Welcome to our December 2009 Newsletter

Welcome to our December 2009 Newsletter.  I am constantly reminded that to be engaged in changing our industry for the better is highly  challenging and must be done in partnership. With the Copenhagen conference currently in full swing, and urgent demands  for better value and performance  in all we deliver,  it has never been more necessary for us all to commit to deliver change.  We look to more strategic brokering of that change with the appointment of a new Chief Construction Advisor but we must also all look to what we can do ourselves.

 

Our website www.buildsw.org.uk is an ever more valuable tool for the  South West construction industry to  do that. I urge you to visit it regularly.  Change on all fronts at once can be overwhelming and self defeating however our commitment  to review a  section of the website per month and apply change in the business is no bad thing for any company. You will find some excellent material in areas such as climate change adaptation, or procurement training for clients health and safety for clients – taking just a few examples.

 

We are also about to set up a KPI community in the region where all parts of the team from supply chain to client can exchange issues and identify solutions in a community committed to improvement. Please contact us if you are interested in joining such a project by emailing info@buildsw.org.uk

 

Finally, in this season of  hope, my hope that we will all be able to find time to just  ‘be’- we are after all human beings. Reflection and action work well hand in hand and I would personally go quite mad without time to spend with family or in quietness looking at a view. We are allowed! The main challenges we face due to carbon emissions result from thoughtless consumption and unbridled development, and we humans are at the centre of it.  Some sincere quiet reflection on that would not go amiss for all of us. 

  

Director, CESW and FF