The West Midlands Centre for Constructing Excellence (WMCCE) has released a report on current practice in public sector procurement and highlighted how best practice in the West Midlands can boost involvement of construction SMEs in publicly funded construction contracts, to provide a much needed stimulus to the economic development of the region.
WMCCE, as well as working in close association with Constructing Excellence nationally, is a member of the Constructing Excellence Network, formerly the Built Environment Improvement Network.
CEN is a regional network for a safe, sustainable and continuously improving Built Environment Sector, sharing knowledge, innovating together, and working in an integrated and effective manner.
This could be the site temporary site for HAWCE, providing information on:
until such time as a permanent site is set up.
Providing improvement and support to various organisations both in the public and private sectors, for example:
The following table provides information on the specialisms of various Universities and their Schools / Institutes within the West Midlands.
Further information will be presented as and when it is received.
There is no one definition of Best Practice, but during a survey in early 2009 to find people's opinions on Best Practice, some of the key words used to define Best Practice were:
Best Practice cogs
One definition of Best Practice is:
WMCCE is a Coordination Organisation. One of our major functions is to bring together where we can the many different factions and initiatives that make up the Construction Industry in the West Midlands.
If we do not have the specific knowledge being sought, there is a strong possibility that we will know where such knowledge can be obtained.
Knowledge is collected and distributed through several different routes including:
