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Challenging the mobilisation myth: Driving performance through effective contract mobilisation | Interactive Workshop
2023-09-13 15:45 - 18:00 UTC | ResoLex, 1 Paternoster Lane, Paternoster Square, City of London, London, EC4M 7BQ, United Kingdom
Team mobilisation is often seen as a half-day activity to generate a behavioural charter that becomes a poster on the meeting room wall and is then largely ignored for the rest of the contract. In recent years, however, there are a number of projects and programmes that have significantly increased performance by taking a systematic approach to contract mobilisation.
This workshop will explore various approaches to mobilisation including:

Starting early in the procurement process
Cutting across internal silos to align deliverables and contractual scope
Aligning internal maturity with desired partner maturity and behaviours
Adopting a pragmatic approach based on the reality of the environment
Designing and preparing from first impressions to valued long-term relationships

In this session, we will be joined by Liz Lawman, Head of Mobilisation at HS2, who will share her experiences in mobilising multiple major contracts within a single programme.
The event has been designed to cover general industry learning and encourage peer-to-peer sessions to challenge assumptions and develop bespoke possibilities for mobilisation strategies for those in the room.
For this workshop, we’ve partnered with the Major Projects Association (MPA). The event is open to both members and non-members of the MPA and has also been advertised on their website.
If you would like to attend, please contact sascha.flint@majorprojects.org to set up your registration.

ResoLex Roundtable: Behavioural Impact on Productivity
2023-07-05 17:30 - 20:00 | ResoLex, 1 Paternoster Lane, Paternoster Square, City of London, London, EC4M 7BQ, United Kingdom
The construction industry must embrace new approaches for mega projects, but the requirement is even greater when delivering giga projects. The scale of these complex programme environments offer the opportunity to experiment with new practices and ideas to tackle even more complex challenges. However, the significance of behaviours is often overlooked.
We see major projects comprising of three interlinked competencies; technical, commercial and behavioural. Many project teams put resource into managing the first two competencies but the behavioural challenges are equally important and we believe they are inextricably linked to project performance. For example, we must navigate complicated interfaces, and manage cultural diversity and different ways of working – addressing these challenges is even more pressing on larger projects.
The question is, how can we effectively manage these issues as the project scale increases?
We are pleased to announce that three exceptional speakers from Jacobs will be joining us for our next roundtable. Jessica Ellery, Director of Market Solutions, Gail Hunter, Divisional Director, and Josh Weatherley, Construction Manager will delve into one of their current projects, a real-life $500Bn giga project in Saudi Arabia. The Line is a linear smart city under construction in Neom. Using this live case study as a reference, the speakers will explore how they are overcoming some of the challenges faced.
The session will focus on productivity throughout the project lifecycle, including, team behaviours, and how incentivisation can positively or negatively influence productivity within project delivery.
We’d love to see you there to explore the topic further! Please register below to book your place.
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ResoLex Roundtable: The Private Sector Playbook
2023-03-08 17:30 - 19:30 | ResoLex, 1 Paternoster Lane, Paternoster Square, City of London, London, EC4M 7BQ, United Kingdom
The Construction Playbook, published back in 2020, set the tone for how we can transform the productivity of the sector by changing the way that major projects and programmes are assessed, procured, and delivered. Taking their cue from the report, private sector organisations have since come together to develop ‘Trust and Productivity – The Private Sector Playbook’. This brings client and delivery organisations together in a unique way to address ways of working outlined by the Construction Playbook and demonstrate how implementing a different approach can lead to more productive projects and better outcomes.
Trust and Productivity could be a catalyst for change in the industry if adopted by clients, contractors, and others within the private sector supply chain. The question is, how do we shift from one way of working to another? How can we create the right environment to enable a shift in mindset and leave behind the more traditional behaviours that are currently embedded in our delivery teams?
To explore these questions further, we are delighted to be joined by Alison Cox, Managing Director of Sir Robert McAlpine’s London business unit and contributor to the Private Sector Playbook and Charles Horne, Project Director at British Land and lead on the Broadgate Framework – an exemplar project used as a case study in the playbook. Our speakers join us with a wealth of experience in varied delivery environments and each has a unique perspective on the outcome of the Broadgate Framework as contractor and client respectively. We are looking forward to delving into the practicalities of delivering in accordance with the playbook, and sharing some of our experience in how strengthening the social competency of the team can help to deliver better outcomes.
This event is not to be missed!
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Rail Forum's Infrastructure Collaboration - A route to success
2022-11-01 09:30 - 14:30 | RaisE Business Centre, Tom Pudding Way, Goole, DN14 6BS
A Rail Forum event:
‘Collaboration’ has become a bit of a buzzword in rail in recent times. But what does it mean for the supply chain, why is it important and how can we ensure it works for everyone?
Collaboration can take many forms – from establishing a formal joint venture (JV) company to a simple handshake in the pub! How do you decide what’s the best approach for your business and what are the risks and benefits attached to that approach?
Clients are now consistently citing the importance of collaboration in delivering the best value for them and their funders and the increased presence of JVs in the market demonstrates that in some areas at least the supply chain has responded to this. In addition, Network Rail has expressed a need for ‘thinner supply chains’ moving forward with more responsibility being placed on their tier ones. This means that EFFECTIVE collaboration between tier one companies and the wider supply chain including SMEs will become even more important.
For collaboration to work it must be a win-win for all parties involved. This event aims to be as ‘three-dimensional’ as possible discussing more widely what ‘collaboration’ means/might entail for members moving forward. It includes a legal view and some real-life examples of successful collaborations to win business.
REGISTER HERE: https://www.railforum.uk/events/infrastructure-collaboration-a-route-to-success/

Roundtable: Transferable skills transforming delivery
2022-10-11 17:30 - 19:30 | ResoLex, 1 Paternoster Lane, Paternoster Square, City of London, London, EC4M 7BQ, United Kingdom
The ongoing skills shortage is an issue that is widespread and impacting every discipline, especially in the delivery of construction and infrastructure projects across the UK. Many of the contributing factors are outside of the control of project professionals, (such as an ageing workforce with few new entrants) though significant efforts are being put forward to respond to these factors including coordinated industry efforts to attract young people into apprenticeships and early starter programmes.
This is one aspect of the approach to resolving the challenge, however, we want to look at it from a different perspective – as the rate of change in skills requirements accelerates, how can we build flexibility into our teams to meet those challenges? What do those transferable skills look like in practice and how are they key to delivering within a complex environment?
Join us on Tuesday 11th October for a roundtable discussion exploring these themes further! We are delighted to have Rose McArthur, Director for Transport and Highways at Cheshire West and Chester Council join us and share some of her experience in developing and applying those transferable skills on her career journey from a primarily technical role to using a broad set of skills to lead a diverse infrastructure portfolio.

Speaker: Rose McArthur
Director for Transport and Highways
Rose has over 20 years of experience delivering strategic transport programmes across the globe. She joined Cheshire West and Chester Council in 2021 from Mott MacDonald where she was a Technical Director. She has delivered projects that include the transport strategy behind the last two Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the Gold Coast as well as the movement strategy behind the build of the Sydney Light Rail and Melbourne Metro. She has worked as a strategic advisor to the DfT engaging with all 79 Local Transport Authorities across England to develop their covid recovery strategies for transport.
She was heavily involved in the surface access strategy development for Heathrow airport. As the new Director for Transport and Highways, she manages a hugely diverse portfolio that includes Strategic Transport, Transport Commissioning, Public Transport, Active Travel, Flooding, Highways and Fleet amongst many other areas, developing teams who work hard to deliver what it takes to keep Cheshire West moving.

Roundtable: Putting the Construction Playbook into practice
2022-06-30 17:30 - 19:30 | ResoLex, 1 Paternoster Lane, Paternoster Square, City of London, London, EC4M 7BQ, United Kingdom
NOTE: DATE CHANGED – Sorry for any inconvenience but we have changed the date from the 21st June to the 30th June to avoid the tube strike.
In December 2020, the Government released ‘The Construction Playbook’ in a bid to transform how major projects and programmes are assessed, procured, and delivered. The Playbook provides some clear approaches to what we need to do, though it doesn’t explain how to achieve behavioural change. In our complimentary report, ‘Changing Behaviours in Construction: A complement to the Construction Playbook’, we have considered the cultural and behavioural changes needed to enable this transformation of the industry. We’d like to take this opportunity to discuss how we, as an industry, might put these approaches into practice!

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