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It is the representative Forum for the Industry’s professional institutions, consulting associations, clients’ forums, research organisations and standard setting specialist trade bodies.
The
Council’s Programme of Work is extremely diverse, covering a wide spectrum of political, practice, research, education, professional development and environmental issues.
Partnering Task Force : One of our Senior Associates has joined the CIC’s Partnering Task Force.
The aim of this Task Force is to produce practical guidance on Partnering for dissemination via the CIC to its Members.
Housing Forum
- MacConvilles are ‘Open’ members of the Housing Forum and one of our Directors is a member of the Key Performance Indicator Work Group of the Housing Forum.
- MacConvilles have encouraged and assisted their Clients to submit Demonstration Projects for approval to the Housing Forum and M4I.
- MacConvilles currently have three Demonstration Projects on site.
- MacConvilles have actively brought forward innovations to be tried and tested on Demonstration Projects.
- We are fully conversant with the CBPP Benchmark Key Performance Indicators and have all the requisite software. As a member of the Housing Forum, we have signed up to the Benchmarking Charter.
- We wholeheartedly support the introduction of Housing Quality Indicators (HQI’s) as the first “quality” based Indicators ever to be produced for housing.
Partnering
- MacConvilles are offering strategic advice on Partnering and have entered into a number of Partnering arrangements with Clients. We run Partnering workshops on specific projects for the supply chain. The number of supply chain participants is widening as opportunities for co-operation increase.
Whole Life Performance
- MacConvilles are members of a “Whole Life Costing Forum.
Whole Life Costing is central to the issue of Sustainable Development and is gaining in importance.
MacConvilles have been instrumental in bringing the work of the Forum to the attention of the industry bodies. MacConvilles’ philosophy and approach to Environmental Impact and Sustainable Development is described elsewhere on this web site.
Innovative Construction Systems and Techniques (Lean Construction)
- MacConvilles are currently working with a number of Developers/Contractors and material suppliers on innovative construction systems and techniques being developed inside the UK and on mainland Europe.
International Alliance of Interoperability
- Latham, Egan and a number of other progressive thinkers in the Construction Industry have highlighted the separation of the design and construction processes as being nonsensical, wasteful and counter-productive.
The integration of design and construction processes will require high levels of software interoperability between members of the team. Single project databases and partnering arrangements reinforce the importance of interoperability.
MacConvilles have a senior member of their team represented on the IAI.
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