Tag: Culture
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Gilbert-Ash puts innovation and collaboration at heart of company culture
From refurbishing Tate Liverpool to renovating the National Portrait Gallery, Gilbert-Ash is helping shape the UK’s cultural spaces. A deep retrofit strategy included the installation of an entirely new facade system. This was developed as the optimum solution through the use of a whole-life carbon option appraisal, and ensured that, through the utilisation of the…
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How to embed a culture of continuous improvement in health and safety
In the second article in his series, the Considerate Constructors Scheme’s Alex Minett looks at how construction project managers can implement continuous improvement in health and safety on site. Image: Dreamstime Health and safety in construction is grounded in key UK laws such as the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSWA) and the…
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A Culture of Innovation – Interview with Daniel Sundlin, Partner at Bjarke Ingels Group
In this podcast interview, my guest is Daniel Sundlin, a partner at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in New York. We talk about how BIG innovates and what opportunities and challenges digitalization brings to architecture. BIG is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers, builders, and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism,…
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Adopting a Culture of Experimentation in Construction
I’ve attended numerous seminars and workshops that came to the same conclusion: construction must become more customer-focused and, at the same time, productivity must go up. In spite of even substantial investments in development projects and change programs, very little has changed. Could a culture of experimentation come to the rescue? The challenge Recently, I’ve…