Supported by the Construction Industry Group

Speaker:

Dr David Hancock, Construction Director, Infrastructure and Projects Authority

Thrive or Survive? Delivering sympathetic, healthy, high quality assets with increased productivity and profits in the construction sector

The UK Government has introduced the construction playbook, a joint development between government and industry. The playbook recognises that MMC is a term that covers various techniques, including onsite and offsite activity. It emphasises that “offsite” is not an end in itself. It states that departments should set targets to maximise adoption of MMC and that contracting authorities must consider how MMC “can drive wider value”, including social value and the drive to net zero.

Even more exciting, though, is the prominence the playbook gives to the Platform approach. This approach identifies standard products and components that can be used to deliver a wide range of built assets – think how the car industry creates a huge variety of vehicles using a core set of common components – with all the tried and tested advantages that brings in terms of efficiency, quality and scope for innovation. Hear from one of the authors and members of the steering committee why the playbook has been developed and what the government hopes will be achieved by its application. 

About the speaker

Dr David Hancock is a chartered engineer and the senior commercial advisor in the Cabinet Office providing construction and project support to Secretaries of State, Ministers and all Government Departments. A high-risk project reviewer across Government and a graduate of the Major Projects Leadership Academy. He chairs the Government Construction Board and sits on a variety of across government boards including Cladding remediation, New Prisons Programme, Buckingham Palace refurbishment, British Antarctic Survey and is the non-executive chair of CIRIA. Prior to this from 2009-2016 he was Head of the PMO and Risk for TfL which included the 2012 Olympics and.Renowned internationally as a leading thinker and practitioner in the field of behavioural risk, he is the author of the bestselling book “Tame, Messy and Wicked Risk Leadership”. He has worked across public, private and voluntary sectors and was the risk director for the Terminal 5 Project, Heathrow. He promotes the case for rethinking project management as a collaborative social interaction rather than through rigorous application of process and policy.   A visiting fellow of Cranfield University business school. He has a Degree and PhD in engineering from the University of Nottingham alongside an MBA from the University of Bath. 

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