A new feature has been added to YellowJacket, the construction industry health & safety tool, to help measure productivity. YellowJacket’s new lean construction feature enables users to track time spent on non-value-added activities, the number of people involved and the amount of time lost on site for each process issue.
The RIBA is pleased to announce that Adrian Dobson, currently RIBA Director of Practice, has been appointed RIBA Executive Director Members. In this newly created role, from 1 July 2015 Adrian Dobson will lead all of the RIBA’s member-facing work on behalf of the Institute’s 40,000 members. Speaking today, RIBA
The Builders’ Conference Trade Association has reported steady progress for the construction industry for the last month, a continuation of the previous month’s figures. The group’s Contracts League table for May this year collaborated data on nearly 700 new contract awards with a combined value of just under £4 billion
Statoil has warned that the bid to replace coal with low carbon energy sources could be jeopardised by geopolitical tensions. The Norweigan group, who is the second largest natural gas producer in Europe behind Russian firm Gazprom, also highlighted the Brexit vote as one of the examples of threats to
A new feature has been added to YellowJacket, the construction industry health & safety tool, to help measure productivity. YellowJacket’s new lean construction feature enables users to track time spent on non-value-added activities, the number of people involved and the amount of time lost on site for each process issue. Data captured will be displayed in visual reports including heat maps, graphs and timelines, letting users know how projects are performing. By collecting this performance data users can start to identify and target areas where improvements can be made. YellowJacket is a software application from the Building Research Establishment (BRE). YellowJacket director Crawford Burns said: “Improving productivity and reducing costs and delivery time are key tenets of the Governments Construction 2025 strategy which sets out a plan to deliver a 33% reduction in construction project costs and a 50% reduction in overall project delivery time. Our aim is to help our customers who are already gathering data on health & safety to start measuring their processes in line with lean and ultimately improve productivity.” The new feature is free to access for all current YellowJacket users. This article was published on 28 Jun 2016 (last updated on 28 Jun 2016). Source link
The RIBA is pleased to announce that Adrian Dobson, currently RIBA Director of Practice, has been appointed RIBA Executive Director Members. In this newly created role, from 1 July 2015 Adrian Dobson will lead all of the RIBA’s member-facing work on behalf of the Institute’s 40,000 members. Speaking today, RIBA Chief Executive Harry Rich said: ‘I am thrilled to announce Adrian’s appointment. As well as his very wide range of experience gained in practice, in teaching and at the RIBA, Adrian knows our members, the profession and our organisation really well and will therefore get off to a flying start.’ ‘This new role will allow us to serve our members in the UK and around the world even better. It represents a renewed and strengthened commitment to our work in the regions and nations of the UK and to our core membership, practice, education, client and international activities.’ Speaking today, Adrian Dobson said: ‘I am delighted to join the RIBA senior executive team led by Harry Rich and look forward to building upon my experience in practice and at the RIBA to develop the Institute’s services for members. ‘The opportunity to work with the community of architects to help shape an RIBA and a new professionalism attuned to the times, as the profession faces new challenges in response to significant societal, economic and technological change, is a unique privilege and an exciting prospect for me.’ ENDS Notes to editors: 1. For further press information contact the RIBA Press Office: 020 7307 3662 pressoffice@riba.org 2. Adrian Dobson is a Chartered Architect and current RIBA Director of Practice. Adrian studied architecture at the University of Manchester. His architectural practice experience has been focussed primarily in the education and community sectors. He has taught in higher education and carried out research in advanced CAD and BIM. Adrian has served as a regionally-elected RIBA Council Member. He is the author of 21 Things You Won’t Learn in Architecture School. 3. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) champions better buildings, communities and the environment through architecture and our members www.architecture.com Follow us on Twitter for regular RIBA updates www.twitter.com/RIBA Posted on Friday 15th May 2015 Source link
The Builders’ Conference Trade Association has reported steady progress for the construction industry for the last month, a continuation of the previous month’s figures. The group’s Contracts League table for May this year collaborated data on nearly 700 new contract awards with a combined value of just under £4 billion won by almost 400 contractors, a figure that maintains the norm after the recession. However, if we look at the data in more detail it is now clear that the industry is in a holding pattern as it is now usual for each of the top 10 firms in the Contracts League table to top the £100 million mark in the award of new contracts every month. Although in May only the top seven companies in the table passed that figure. Laing O’Rourke claimed top spot, while Galliford Try came in second, with a combined 28 contracts between them. This relatively big amount of modestly valued contracts throws into some relief the absence of major landmark contracts in the current environment. In terms of work being put out to tender, the statistics show a £4.5 billion fall on the monthly average from May 2015 to just £1.8 billion this year. This has had a sizeable impact on the Contracts League table for the yearly rolling total, as the figure has decreased from the high of £56.6 billion at the end of December last year to £50.41 billion last month, which is a fall of more than 12%. Despite this general trend, Laing O’Rourke emerged as the most successful contractor in last month’s table as the firm secured no fewer than nine contracts worth £207.7 million between them. Among the nine contracts, one of the most crucial was the £76.2 million contract to construct a new 192 unit residential tower for London’s Imperial College in the White City Campus in North London.
Statoil has warned that the bid to replace coal with low carbon energy sources could be jeopardised by geopolitical tensions. The Norweigan group, who is the second largest natural gas producer in Europe behind Russian firm Gazprom, also highlighted the Brexit vote as one of the examples of threats to international co-operation. The firm argued that countries may now place a bigger focus on energy security instead of tackling climate change because of this shift to a more volative multipolar world. Statoil chief economist, Eirik Waerness, believes that a future of growing protectionism and regular political crises will make it more difficult to achieve global cohesion on the issue of carbon emission reductions. Statoil laid out three scenarios in its yearly long term outlook, of which this was one, while the other two made more optimistic forecasts about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While the group did not state which scenario is most likely to happen, Mr Waerness did say during Wednesday’s briefing that the UK’s forthcoming exit of the European Union is the kind of event that ties into its most pessimistic outlook. The report stated that a period of raised geopolitical rivalry would result in ‘growing disagreement about ‘the game rules’ and a lesser ability to manage environmental, economic and political crises. If this scenario were to come to fruition, the reduction of carbon emission would be considered a low priority and agreements made on climate change, such as the one in Paris last year, would only be partly implemented. Also featured in the synopsis was a weakening of international institutions (World Trade Organisation, Nato and UN), an economically stagnant Europe and a more isolated US. In this geopolitical landscape, it is forecast that carbon emission would go up by 18% by 2040 and would continue to climb beyond this period, as predicted by Statoil.
