Rethinking Construction, the report of the Construction Task Force
chaired by Sir John Egan, to the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott,
was launched in 1998.
The report exhorted the Construction Industry to embrace radical and
continuous change in order to achieve dramatic increases in efficiency
and quality.
Egan identified five drivers of change:-
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Committed leadership |
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Customer focus |
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Integration of the process
and the team |
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Quality |
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Commitment to people |
He further identified six complementary elements, all involving
measurement and innovation to improve the project process:-
Integrated Project Process
Utilising the complementary skills of the full construction team
to deliver value to
the Client.
Product Development
Understanding the Client's needs and then exceeding them.
Project Implementation
Setting performance targets, measuring performance and continuous
improvement.
Partnering the Supply Chain
Value-based sourcing and managing the process both up and down the
supply chain.
Production of Components
Designing for assembly.
Sustained Improvement
Maintaining the momentum of increased efficiency and quality.
The summary of the report emphasises the challenge 'we are not
inviting UK construction to look at what it does already and do
it better; we are asking the industry and Government to join with
major Clients to do it entirely differently. What we are proposing
is a radical change to the way we build. To achieve the dramatic
increases in efficiency and quality that are both possible and necessary,
we must all 'Rethink Construction.'
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