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Welcome to the London Constructing Excellence Club's website

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News

17 January 2012

March Event- London 2012

We are delighted to confirm that the ODA will join us in March to discuss the challenges and achievements with the Olympic build event

16 January 2012

2012 Events

We have another exciting range of events planned for 2012. The new year kicks off with an evening with Paul Morrell on Tuesday the 17th of January.

03 January 2012

An Evening with Paul Morrell- Tuesday 17th January 2012

We are delighted to welcome Paul Morrell the Government’s Chief Construction Adviser as our guest for the evening at our AGM early in the New Year.

03 January 2012

NOTICE OF 2012 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING-Tuesday 17th January 2012

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the London Constructing Excellence Club will be held at the London Capital Club, 15 Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BW on Tuesday 17th January 2012 commencing at 6:30 p.m.

29 November 2011

Getting Ready for Changes to the Construction Act

For those that missed our informative event on changes to the Construction Act, we are pleased to include the slides and voice over at the following link http://vimeo.com/30128135

29 November 2011

Membership details for 2012

2012 Membership Subscription Rates are: Individual = £60 (£50EBD) Corporate = £200 (£175 EBD) University = £125 (EBD represents an early bird discount if paid prior to the second club meeting on 14th February) Corporate members may have up to 6 employees attend any event. University members may have up to a total of 4 staff and students attend any event.

01 February 2011

2011 Events

2011 looks set to be another interesting year for the club, with many event speakers already confirmed. We welcome the award winning City Academy, Hackney team in February. In March, we are delighted to follow up last year's successful BIM presentation with an expert panel. In April, we have a talk on retrofit solutions in both housing and commercial properties. We plan to visit at least two external projects in May and July. See attached a full list of planned events

01 February 2011

AGM News

We had an excellent turnout at our AGM earlier in the month and those present were treated to a perfectly balanced presentation by Simon Rawlinson. As before a mini video blog has been posted at http://londoncec.blogspot.com to give a taste of the evening. However on this occasion there is no powerpoint presentation to post as Simon did not use one. See attached AGM Report.

01 February 2011

Event in February

We are delighted to be featuring one of Constructing Excellence's 2010 award winners at our February event. The regional award for 'Integration and Collaborative Working' was given to the City Academy, Hackney and Sabah Abed from Willmott Dixon will be presenting and sharing the key aspects of the project which made it such a success in one of the core theme areas for Constructing Excellence and the Clubs We are at the Capital Club in Abchurch Lane on the 8th February, 6 for 6.30pm.

15 December 2010

AGM and January event

Our Annual General Meeting will take place on Tuesday the 18th of January at 18:00 at our usual home, the London Capital Club. This will be followed by a presentation from Simon Rawlinson head of Strategic Research & Insight team at EC Harris on prospects for 2011 and beyond

27 September 2010

September's event -copy of presentation

We were delighted to welcome Don Ward, Chief Executive of Constructing Excellence to our September event. Don delivered an interesting presentation on 'Never Waste a Good Crisis' which is a new report from Constructing Excellence authored by Andrew Wolstenholme of Balfour Beatty Management. The report looks to determine the level of industry progress since Rethinking Construction and define the improvement agenda for the next decade

05 July 2010

Presentation from our event in June -Frameworks

We had another well attended and lively event in June which was on Frameworks-Getting it Right. Many thanks to Zoe Mulholland and her supporting team from Imperial College for a great presentation and Q and A session.

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Events

03 January 2012

An Evening with Paul Morrell & Annual General Meeting

We are delighted to welcome Paul Morrell the Government’s Chief Construction Adviser as our guest for the evening at our AGM early in the New Year. To register for this event please use this link: http://lcecagm2012.eventbrite.co.uk

14 February 2012

February Event- Procurement Best Practice

Procurement Best Practice with Don Ward

13 March 2012

March Event-- London 2012

We are delighted to confirm that the ODA will join us in March to discuss the challenges and achievements with the Olympic build event

10 April 2012

Retrofitting as a sustainable solution

Following last year's poplar retrofit event, we are pleased to confirm that we welcome back both Cyril Sweet and the Warwall Road retrofit for the future teams.

08 May 2012

Building Visit to Maurice Wohl

Visit to the The Maurice Wohl institute, on King’s College’s Denmark Hill campus, which is setting out to be Europe's leading centre for neuroscience research.

12 June 2012

Energy Efficiency Verification for Funding Purposes

Further details to be confirmed

10 July 2012

Building Visit

TBC

11 September 2012

Beyond BIM

TBC

09 October 2012

Building Performance - post occupancy review

Further details TBC

13 November 2012

Localism-Planning Update

TBC

11 December 2012

Wine Tasting

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