights ten demonstration projectsfrom across the industry, and there were many more that were only omitted throughlack of space. Not long ago we would have struggled to have three examples submittedfor inclusion in such a publication. The demonstration concept really does work.Michael Ankers, Chief Executive, The Construction Products Association16 Constructing Excellence – Demonstrating Excellence – An Evolution of the Programme of Demonstrations