Constructing Excellence South West SW Peninsula Roadshow
Exeter, Plymouth & Truro
Thursday/Friday 20th/21st November 2014
Andrew Carpenter
Chief Executive
Constructing Excellence South West
• The story so far
• Clubs’ Update
• Forums’ Update
• Regional Conferences’ Update
• CESW/CIOB Built Environment Awards
• Newsletter/Web Site Update
• CESW Academy/Consultants Update
• Interesting activities
• Future Events
• Future Priorities
• 2025 Construction Strategy
• Skills Shortages
• BIM
Agenda
• High level Board of ten in place withy confirmation of two more expected
• Steering Committee taking shape
• LEP’s participating (6)
• Cornwall & Isles of Scilly has involved us in the writing & now delivery of their strategy
• Wiltshire has asked to view the Cornwall strategy and we are due to meet with them on 18th December
• Dorset meeting arranged for 3rd December to discuss our involvement
• Heart of the South West CEO present here today and relationship is building (mainly around Hinkley Point)
• West of England LEP asked me to present to their construction team in July 2014
• Gloucestershire LEP only recently contacted
• National Members (6)
• Igloo Regeneration, Environment Agency, Burgess Salmon, Magnox & Structural Timber Association all engaged
• Nationwide about to engage
The Story so far
• Universities (6)
• Bristol, UWE, Plymouth & Bath all engaged
• Exeter & Cornwall about to engage
• Poole & Bournemouth and Weymouth & Portland Colleges suggested also
• Any others?
• Industry Bodies (9)
• RIBA, CIOB, CITB, CIC, RICS, LABC, HCA, ICE & Genesis Centre all engaged
• HSE awaiting confirmation
• Supply Chain (12)
• RLB, Aquarian, Trowers & Hamlin, Devon CC, Keystone Law, Lucas Fettes, RPR-CMS, ADP Architects, CMS Group, Cube Design, BAM and Turner & Townsend all engaged with others being added all the time
The Story so far
• Robert Knight, Igloo Regeneration & CCG – Chairman
• David Renwick, Ocean Housing – Vice Chairman
• Rob Benson, Midas Group – Treasurer
• Andrew Goodenough, Bristol Airport
• David Snell, Kier Construction
• John Boughton, Willmott Dixon
• Shane Paull, McCarthy & Stone
• Bill Button, NVB Architects
• Neil Stevens, SMTS
• Stephen Homer, Ashfords LLP
• Awaiting confirmation from John Gallagher, Magnox & G4C
• Replacement for Damian Leydon, EDF-Energy to be announced
Board Update
• Bristol – Active as ever
• Cornwall – Best Practice Case Study from Simon Caklais
• Devon & Exeter – Re-established in January and finding its feet
• Dorset – Re-established in May with a nucleus of keen supporters & three successful events
• Gloucester – New management team in place
• Plymouth – Management team have got a ‘second wind’ so watch out in 2015!
• Swindon & Wiltshire – Re-established in April with a nucleus of keen supporters
• Other
• New Hinkley Point (Somerset) Club about to be launched in early 2015
• National Representative – Jeremy Dunn, Ward Williams of Cornwall Club recently volunteered
Clubs’ Update
• CCGSW – Excellent feedback from two meetings to date – next one planned for 24th February 2015
• Procurement – Presentation from Martyn Jones to follow
• G4CSW – Hugely successful launch in Bristol in July and now looking to extend around the region
• BIM4Housing – Launched in January we are in the middle of a series of six conferences being held around the UK
• New Forums
• Marcoms – Scoping meeting planned for 11th December
• Lean/Logistics – First meeting planned for January 2015
Forums’ Update
• Bristol April 2014 (100+ people – good as ever!)
• Wiltshire April 2014 (38 people with excellent feedback)
• Dorset May 2014 (24 people with excellent feedback)
• Devon & Somerset 2014 (65 people with excellent feedback)
• Cornwall (80 people with a waiting list!)
• Gloucestershire (24 people with excellent feedback)
• Conferences for 2015 already being planned
Regional Conference Update
• 13th June 2014
• Record sponsorship
• Record entries
• Record attendance
• 2014
• Friday 12th June 2015
• Marriott City Centre Bristol Hotel
• Please consider putting yourselves forward
CESW/CIOB SW Built Environment Awards Update
• Web Site very well received………………….but
• Not all have provided necessary information/photo
• Very few members maximising its potential i.e. CV’s
• Newsletter
• First one issued late July
• Intention to issue every four – six weeks depending on news/information requirements
• More stories welcome (poor response so far from most people)
Web Site/Newsletter Update
• CESW Academy
• First short course originally planned for October/November 2014 now delayed until early 2015
• Good initial interest
• Turning interest into bookings has been difficult
• Content needed to be more tailored
• Consultants Team
• Excellent team of eight built up
• All prepared to offer commission
• 20% if we present an opportunity to them
• 10% if they get business direct from our web site
• Good potential income stream for CESW
• One project already carried out with four more in the pipeline
CESW Academy/Consultants Update
• The Hive – presentation by Dr Eve Walkden to follow shortly
• Built Intelligence – presentation from Chris Corr to follow shortly
• Case Studies – Aquarian Cladding first example
Interesting Activities
Contents
• The Background
• Exploitation of the Building Research Park
• Facilities
• The future
The Balehaus (2009)
The Hempod (2010)
The Chancellors’ Building
Opportunity
• Archive store at the Science Museum, Wroughton
Key Facilities
• The HIVE
• 16 experimental ‘pods’
• Opportunity for long term
• exposure tests on materials
• Planning all pre-approved
• ‘Plug and play’ facility • Utilities • Data loggers • Supervision • Maintenance
Summary • Entire panels and connections
• Air tightness, Weather resistance, Thermal efficiency, Acoustic efficiency, Hygrothermal performance, Double skin façades
• Novel Construction materials • Buildability, FRP durability, Fabric Formed Concrete, Composite panels, Monitoring
Technology • Intelligent monitoring, training software models
• Environmental performance • Validating wind tunnel tests, evaluating Passiv Haus construction techniques, Flood
resistance, Wind load resistance
• Technical support for industry • Testing, Evaluation, Demonstration, Full scale trials
• Wednesday 3rd December Dorset Club BIM Conference – RNLI, Poole
• Thursday 11th December Marcoms Forum Meeting – Ashfords, Exeter
• Tuesday 16th December CESW Board Meeting – Bristol Airport
• Thursday 18th December CESW/Swindon & Wiltshire LEP Construction Strategy Scoping Meeting – Chippenham
• Full programme for 2015 to be announced shortly
Future Events
• 2025 Construction Strategy (Peter Hansford has enlarged on this)
• Skills Shortages
• BIM (Peter Vale has enlarged on this)
• A little less conversation a little more action please! – our strapline for 2015
• Others?
Future Priorities
Carpe Diem: Andrew Carpenter, Chief Executive, CESW
2014
Thought for the day:
The opportunity of a lifetime has to
be grasped in the lifetime of the
opportunity
Rethinking Construction