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Innovation

The construction industry. Innovation. Construction Innovation: A Revolution: UK Prospective. Prof. Nash Dawood Centre for Construction Innovation Research. University of Teesside. London. Lecture Content. What is innovation? A brief introduction to the UK industry.

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Innovation

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  1. The construction industry Innovation

  2. Construction Innovation: A Revolution: UK Prospective Prof. Nash Dawood Centre for Construction Innovation Research

  3. University of Teesside London

  4. Lecture Content • What is innovation? • A brief introduction to the UK industry. • Construction industry traditional business processes. • Problems with the traditional processes. • Process re-engineering and application of IT. • UK Government Initiatives • Finally: The Teesside contribution.

  5. Innovation • Bring in novelties. • Finding faster and cheaper ways of doing the same thing. • Doing something differently or use entirely different materials.

  6. The UK Construction Industry • Around £60 Billion/year turnover. • Employ 1.4 Million People. • Highly influenced by the general economy (Boom and Bust), weather, etc and therefore quite risky business. • Very difficult work condition • Significant impact on the environment

  7. The UK Construction Industry • Public Perception is often: • One of Lazy, shovel-learning, • Cheating Cowboys who bodge, rather than build. • In reality, the vast of construction activities is carried out by professional to the highest standard.

  8. Architect and professional advisors Contractor seek bid Client Prep. of design and tender document Appraise of Tender Interim payment Construct works Place order Final payment Traditional Construction processes Tender

  9. What are the Problems • Adversarial and Fragmented processes. • Very little time spent on design development. • Minimum communications and interactions between the construction team. • High out-turn compared to initial cost. • Poor site construction planning.

  10. UK Proposed Annual Targets Accident Defects Predictability Productivity Construction time Profit & Turnover Capital Increase Reduce 20% 10% 10% 20% Source: M4I

  11. The Construction Revolution • Modernisation. • Client Satisfaction. • Team work. • Innovative processes, • products and tools. • Whole life cycle • approach.

  12. The Innovation • Processes re-engineering and bench-marking (using Lean Thinking Philosophy) • Information Technology as enabling tools for processes improvements. • Products developments. • Safer and well planned construction sites • More environmentally friendly sites

  13. Standard products and components Application Software Information Infrastructure Product Model Integrated Construction Team Processes re-engineering Design and Product Development Costing Teaming with the supply chain Implementation (site activities) Maintenance

  14. Range of options Time Range of options Time Comparisons of traditional and proposed processes Client-Arch-Stru.-Env.-Others Conventional Processing Parallel processing

  15. Advantages new processes: satisfying clients needs • What are their needs? • Projects delivered, • More reliably, • To higher quality, • Fully meeting their functional requirements, • Engagement - through enhanced, understanding, • Influence - through meaningful interaction.

  16. Reduce time from “order” to “delivery” Advantages of new processes: Time Compresion • Replace Sequential Processing by Interactive Concurrent Processing. • Enable application of principles of concurrent engineering. • Improve planning of construction site procedures.

  17. UK Government Research Initiatives • Getting industry and academia to work together (50% contribution from Industry) • Construction as Manufacturing Process (CMP Initiative) • Partners in Innovation (PII) • Meeting Client needs through Standardisation (MCNS) • Responsive mode (100% Government)

  18. The Teesside Contribution • The Virtual Construction Site: A Strategic Construction Planning (VIRCON). • Re-engineering Work-face information • Development of Intelligent VR systems for facilitating Outline design • International Network on VR Applied to Construction Process and Products (NET-VR) • Standardisation of brickwork construction

  19. Research Projects can be found on the university web site: • Http\\www.tees.ac.uk\research\ • Click: environment or civil engineering

  20. Conclusions • In order to be a world class player, the UK construction industry needs to change. The revolution is happening. • Process innovation is the key to any technological development. • Development and use of standard products and processes.

  21. Conclusions • IT revolution is here to stay and the construction industry should capitalize on its benefits • Teesside is playing a major role in advancing the construction revolution and contributing to the wealth creation in the UK.

  22. This concludes the presentation Thanks YOU

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