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National Grid Enterprise Model to foster collaboration

Construction Law

National Grid is to use a new model of supply chain cooperation for its £9 billion Great Grid Upgrade, a nationally significant investment in the electricity network in alliance with seven major contractors and consultants.

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Consultant predicts a post-coronavirus 'construction tsunami'

Construction Dive

Contractors should look to predictive models to help plan for getting back to work after the COVID-19 crisis abates, which could be in just over a month, according to a presenter at a recent DBIA webinar.

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DebunkTheBIM: The clandestine practice of consultants modelling.

DebunkTheBIM

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Wednesday, January 11, 2012. The clandestine practice of consultants modelling for tender documentation. Then, a slight shift happened.

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Firms put on alert for £4.5bn Northumbrian Water AMP8 deal

Construction Enquirer

Northumbrian Water is calling up contractors to help shape its procurement plans ahead of launching a £4.5bn AMP8 procurement race in the Autumn. This will see it shift to an embedded client collaboration model, based on an ‘enterprise’ approach involving shared a vision and values with contractors and joint incentivisation.

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Commercial Construction Trends: Why More Clients Are Choosing the Design-Assist Model

HardHatChat

Working with a client on a design-assist or design-build basis, as Englewood Construction is with the reimagining of Stratford Square Mall, allows the commercial contractor to provide valuable input during the initial planning stages. Design-assist is a bit of a hybrid of the design-build process.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Ben Fiedler, Staff Consultant at Benchmark, Inc.

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Ben Fiedler , Staff Consultant at Benchmark Inc., And as a roof consultant, Ben knows that technological innovation and capturing meaningful data are imperative to efficiency and quick decision making in the field. We’re roof and pavement consultants. We are not architects or engineers and we’re not contractors.

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Up to 100 jobs at risk at M&E firm Integral UK

Construction Enquirer

M&E specialist contractor Integral UK is to stop working for main contractors in a strategic move to focus efforts on working directly for clients. The firm has committed to complete all existing jobs for main contractors around the country, helping to soften the impact on staff.

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