The Hub Blog
Value Toolkit: How it can drive behaviour change and create a sustainable model for our industry
“Recovery must be about delivering better, not just more of the same.” This was the clear message from the launch of the Construction Innovation Hub’s Value Toolkit earlier on in the summer - and it's a message that is very close to my heart. As well as working with...
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Diversity and inclusion in construction: The importance of allies
At the end of August, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Women in BIM ‘How to be an effective ally’ webinar. Women in BIM (WiB) – of which I am the Regional Lead for Scotland – is a global online community with a vision to support, empower and celebrate inclusion...
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Value Toolkit: Defining value is the keystone of a transformed construction sector
In the Hub blog last month, Ron Lang, the Hub’s Impact Director for Value, set the scene for what the next few months will look like for our transformative Value Toolkit project. In this article, I am delighted to introduce the first – and perhaps most fundamental -...
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Value Toolkit: Hitting the ground running
Three weeks ago, in a webinar attended by more than 400 people from across our sector, the Construction Innovation Hub formally announced plans to develop a new Value Toolkit. During the webinar, Hub Programme Director Keith Waller – along with industry leaders Ann...
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Building a safer and more sustainable future of construction
Gill Kelleher joined the Construction Innovation Hub as Impact Director for Assurance in June. In her first Hub blog article, Gill tells us what it’s been like taking up her new role in the middle of lockdown and outlines her priorities for the months ahead. It has...
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Beyond construction: where could Platforms take us?
The Hub’s Platform Design Lead, Jaimie Johnston, sets out a vision for the construction industry of the future. The Hub’s programme is the start of a journey that will fundamentally change the sector. But what might an end destination look like, and how will we get...
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NHS Louisa Jordan: The Transformative Power of Digitalisation
In recent months temporary hospitals have been erected at great speed across the UK to help deal with potential Covid-19 patients and have demonstrated remarkable innovation in our construction sector. The Hub's Impact Director for Digital, David Philp, visited the...
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Construction after COVID-19: let’s keep calm and carry on improving
There has been a lot of talk about how COVID-19 will change everything. I don’t think it will. COVID-19 will change some things. We will have to adapt elements of how we live and work, but they will be variations on themes, not fundamental departures from the past. We...
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Putting digitalisation at the heart of the construction sector’s recovery
The Construction Innovation Hub (Hub) was launched in 2018 to drive a transformation in the UK construction sector through manufacturing technologies and digital ways of working that are trusted and secure. As we begin to emerge from the COVID19 crisis, this...
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