IESE construction frameworks and waste reduction - a public sector client view

Improvement and Efficiency South East

IESE construction frameworks and waste reduction

- a public sector client view

Mark ThomasIESE Framework ManagerHampshire County Council



Why IESE? • Spend with external suppliers for public sector in England is £220bn (09/10)

• of which £50bn is by local government

• 96% of local govt spend with external suppliers is in 4 areas:-

WasteConstruction Corporateservices

Social care



Originated in 2003 to support Local Government efficiency

National Improvement Workstreams were created including:- social care, municipal waste, procurement, and construction.

Hampshire County Council provides the lead for the construction workstream in the South East Region (and Nationally)




Map of IESE Region & London7 Counties12 Unitary = 74 authorities55 Districts

5 police authorities, 8 fire authorities, colleges, universities, NHS.

+ 33 London Boroughs, Met Police

Over 260 named organisations on new OJEU



The Frameworks 1

Major Contractors Framework

• For major projects and programmes of work £1m to £30m++• Operates until July 2011• Overall £1.3bn work to date across whole SE & London • 50+ contracting authorities • 180+ contracts• Saved over £40m of project costs.• 10 Contractors

Costain, Mace, Kier, Mansell, Morgan Sindall, Wates, Willmott Dixon, Volker Fitzpatrick, BAM, Warings



The Frameworks 2

Local contractors frameworks in Hampshire, Sussex, Berkshire (& Surrey) for projects c £10,000 - £750,000

e.g. Kier Regional, Geoffrey Osborne, Rok, Mansell,Raymond Brown, May Gurney, Morgan Sindall

Consultants Framework

Bovis, Capita Symonds, Drivers Jonas, EC Harris, Rider Levitt Bucknall Gardiner and Theobald, Jacobs, Mott McDonald, Pick Everard, MACE, Turner and Townsend, Faithfull and Gould

Highways Professional Services


Why construction waste reduction is important to IESE



1 Efficiency i.e. save money on public sector projects

£1000 per skip - cost hidden in project budget

Councils pay £1bn landfill tax in South East

2 IESE Waste Management workstream (MSW)Joining up IESE workstreams

3 Public Sector has landfill site political problem

3 Carbon….is coming!



What we are doing

• Pathway to Zero Waste

• Contractors Waste Working Group started in 2007

• SWMP training arranged for SME contractors

• Grundon & SITA agreed to accept SME recycling on Hampshire school projects

• Designing Out Waste Plan and SWMP to be introduced at

RIBA Stage C in IESE project process

• Joint contactors and consultants working group



Contractors Waste Working Group

Wates and Willmott Dixon lead

• First defined terms of reference.

Focus on physical waste to landfill

- not recycled content

- not site management of waste / logistics plans

- not process waste (time waste)

- not SWMP

Measurement method

e.g. tonnes vs. m3 vs. SYSE

frequency of reporting

% recycled, or tonnes, or m3/£100k?



Documents we adopted:-

• Strategy for sustainable construction

• WRAP guidelines for measuring and reporting construction, demolition and excavation waste

• WRAP construction commitments

• WRAP Design Guide





Data capture



All data 2008-2010 Number of sites reporting 63 / 120

Demolition created 14871

Demolition Landfill 3290

Excavation Created 134912

Excavation Landfill 24709

Construction Created 55260

Construction Landfill 9532

Waste retained 3316

Total Waste 198139

Total to Landfill 35985

% to Landfill 17%

Waste not sent to Landfill162,154 tonnes

22%

17%

18%



Waste data by company (2008-2010)

Contractor

Waste created

WasteLandfilled

%Landfill

A 21177 6982 33.0%

B 46642 14026 30.1%

C 8251 1344 16.3%

D 20670 4020 19.4%

E 15992 3384 21.2%

F 6793 2522 37.1%

G 14025 1091 7.8%

H 1403 557 39.7%

I 63185 2059 3.3%


Designing out waste



Designing out Waste

• Set up new joint working group with framework contractors and consultants (Oct 2009)

Principally:- Willmott Dixon, Wates, Jacobs. & RLB, Warings, Morgan

• Material selection matrix / design details

• Material supply chain – link into design choices

• Agreed client is significant part of process Produced client guide



Client Guide



Conclusions

• Minimising waste to landfill is particularly important to the public sector

• IESE, and the framework suppliers, have put considerable effort into the initiative over and above their day-jobs

• IESE cannot be proscriptive (contractual) over waste minimisation but is concentrating on culture change, and a collaborative approach across all parts of the project team.

• Developing consistent, reliable and representative measurement of waste across different contracts and contractors is very hard.



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