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Morrell points way to happy landings
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aul Morrell had some stark messages for delegates at last month’s CIBSE Conference and Exhibition. The chief construction adviser leaves his post at the end
Hard landings are the result of factionalism in the procurement chain and the determination to keep design and construction separate
of November and used his keynote speech to call on industry to adopt radical approaches to cut carbon and fend off the economic challenge from China. A reluctance to adopt new ways of thinking, such as building information modelling (BIM) and prefabrication, was holding back the construction industry, according to Morrell. He said BIM models could be used repeatedly to avoid the cost of designing projects from scratch. It’s a valid point. As Morrell said, ‘If you design the perfect layout, why keep redesigning it?’ The deep-rooted issue of class is still affecting industrial relationships in 21st century Britain, according to Morrell. The class divide in the sector sees architects at the top of the tree, followed by consultants, contractors and fi nally, subcontractors. ‘Hard landings’ are the result of the factionalism in the procurement chain and the ‘determination to keep design and construction separate,’ says Morrell. Lack of collaboration was borne out by panellists’ comments in the ensuing debate, with examples of manufacturers and building services engineers being excluded from the design process. But the conference wasn’t all about soul searching, and elsewhere there was a real buzz around the Green Deal, despite
concerns as to how it would work in practice. Civil servants did their best to answer numerous questions from the delegate fl oor. The core message was that the Green Deal would be targeting whole-house retrofi ts rather than improvements in isolation. This is good news, but puts more pressure on assessors to make the right call on the technical requirements of hard-to-treat properties. Finally, congratulations to all the winners of the CIBSE Young Engineer awards last month, including Graduate of the Year Lee Tabis, a trainee design engineer at NG Bailey, and winners of the Employer of the Year – AECOM, Max Fordham and overall winner JDP.
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