Case Study
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Building Awareness
Published: 1 March 2004 | Author: Constructing Excellence
The work force available to the construction industry is shrinking and the demand for skills required for profitable construction increasing. The resulting shortage of properly skilled people threatens the shareholder value of large construction companies and the viability of smaller businesses.
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Taylor Woodrow Total Safety Management
Published: 1 July 2004 | Author: Constructing Excellence
This publication describes how Taylor Woodrow is achieving total safety management; in the last eleven years it has reduced the reportable incidents by 50% and outperforms the industry benchmarks for safety.
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Trailblazing Partnership Shows How to Change Maintenance
Published: 1 March 2005 | Author: Constructing Excellence
A case study looking at the partnership between Broomleigh Housing Association and contractor Geoffrey Osbourne.
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Focus on customers in kitchen and bathroom upgrades
Published: 17 February 2005 | Author: Constructing Excellence
Defective workmanship was often taken for granted before clients took note of the 1998 report Rethinking Construction. But not any more. When contractors for Worthing Homes say "zero defects", they really do mean "no defects at all".
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Supply Chain Partnering
Published: 1 March 2004 | Author: Constructing Excellence
On average, a third of the cost of a construction contract at Taylor Woodrow is spent on M&E. This is the largest individual prime cost spend and an increasingly complex area of a building. Savings in M&E spend can be sufficiently large to make the difference between winning and losing a job at the tender stage, and profit and loss at the build stage.
