Leading construction professionals meet at the University of Salford
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Salford’s School of Built Environment teamed up with Highways England to host top professionals to discuss the future of Britain’s infrastructure.
The Lean Practitioners event, which brought 100 delegates from 40 different companies, focused on the need to drive efficiencies, reduce waste and improve productivity after the failure of Carillion earlier this month.
The event attracted top industry leaders, including Managing Director of Costain, Darren James, Vice President Global Quality at AECOM, Sue Ann Averitte, The Lean Manager at the £6BN Lower Thames Crossing, Randi Christensen and Paz Arroyo, an expert from America in “Choosing Advantage” and were part of a panel, discussing the challenges for construction and transportation in the future.
Infrastructure
Speaking at the University’s MediaCityUK campus, Dean of the School of Built Environment, Professor Hisham Elkadi highlighted the need for future infrastructure that could sense, design, learn and adapt.
Lecturer in Building Management, Dr Zeeshan Aziz, highlighted the continued engagement of the School of Built Environment in embedding Lean Strategies and tools within Highways England supply chain, leading to completion of 10 research projects over past few years.
Darren James, Managing Director of Costain, said: “I had the pleasure of addressing the Higher Education Lean Practitioners event at the University of Salford this week and shared a vision of what we need to do to drive this agenda forward.
"I left confident that we have the people, skills, capability and commitment to deliver the HE imperatives and “Lean" will be at the heart of how we deliver this objective."
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