| Thursday 26th November 2009 |
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| 8:45 |
Registration |
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| 9:15 |
Welcome,
Introduction & Progress Report
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Peter
Rebbeck, Chair of Construct IT
Prof.
Farzad Khosrowshahi, Director of Construct IT
Dr.
Jason Underwood, Manager of Construct IT |
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| 9:25 |
Keynote:
More for Less ... Year on Year
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Andrew
Gay, veteran chief executive
and chairman of major businesses |
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Andrew is a veteran
chief executive and chairman of major businesses including CIO at The
Ministry of Justice, and Chairman of Drake & Scull (now Emcor UK)
and Warings. He is a passionate speaker on IT project management and long-term
infrastructure planning and implementation.
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| 9:45 |
IT
Investment in the Current Challenging Economic Conditions |
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Ken
France, The Knowledge Practice |
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Ken
set the scene for the day by providing an insight into the UK construction
sector and the issues that organisations working in the industry are currently
having to address in order to extract greatest value from their IT resources
and investments, while dealing with the current extremely challenging
economic conditions where budgets are under threat.
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| 10:30 |
IT
Delivering Value for Money: A Contractor Organisation's Perspective |
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Bill
Price, Costain |
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the current recession there is enormous pressure to reduce company overheads.
IT is one of the largest overheads and is a prime target for reductions.
Bill provided a contactor's perspective of How do you best match the services
IT offer with the business need and to deliver a best value for money offering
along with How do you also innovate during the downturn to add value. |
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| 11:15 |
Refreshments
& Networking |
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| 11:45 |
The
Adoption of BIM and Lean Process |
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Colin
Usher & Paul Coates, John McCall Architects |
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Colin & Paul will discuss their current focus of looking at new 'Lean'
and innovative methods of operation. By developing their processes in
line with Lean principles benefits have been gained by JMA, stakeholders
and partners in the construction process. Central to the developments
so far has been the adoption of improved data handling methods, utilization
of database functionality and the adoption of BIM. The improvements adopted
at JMA and the methods used to analysis and substantiate the changes that
have taken place will be presented.
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| 12:30
- 13:30 Lunch |
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| 13:30 |
Futures
of Construction IT |
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Carl
Abbott, University of Salford and Dr Bilge Erdogan, Heriot-Watt University |
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The
futures of Construction IT was explored by Carl and Bilge in respect of
the driving forces of change and main trends, issues, factors and actors
and in relation to society, technology, environment, economy and politics.
This was presented through four scenarios that were developed using 'economic
model' and 'environment and resource management' as scenario axes.
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| 14:15 |
Facilitating
Construction Site Resource Logistics Through Linked RFID Tagging |
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Matthew
Preston, Byrne Group plc |
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Group plc is one of the UK's fastest growing construction companies and
one of the first in the industry to establish a consolidation centre. The
seven-acre facility in London serves as a hub to provide plant, materials,
warehouse and distribution facilities to most of its construction sites.
Matthew discussed the introduction of a new web-based asset management technology
linked to RFID tagging to support these processes. |
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| 15:00 |
Refreshments
& Networking |
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| 15:30 |
Strategic
IT Investments & Directions Beyond the Construction Sector |
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Michael
Dean, National Computing Centre |
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provided a perspective across other sectors of some of the key strategic
issues that are being faced by IT decision-makers, and the ways that those
issues are being addressed. In particular, the focus was on the strategic
developments, applications and technologies that IT user organisations are
investing in over the next two years and the impact of the current economic
climate. |
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| 16:15 |
Facilitated Panel Session: The Challenges and Opportunities of ICT Investment & Strategy in the Economic Downturn |
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Chair:
Andrew Gay
Panel:
Ken
France, The Knowledge Practice
Bill
Price, Costain
Matthew
Preston, Byrne Group plc
Michael
Dean, National Computing Centre |
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day concluded with a facilitated panel session chaired by Andrew Gay which
provided the opportunity for delegates to further explore and debate with
the panel of presenters including Ken France, Bill Price, Matthew Preston,
and Michael Dean, issues raised throughout the day. |
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| 17:15 |
Summary and Close |
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