The meeting included:
-       Welcome to all participants  and a short introduction round
-       Presentation  of the participant’s H&S data according to the ENCORD KPI guide
-       Presentation of best practice examples including discussion

The second part of the meeting started with an introduction to a special workshop  project titled “How does a safe job site look like?” respectively  “The safe job site and return on prevention”.

Following the presentation (result of the brain storming of a smaller workgroup) the participants discussed the philosophy of the idea and the findings presented. As a result of this workshop 4 groups have been established. These workgroups will continue to work on the topics in order to have first results ready for the next ENCORD H&S meeting. 

The second day all members participated in the 3rd lnternational HSE Conference  organized by Hilti. A summary of this conference will be provided by Hilti in a separate document. 

The third day gave all members the opportunity to visit the BAUMA trade show in Munich.

Thank you
ENCORD H&S would like to thank the host HILTI for making this excellent meeting possible.

 Next meeting
The next ENCORD Health & Safety Platform meeting will be hosted by YIT lnternational Construction Services on 20th and 21st November  in Helsinki/Finland.

The following measurement guidance document has been developed by the members of ENCORD (European Network of Construction Companies for Research and Development), along with partners from other like-minded worldwide construction organisations, and details the methodology for the measurement and reporting of waste from construction activities. The document also supplements the ENCORD Construction CO2e Measurement Protocol, as the data produced can be used for the calculation of Scope 3 CO2e emissions for emission source 10.

Guidance is provided on how to measure waste arisings and reuse, recycling and recovery from construction, demolition and excavation on construction projects, as well as waste from construction company premises, with a view that companies will report their waste production publicly. The document identifies the scope and recommended levels of waste reporting, and also requires users to identify the disposal routes for the construction waste produced. The document is also intended to assist companies in reducing waste production from specific construction related activities from current and future work undertaken.

This document will be updated from time to time to take account of any new standards or changes to current methodologies.

Click here to download the Guide.

The main topics of the meeting were:
- Skanska welcome
- Best Practices / What’s new presentations
- Update on ENCORD Platforms Sustainability and Lean Construction
- Workshop on meeting theme (collaboration with other ENCORD Platforms)
- Update on Standards: IFD NL (CB-NL), openINFRA
- Update other networks: 5D-Initiative, 5Di Software Vendor Workshop Athens
- Presentation on EU R&D projects: Hesmos, eBSN
- Presentation by new participants: Uponor, OHL

During the two day ENCORD VCP meeting Best Practice / What’s new presentations were presented by all 16 present ENCORD member companies. The presentations were alternated with different other presentations by ENCORD members and external guests and a workshop on collaboration with other
ENCORD platforms / working groups.

For this meeting we invited 1 external guest:
- Arcadis presented about the Dutch Concept Dictionairy naming convention initiative (IFD);
- Arcadis presented about the EU R&D project eBSN

The ENCORD VCP members presented about their internal Best Practices and in addition to that the following presentations and discussions:
- Bouygues (Pierre Benning) presented on the openINFRA initiative;
- CCC (Issam El Absi) presented about the latest work of the 5D initiative and the software vendor
workshop that was held in Athens in the last week of February 2013;

Finally the ENCORD VCP group and available guests participated in a workshop where in 4 smaller groups the following questions were answered regarding the collaboration with other ENCORD Platforms:
- What do you associate with these topics (Lean Construction / Sustainability)?
- How are topics related?
- Implementation similarities
- Examples how can developments be linked, work more complementary
- Focus area per group: 1. Methods / market trends, 2. standards, 3. tools, 4. change management
- What would be your question to the ENCORD Sustainability and Lean Construction platform?

Thank you
ENCORD VCP would like to thank the host Skanska for making this excellent meeting possible.

Next meeting
The next ENCORD VCP meeting is planned to take place on:
Monday 14 – Thursday 17 October 2013
Hilti / Liechtenstein (Combined with Hilti BIM meeting)
The topics for the meeting will be decided later.

Topics of the meeting included:

- An introduction to the head office of Vinci Paris.
- A short review of the four web meetings since last workshop in Ludwigshafen.
- An interactive workshop to discuss and to complete the indicators to define the value of lean
- Best practice presentations of Bam Nuttall, Zueblin, Strabag and CCC.
- A visit of a construction site of Vinci Paris.

The meeting also included:

Current situation after the four web meetings. By Ger Maas.
Workshop for indicators to define the value of lean. By Ger Maas and Wim van den Bouwhuijsen.
Presentation: BAM Nuttall, Our lean journey so far, by David Anderson.
Presentation: Schedule Control and Daily Construction records. By Jonas Trosse.
Presentation: Replacement of manhole covers in Rennsteig tunnel, an example for using LEAN. By Michael Ott.
Presentation: The use of improved equipment. By Naim Y. Abulaila.
Site visit of the Louis Vuitton project. By Guillaume Duche, Christophe Gobin and Serge Goepp.

Thank you
Encord would like to thank the host Vinci Paris, specially Christophe Gobin and Serge Goepp who made this meeting that excellent.

Next meeting
The group will meet again in Germany in October, on behalf of HOCHTIEF Solutions AG.
The topics of the meeting you will hear in time.

The meeting included:
- An introduction to the activities of the host Vinci.
- A review of the Lean Webinars, November 2012, December 2012, January 2013 and February 2013.
- A review of the ENVIRONMENT workshop February 2013
- Overview of upcoming events (dates, location, topics)
- An update from the reFINE initiative
- Overview of P-NET: Construction R&D networking 2.0 (Projects and partners global tool)
- An active discussion on the restructuring of ECTP
- A site visit to the Museum of the European and Mediterranean Civilizations
- Some internal ENCORD admin topics, e.g. ENCORD intranet hosted by Ballast Nedam

Thank you
ENCORD would like to thank the host Louis Demilecamps, Directeur, Direction des Ressources techniques et du Développement durable (DRD), Vinci Construction France for hosting this excellent meeting.

Next meeting
The next ENCORD Council Meeting will be hosted by Hochtief 24-25 June 2013 in Hamburg, Germany.

ENCORD Waste Measurement Protocol:
    – Discussion on the various comments of the ENCORD Waste Measurement Protocol.
    – Waste CO2e conversion factors
Presentation – SuPerBuildings FP7 EU Project:    
    - Presentation and discussion on the SuPerBuildings FP7 EU Project.
Presentation – FCC Waste Measurement:
    – Scope of measurement.
    - Data collection technique.
    - Importance of reporting.
 Presentation – Skanska
    - 2015 target of less than 2% of waste to landfill.
    - All data collected by the project and collated at the business unit.
    - SkanskaHouse: 99% waste diverted form landfill, 35% less energy.
Presentation- BAM BIM:
    - Sustainability advantages of BIM:
             Reducing waste, materials efficiency, and carbon savings.

The agenda for the next meeting Tuesday 21st May 2013, to be held at Skanska offices, Sweden will include:
    – Skanska on BIM and embodied CO2
    – CO2 measurement from Acciona on Open House Project
    – CO2 conversion factors for waste in various countries
    – Water measurement and reduction measures.
    - ENCORD Sustainability Charter

ENCORD is glad to announce that Laura Tordera González, Manager International RDI Projects at Ferrovial Agroman S.A will take on the position as General Secretary in February 2013.
Laura is well known in the ENCORD community as participant of council meetings and an expert in workshop meetings.
With the experience of her international R&D&I activities, Laura also brings great knowledge of the Brussels R&D&I environment to ENCORD.

We are looking forward to working with Laura,

Ger Maas, ENCORD President

The meeting included:
-       An introduction to the activities of the host Bouygues.
-       A review of the Lean Workshop September 2012
-       A review of the HSE workshop and site visit in September 2012
-       A review of the VCP workshop October 2012
-       A review of the ENVIRONMENT workshop October 2012
-       Overview of upcoming events (dates, location, topics)
-       An update from the reFINE initiative
-       A brief discussion on the next steps of the Sustainable Development Charter
-       The proposal of having a High Level Event 2013 in conjunction with the ECTP meeting in June
-       The election of Laura Tordera González of Ferrovial as new General Secretary
-       A site visit to the renovation project of the Bouygues Headquarter that aims to move the complex to a resource efficient concept
-       Some internal ENCORD admin topics, e.g. the budget for 2013
-       And an intense workshop on the second day that focused on how to implement and exploit the results of RDI.

Thank you
ENCORD would like to thank the host Claude Dumoulin, Director and Official representative at the Technical Division of Bouygyes Travaux Publics for hosting this excellent meeting.

Next meeting
The next ENCORD Council Meeting will be hosted by VINCI 25-26 February 2013 in Marseille, France.

The main topics of the meeting were:
- Best Practices / What’s new presentations
- Workshop on topic collecting and using Metrics \ Get LinkedIn group working
- Update on Standards: COBie 2.0, IFD – Pilot Projects NL, openINFRA, COBIM 2012
- Update other networks: 5Di – workshop with vendors, BIM Summit Qatar, BIM Forum event
- Technologies: Cloud Computing, Solibri developments, Gehry Technologies

During the two day ENCORD VCP meeting Best Practice / What’s new presentations were presented by all 13 present ENCORD member companies. The presentations were alternated with different other presentations by ENCORD members and external guests and a workshop on metrics for BIM in construction companies.

For this meeting we invited four external guests:
- Osome with a presentation about the state of the art of laser scanning and its use in construction companies;
- Solibri with a presentation about an update of their Solibri software, a presentation about the COBie standard for Facility Management and a presentation about the COBIM 2012 standard used in Finland;
- Gehry Technologies with a presentation about the way they are using BIM in complex architectural and complex process projects;
- Dimensys from the Netherlands with a presentation about “Cloud Computing” and the possibilities for construction companies and BIM with these technologies.

 The ENCORD VCP members presented about their internal Best Practices and in addition to that the following presentations and discussions:
- Bouygues on the openINFRA initiatives. The ENCORD VCP group decided that it was necessary to start a number of webmeetings for the ENCORD VCP members in which the openINFRA topics are being discussed in more detail;
- Ballast Nedam presented about the Dutch Data Dictionairy naming convention initiative;
- CCC presented about the latest work of the 5D initiative and the software vendor workshop that was held in October of this year;
- Ballast Nedam presented about two main international BIM events in Qatar (BIMSummit 2012 in Doha) and the US (BIMForum 2012 in Tacoma) 

Finally the ENCORD VCP group and available guests participated in a workshop were in four smaller groups the following questions were answered regarding ROI/Metrics in BIM:
- Why Metrics?
- What do you measure?
- Are there any known metrics references / frameworks?
- Can we already report on successes?

The agenda for the next meeting will include:
- Waste Measurement Protocol V5 to include waste CO2e conversion factors
- Experience of Measuring Waste and Carbon (Skanska to present on waste and carbon and FCC on Waste)
- BIM and Waste Reduction and embodied CO2e (Skanska to present case study on embodied CO2e and BIM, BAM to present case study on BIM and waste reduction at Leeds Arena)
- Water