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If reducing usage and waste along with increased recycling can lead the way, then the unit cost of the solvent becomes less and less relevant..

At core, the Construction Innovation Hub is a consortium of three organisations:.The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), focused on the manufacturing and process element of the work..

The Building Research Establishment (BRE), dealing with the quality and assurance aspects..The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), handling information management and the need for data in order to foster learning in everything we do, and to do things in a more efficient and effective way..The opportunity for this sort of package was recognized in the 2017 Industrial Strategy.

This was a significant step because the problems facing construction are long-standing and well known.During the last few decades, while other large industries have gone through transformational levels of change, the construction industry has remained relatively static.

Following on from the Latham and Egan reports in the 1990s, in 2016 the Farmer Report concluded that the industry must “modernise or die.”.

Sully says that the key element we’ve been missing in construction is the ethos of collaboration and innovation found in other industries.And key to their success is that everyone on these teams, no matter how big or small their role, has a fundamental understanding of and input into the aims and vision of the project.. Of course, emerging from more specialised disciplines means that it can take some time for people to feel comfortable collaborating on a deep level.

In a good Design to Value system, everybody’s contribution is valuable, no matter what their role.Leadership and facilitation here are key.

In Design to Value, all elements of the project stay in play.Collaborative teams question the value drivers as they go along and they even question the problem statement.