| Wednesday 6th March 2002 |
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| 15:30 | Registration |
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| 16:00 |
Introduction & Progress Report |
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| Prof. Tim Broyd, Chairman of Construct IT | ||||
| Prof. Marjan Sarshar, Director Construct IT | ||||
| 16:15 |
New Methods of Working: A Client’s Perspective |
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| Deryk Eke - Director of Construction, Office of Government Commerce | ||||
| OGC is the largest client within the UK industry, acting as hub for the
major spending agencies within government. Deryk discussed collaborative
working, providing an ideal mechanism for delivering prime contracting and
best value. He also presented OGC’s support for the establishment of training
programmes, new methods of working, and commercial arrangements that support
the new ways of working. |
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| 17:00 | Collaborative Commerce | |||
| David
Flint, Gartner Group |
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| Using
Gartner Group’s vision of the future (the Net Liberated Organisation) as
a framework, David presented some ideas, and cases, of collaborative commerce
drawn from other industries. |
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| 18:00 | Tea and Coffee | |||
| 18:15 | BAA’s Experience in Framework Partnerships | |
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| Owen Inglis Humphrey, BAA | ||||
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Owen presented the lessons learnt from BAA’s 1st generation agreements and
then discussed the 2nd generation framework agreements. He also discussed
performance measurement and process compliance, the benefits from the
use of technology, and finally future developments. |
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| 19:00 | Close | |||
| 19:45 | Dinner | |||
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Thursday 7th March 2002 2nd Morning |
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| 09:30 | CEO Views | |
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| Vaughan Burnand, CEO Shepherd
Construction |
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| Vaughan presented supply chain
management from a CEO’s perspective. He discussed the benefits, together
with the challenges, that face the industry in improving collaboration and
integration along the supply chain. |
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| 10:00 | Practical Experiences of Integrating the Steel Supply Chain | |
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| Richard
McWilliams, Whitby Bird & Partners |
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Whitby Bird & Partners have been exchanging 3D steelwork models with Severfield-Rowen for more than five years. Richard reviewed the teams’ capabilities, giving a practical view on the experiences gained over time, including an outline of the 'next phase' of integration - including the incorporation of more detailed information, cross platform working and closer working with Corus. |
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| 10:45 | Introduction to Parallel Sessions | |||
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will be a five-minute introduction to each parallel session. |
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| 11:00 | Coffee | |||
| 11:30– 13:00 Parallel Sessions | ||||
| 11:30 | Session One: MOPMIT - More Productive Minor Construction through IT | |
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WS Atkins Lloyds TSB Group plc Whitbread plc University of Salford |
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| The MOPMIT is a research project being driven by a group of major clients, which concerns the myriad of small construction projects that make up well over 50% of construction activity in the UK. The project aims to demonstrate how simple and inexpensive IT and communications tools can lead to greatly enhanced effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of minor construction projects. | ||||
| 11:30 | Session Two: Managing Project Information - A Case Study |
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| Steve Pittard, Elstree Computing Ltd. | ||||
| Steve presented a system currently
in use on a major construction project and demonstrated how technology
can be employed to control project information and associated procedures. |
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| 11:30 | Session Three: ProCure - ICT at Work for the LSE Procurement Chain/eConstruct | |||
| David Leonard, Taylor Woodrow |
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| Jeff Stephens, Taylor Woodrow |
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| Colin Harper, Corus Group plc |
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| Dr. Lisl Klien, Bayswater Institute |
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ProCure is a EU funded project
whose goal is to take a significant but achievable step forward in the
application of available ICT to the Large Scale Engineering (LSE) construction
industry. e-Construct
is another EU funded project to build faster, cheaper and better, by developing,
demonstrating and disseminating a new Communication Technology that will
better support the needs of the European Building and Construction industry. This session discussed the successes and challenges of these projects. |
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| 13:00 – 14:15
Lunch |
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| 2nd Afternoon | ||||
| 14:15 | Feedback from each parallel session | |||
| There will be a short review of the parallel sessions. | ||||
| 14:30 | Automated Building Code Checking in Singapore | |
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| Jeffrey Wix, AEC3 Ltd. |
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| Jeff presented the ePlansChecking
system prototype that automates the checking of submitted plans against
building regulations. The ePlansChecking system is a key component of the
Construction and Real Estate Network (CORENET) programme - a major investment
in developing and applying advanced information technologies within the
Singapore building construction industry. The presentation included an outline
of the development of the system together with a demonstration of the prototype
system in action. |
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| 15:15 | Interactive Solutions for Construction | |||
| Andy Ling, Associate Director, WSP
Virtual Solution |
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| Andy’s presentation explored interactive media applications for Communications, Project Programming, Operations & Maintenance and Fee Proposals. | ||||
| 15:45 | Supply Chain Collaborative Working - The Key Principles | |
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| Dr Neil Jarrett, Warwick University |
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| Warwick University have been
working to transfer manufacturing practices for collaborative working to
construction. The principles
and processes are still poorly understood and therefore not well applied.
Neil presented the key principles through several case studies of what tends
to go well and what goes badly in construction. The key principles include
supplier selection, appointment and management for long-term relations,
integrated design, planning and costing, performance measurement and continuous
improvement, and managing change. |
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| 16:15 | Special Interest Groups | |||
| Sum up and discussion Prof. Tim Broyd, Chairman of Construct IT | ||||