May Overview – Amrit Sagoo
Constructing excellence continues to play a pivotal role in reshaping the future of the construction industry by showcasing best practices and collaboration across the industry. Over the last few months each of the local clubs supported by theme groups have started to gather sense checks of any bottlenecks and problems encountered by its members and firms operating in various domains.
This has greatly assisted with development of bespoke CPD events (including workshops/seminars/podcasts/guidance notes) within each region in sharing knowledge, skills and behaviours where the speakers have walked-through-project successes adopting a collaborative approaches. These events heavily rely on creating transparency to foster confidence and trust in CE activities which is enhanced by member engagement and acting on member feedback.
It is evident that the landscape is changing in the sector at a far faster rate than previously thought. In these tough times where costs going up, clients and legislations require innovative solutions, as well as the usual challenges of Economic, Effective and Efficient project delivery; to survive organisations will continue to keep a sharp eye on cash flow to balance the books.
In addition, the industry is also facing increased pressures to adopt green practices (sustainable and retrofit technologies, skill shortages, diversity and social values). In order to stay ahead of the competitors every organisation needs to embrace new non-traditional approaches, changing legislations, the Golden Thread and the Moral Compass.
In summary, there is lots happening within the regions, if we are to remain head of the game, I invite and encourage everyone to take maximum advantage of the best practice series by getting involved in various theme groups and local clubs.
