Building Down Barriers Tools
Objectives
Listed below are those tools from the Building Down Barriers Toolkit which are cross-referenced by the Strategic Forum's Integration Toolkit. These are made available free of charge as part of CEonstructing Excellence's commitment to pan-industry change.
Description
In late 1999 the then Design Build Foundation (now Constructing Excellence) was invited by the Ministry of Defence to take responsibility for rolling out the implementation of the toolkit and other material that was developed as part of the MOD’s Defence Estates’ Building Down Barriers project. The full toolkit is available free of charge to Constructing Excellence members, and many of the tools are referenced by the Strategic Forum’s Integration Toolkit.
Participating members
Defence Estates, Laing O'Rourke, Amec
Partners
Tavistock Institute, Warwick Manufacturing Group (later Collaborative Working Centre)
Timetable
The tools were developed as part of the MOD’s Defence Estates’ Building Down Barriers project between 1996 and 1999.
Outputs
The full toolkit is available free of charge to Be members from the Members-only part of this website
Resources
Contact
Don Ward, Constructing Excellence, Don Ward.
Documents
Tools for getting started with a project
Deriving the historical through life cost baseline
Selecting Supply Partners for the Project
Setting incentives and shared saving schemes
Applying risk management in practice
Working together to clarify project values
The handbook of supply chain management
Collaborating in design and contruction
Forming supply clusters and appointing cluster leaders
Collaborating to plan and sequence design activities
Collecting and documenting through-life cost dat
Getting started with collaborative costing
Planning and managing construction to optimise programme and minimise waste
Forming new teams and inducting new project members
Proving through life cost: the compliance plan and proving arrangements
Tools for assessing project and building performance
Assessing the products of a building project
Assessing business and engineering processes
Designing using value management
Implementing continuous improvement
Setting incentives and shared saving schemes
Conducting meaningful evaluation of products and processes
Identifying training needs and planning training
Links