More than 20 firms including Mace, Morgan Sindall and Mott MacDonald have signed up to the pilot phase of the government’s Value Toolkit, which aims to help clients make decisions based on the overall value that could be delivered by a construction project.
The toolkit, alongside the government’s Construction Playbook, is designed to encourage construction projects to deliver better environmental, social and economic outcomes. The initiative also aim to prompt public sector clients to see beyond the cheapest tender option when evaluating bids for new work.
Construction minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said: “Bringing together knowledge from over 200 experts from across government and industry, this toolkit will make it easier to determine the social and environmental benefits of the decisions made by firms in the construction sector, helping it continue its drive to cut emissions and build back better from the pandemic.”
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Construction Playbook success depends on three things
01 Feb 2021
The arrival of the Construction Playbook is a milestone moment for the industry and its clients in the public sector. But its publication marks the beginning of the journey rather than the endpoint. The document is a roadmap that we must all now follow.
The central messages in the playbook are not new. In fact, they echo many of the learnings from the Egan and Latham reports of the 90s. We ve known what good looks like for a long time and have even come up with plans on how to achieve it. The difference now is we have the ability to realise these improvements.
By Mark Farmer, Trudi Sully2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00
A raft of sector initiatives are now working together to create real change, write Trudi Sully and Mark Farmer
Much of the construction transformation journey that we have been on for the last few years has been focused on identifying the basic building blocks of change and setting out a roadmap for how we can do what the industry has repeatedly failed to do in the past - embrace modernisation and improvement on a large scale and sustainable basis.
The construction sector deal gives us a good springboard for change and identifies the basic themes of core improvement across digital, manufacturing and asset performance while also highlighting the key enablers such as procurement and future skills.