Top marks for the Lifeline Centre

The client survey results are now in for the new Lifeline Centre at Driffield. East Riding Council’s project manager awarded us the maximum 10 score for Product, Service, and Overall satisfaction. Well done to all the team!

 

 

Northern Dioceses

We've just received the framework documents for the Northern Dioceses framework. This will involve schools projects, and with a bit of luck we should see some of these coming through in the Autumn. The six Dioceses involved are Carlisle, Blackburn, Manchester, Chester, Liverpool and York. The intent will be for the School Governors under each Diocese to call upon the Main Contractors for individual projects to submit a best value proposition via a mini-competition with the successful appointment being on the basis of the criteria contained within the enquiry. The framework is worth arounf £40m in total

Woobius collaboration hub

Thanks to Martin at Fairsnape for letting us know about Woobius, the online collaboartion hub designed for architects and engineers that provides a simple way of file sharing. If anyone out there has looked at it or used it let us know

J Z Flowers update

Work is progressing well on the J Z Flowers site at North Cave . This picture of Dave and Pete on site was taken last week. You can see the site on your left as you approach the North Cave turn off heading west on the M62

Risk

I keep reading prequal after prequal that asks how we are going to manage or eliminate risk. As a long time gambler i've always seen risk as an opportunity, essentially a good thing. Someone please send me a prequal with this question: "how do you incentivise your staff to take risks or find ways of doing things better? Maybe we could adopt a "big stick" approach to innovation!

Wyke College site blog goes live

The Hobson & Porter site blog for the Wyke College redevelopment in Hull is now online. You can find it at http://hobsonandporter-wyke.blogspot.com and maybe you can even add yourself as a follower.

We’ll be posting up dates and information about the work and keeping you up to date with progress as the building progresses.

Hallgate Primary school

Just received photos of the new Hallgate Junior School in Cottingham. Another 10 out of 10 for Overall Satisfaction. Well done to all the team at H&P

Green Vision Leeds

Just back from a full day of presentations on sustainable construction at Green Vision in Leeds. Not many simple solutions or quick wins to report but came away with a number of useful information resources and websites to follow. Will try to attend "retrofit for the future" on Thursday

Low Carbon Innovation Bulletin

This is a weekly bulletin I signed up to a few months ago that does a good job of pulling together organisations and case studies relating to lowering carbon emissions

Collaborative Programming

It turns out that our site manager at Wyke College, Mark Kelsey, updates his programme every day with MS Project. All we need to do now is find an effective way of him sharing this information. Printing to PDF is a waste of time, a blog update would be better. I'll get a copy of Project and get his programme and test out the interchangeabilitywith GanttProject. I'm sure the project team, college, students and parents would like to have access to real time updates and programme.

Label cloud

I'm playing with a few ideas for label clouds in the betablog. Ignore anything that looks half baked.