Productivity in construction is a new focus of the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology at Cambridge according to its 2020-2023 review.
A new guide providing practical advice for boosting productivity across the infrastructure lifecycle, has been published by the ICE.
Building small modular nuclear reactors within pop up factories could make the construction of nuclear power capacity faster.
As a student studying geotechnics, I used to joke about needing to attach things to magic “sky hooks” in order to solve some slope stability challenges or to undertake the temporary works stages of schemes I had been tasked to design. No help in that form was coming though, so…
All civil engineers and economists learn a simple lesson as undergraduates: investing in infrastructure is key when it comes to improving productivity.
The ICE has just published its latest annual State of the Nation report. The report is now firmly pitched at the action engineers should take rather than telling government what is needed – and this year the action needed goes well beyond just reading it.
Three key ways to boost productivity in infrastructure have been identified by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
When the Infrastructure & Project Authority’s Transforming Infrastructure Performance (TIP) initiative was first launched in 2017, it was all about productivity to deliver £15bn of savings each year. But as government capital expenditure has ramped up, the homework question has become: how could the nation get more for less?
Construction projects are highly complex undertakings and the success of a project is determined by thousands of interconnected decisions made every day, at every level, across multiple organisations. Each of those decisions has the potential to add inefficiency and risk, which can inevitably lead to additional project costs and delays…
Improving productivity and efficiency in construction has been a long standing target for the construction industry. But can we really have it all? The industry is also being called on to deliver projects faster, for better value and with improved outcomes – are we just asking too much? Comparisons between…
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