CPA: Construction industry encouraged to use key CIC document to overcome barriers to integration

CPA: Construction industry encouraged to use key CIC document to overcome barriers to integration

CPA: Construction industry encouraged to use key CIC document to overcome barriers to integration

14 December 2007

PRESS RELEASE

Construction industry encouraged to use key CIC document to overcome barriers to integration

“Selecting the Team”, a key document produced by the CIC partnering task force, has been cited as a vital tool in the work to overcome barriers to integration.

A recent report from the Chairman of the Integration Task Group, Martin Nielsen (Commercial Director of Scott Wilson) to the Strategic Forum for Construction encouraged a wider use of the guide, which offers practical advice to clients. This includes information on how to put together a selection panel, develop a questionnaire, set the criteria for a shortlist and then evaluate the short-listed candidates; enabling clients to create a team able to successfully work together.

“Selecting the Team” is part of the suite of partnering guides produced by the CIC that also includes “A Guide to Partnering Workshops”; this uses straightforward language to clarify why teams will benefit and projects be enhanced, by using workshops. Responding to the report of the Integration Task Group CIC has now made both publications freely available to the construction industry.

In his foreword to the document Sir John Egan wrote: “Forming a satisfactory team is a vital step if partnering is to be successful. Selecting the Team will be of great assistance, not only to clients and their advisers, who are embarking on integrated team working for the first time, but will also serve as a standard methodology for those who are more experienced”.

Commenting on the decision, Integration Task Group Chairman, Martin Nielsen, said: “The decision by the CIC is welcomed by the task group as a first step in encouraging further team working in the industry. This is the first of a number of actions that are currently being recommended by the Integration Task Group.”

Martin Davis, the SEC Group representative on the Integration Task Group added: “Significantly this tool is designed objectively to assess the ability and merits of all members of the integrated team: consultant designers, project/construction managers, specialist contractors, key suppliers/manufacturers and supply chains, cost advisers and facilities managers. Its promotion is timely as pressure to realize the full potential benefits from integrated projects is growing.”

The Forum has asked the Task Group to continue its work and to draw up a detailed business plan for taking this agenda forward.

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Notes

1. The Strategic Forum comprises of six members: Construction Industry Council, Construction Clients Group, Construction Confederation, the Construction Products Association, NSCC/SEC Group and the TUC. Key themes for the Forum’s work are health & safety, sustainability, integration and conservation, repair and maintenance.

2. The Forum’s Vision is for the UK construction industry to realise maximum value for all clients, end users and stakeholders and exceed their expectations through the consistent delivery of world-class products.

3. The Strategic Forum for Construction established the Integration Task Group in March to specifically review the business case for integration and how best to promote integration.

4. ‘Selecting the Team’ and ‘A Guide to Partnering Workshops’ are now available to download free of charge from CIC http://www.cicshop.co.uk/acatalog/Books.html#a4

Further information:

Simon Storer, External Affairs Director
Construction Products Association
Tel: 020 7323 3770
Fax: 020 7323 0307
Mobile:07702 862 257
E-mail: simon.storer@constructionproducts.org.uk

www.strategicforum.org.uk