BBI Services Newsletter - May 2022

BBI Services Newsletter - May 2022

This month's newsletter features:

 What are the key ingredients to great leadership?  7 lessons Civil Engineers can learn from Toyota’s manufacturing process – Andy Alder & ICE  Cost cutting doesn’t work  Industry news  Collaboration is key to achieving success  Quality Management – how can we help?  News on social media  Events in the diary We accelerate business improvements to make an impact in the Construction sector

What are the ingredients to great leadership?

Being a leader in the construction industry comes with a great deal of responsibility

Whether that’s at project, programme, business unit, or organisational level. Leaders are working with multi-million- pound budgets, hundreds / thousands of employees, and often rigid timeframes. Ultimately, they are accountable for the success and positive outcomes.

Combine this with the ongoing challenges impacting the sector, like climate crisis, building safety, a disruptive supply chain, and the skills demand.

It’s clear a certain set of skills are required to be a successful built environment leader. These leaders can inspire and influence real change, both within an organisation, a JV, or an Alliance, but also on a new project.

 Develop and inspire a shared vision  Model the way  Invest to upskill & grow capability  Challenge the status quo & recognise accomplishments

At BBI, we have collated vast experience from various sectors, as well as construction. With trusted client feedback, we have developed approaches that support leadership teams in building their capabilities and drive real sustainable change. Through practical, supported and coached enhancement plans, we can help to tease out the best of any organisation’s existing talent pools to get real and lasting results. Click HERE to see this full article on our website

7 lessons Civil Engineers can learn from Toyota’s manufacturing process Our CEO, Mark Worrall and Andy Alder , Programme Director at Thames Tideway and Major Projects Vice President at Jacobs, came together to co-author a fantastic blog, released by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)

This blog is a follow up from our most recent Construction to Production masterclass. Held at the Toyota Deeside Engine Plant, the day was attended by several key leaders from the industry. The blog highlights 7 key lessons to be learnt from the motor manufacturing giant and how these can lead to increased productivity.

1. Increase Productivity through standardised work practices 2. Eliminate waste through lean production 3. The value of continuous improvement 4. Building quality into the process 5. Visual Management 6. Engaging the supply chain 7. Leadership and embedding improvements

Read the full blog HERE

For more information about our next masterclass on the 21 st June : https://online.flippingbook.com/view/96253482/

Want to boost your margins? Cost-cutting doesn’t work

Common approaches to cutting costs on construction projects are often counterproductive. Business, even when conducted with the best of intentions, is ultimately about making money. That’s why so many firms up and down the construction supply chain are so fixated on the cost of something, but not the value it brings. Lower costs equal higher margins, which means more profit, and a healthier, more successful business.

Let cost take care of itself At BBI Services, we believe that a totally different approach is required. It’s not about obsessively focusing on cost. It’s about rigorously tackling issues around quality, productivity, value and safety – which, if you solve them, mean that cost will take care of itself. When it comes to thinking about cost, we drive the businesses we work with to not just think about the money they spend up front, but really explore, challenge, and streamline all operations in order to drive waste out and embed value right first time, every time.

If you really want to cut costs, think of productivity, quality and health and safety as a triangle, with cost in the middle. Work to get the tangible three aspects right, and costs will automatically be reduced.

Research has identified that productivity in the construction sector has flatlined for 20 years while other sectors have dramatically improved.

Click HERE to see this full article on our website

Industry News

First affordable carbon negative homes In partnership with British Gas, St. Modwen Homes have launched the first affordable carbon negative homes. The homes are capable of reducing homeowners’ energy bills by 79% and delivering a 125% reduction in CO2 emissions. British Gas will install the trial homes with the latest Hive Smart Home technology, to aid the energy efficiency of these properties. To find out more click HERE

Industry bodies to draw up standard for verifying net zero buildings A standard for verifying buildings as net zero carbon is currently being developed by a group of industry bodies including RIBA and the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC).

March construction output reaches record heights with 1.7% increase

According to the Office of National Statistics, March was the fifth consecutive monthly growth and a record high. As well as the monthly increase, construction output rose 3.8% in Quarter 1 2022. Outside of the coronavirus pandemic period, this is the strongest Quarterly growth since Quarter 1 2107 (3.9%). To read more click HERE

The UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard is to be a single agreed methodology that will allow developers, architects and building occupiers to prove that the building is net zero. To read the full article click HERE

Quality Management – how can we help?

Quality defects continue to occur throughout projects, and there is a key factor contributing to these – poor quality management. This is backed up by GIRI’s research in identifying the top ten roots causes of error – poor culture in relation to quality. Construction errors cost the UK Construction Industry billons of pounds each year.

Source: Get It Right Initiative – Improving value by eliminating error

Poor quality management ultimately results in the need for reworks to correct the errors made. Whilst these costs the construction industry billions of pounds, and delays project lead times, it also puts construction workers in danger . In Australia, 39% of all injuries on construction projects are down to quality issues. Analysis of quality and safety >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10

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