The Building Podcast
Mark Wakeford is Chairman of the National Federation of Builders, vice-chair at Constructing Excellence Midlands and a Governor at Construction College, Moulton College. He has run a large regional building contractor and now chairs Evoenergy, one of the UK's foremost renewable companies, bringing low carbon solutions to corporate Britain.
Mark talks to leading experts from across the construction sector to discuss issues facing the built environment. He explores various challenges with his guests, who offer solutions, information and ideas that listeners can apply to their own situations, be it in a company, on a project or studying at college.
The Building Podcast aims to provide CPD on the go. Supporting the sector with easily digestible ideas to support a rapidly changing industry!
The Building Podcast
Mark talks to Simon Carter
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Improvements to construction productivity are the Holy Grail of many in our industry. Without these improvements we cannot offer our customers more for less, include additional services or even pay ourselves more, without charging our customers more. With no obvious improvement over the last quarter of a century, yet with significant changes to building methodology, client priorities and specification and a changing regulatory landscape, the time is ripe for a step change in performance.
Simon Carter Heads up Business Improvement for Willmott Dixon, one of the larger UK contractors, with a wide range of skills and experience in almost every UK construction sector. Simon talks about the business culture that has made his four year journey within Willmott such fun and enabled him and his team to deliver significant benefits to projects across the 2,000 people and their supply chains. Simon also talks about the collaboration needed to solve some of the more intractable problems, giving some great anecdotes along the way to show the power of success.
His advice is to work out what is important to you on a particular project and where you do not have the information then focus on these issues. The trick is to make a start in improving the processes and where necessary the training of staff to maximise their inputs. Along the way you are likely to change your business culture to one that is challenging and seeking continuous improvements and collaborating with supply chain partners on an open risk sharing basis. Listen to learn of Willmott Dixon’s focus on improvements, culture and the ways to ensure that you focus on what matters.
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