Find below some information on the life within ENCORD – workshops, Council meetings, etc. Enjoy your look around!

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 ENCORD Virtual Construction Platform (VCP) met in Helsinki, hosted by SKANSKA for their 25th meeting on 15 and 16 April 2013. Well over 20 participants from 15 member companies joined the meeting.

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.

On the 19^th and 20^th of March 2013 lean Construction Experts from ENCORD companies and Vinci Paris met at the head office and the Louis Vuitton construction site in Paris.

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 February 2013 ENCORD Council meeting was held on 25-26 February 2013 in Marseille, France, hosted by Vinci. 20 participants from 15 member companies attended the meeting.

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Experts from ENCORD member companies met on 12nd February  2013, hosted by BAM in London, UK: 

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: Read the rest of this entry »

After four very active years, Dr. Jens-Peter Grunau will end his ENCORD activities as General Secretary, because he has taken a new position within the Züblin/Strabag SE Group.
As ENCORD President and in the name of the Council I wish to thank him for his outstanding work and the excellent teamwork and leadership.

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 November 2012 ENCORD Council meeting was held on 12-13 November 2012 in Paris, France, hosted by Bouygues. 20 participants from 16 member companies attended the meeting.

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The ENCORD Virtual Construction Platform met for their twenty-fourth meeting on 15 and 16 October 2012 in Madrid, Spain. The workshop was organized by Acciona.

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

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Experts from ENCORD member companies met on 9th October 2012, hosted by Acciona at their R&D Technological Centre in Madrid to discuss:
- the work on the ENCORD Waste Measurement Protocol,
- the CO2e emissions factors proposal being discussed with WRAP in the UK as a possible addition to the ENCORD CO2e Protocol,
- Experience of Measuring Waste and Carbon with best practice presentation by Acciona and Uponor,
- Communication Strategy for ENCORD CO2e Protocol Communication
- Memorandum of Understanding with European GBC
- BIM and Waste Reduction and embodied CO2e

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On 25 and 26 September 2012 Lean Construction Experts from ENCORD companies met at the factory of Joseph Vögele AG in Ludwigshafen Germany in an ENCORD Lean construction workshop.

Topics of the meeting included:
- An introduction to the factory of Joseph Vögle.
- A short review of the workshop in London.
- A presentation to come to a protocol to develop the value of lean construction.
- A presentation of the history of STRABAG BPM and their Lean implementation
- A presentation of the lean process of Hilti
- A presentation by Taylor Woodrow of Victoria station now in September 2012 seen more from the contractor’s site of view.
- Best practice presentation by Hochtief, CCC, Balfour Beatty and BAM Germany
- A presentation to explain the flow of the production in the manufacturing process of Vögle.
- A site in the factories of Joseph Vögle.
- A best practice presentation by YIT

Next meeting: The group will meet again in Paris in March 2013 and hosted by Vinci Construction France. Topics of the meeting will include:
- Customer needs and –satisfaction.
- Lean in the design phase/process.
- A short review of this meeting and summary of the results
- More about the protocol the value of lean construction

The ENCORD Health and Safety working group met 25-26 September 2012 in Doha, Qatar, hosted by Consolidated Contractors Group S.A.L (CCC).

The meeting included:
-  Welcome by the General Manager of CCC in Doha
-  Introduction to the CCC tools “VBC Dashboard” and “Falcon” that were developed inhouse to manage knowledge and to control and optimize operation. Both tools also contribute to improve the H&S performance.
-  a presentation on “Relationship Between Construction and HSE that provided an overview of the development of HS&E in the construction sector over the last decades, starting from HS&E being an almost non existing topic to it playing an essential role on any major construction site in the Middle East. The presentation ended with an extensive and comprehensive set of recommendations to make HSE effective
-  a presentation on “Managing HSE on mega size projects”, like the projects our host CCC is working on in the Middle East. The presentation was given by a CCC Project HSE Manager and thus also the knowledge of many years of site experience.
-  presentations of participant’s H&S data according to the ENCORD KPI guide
-  best practice presentations by Hochtief, Royal Bam, Balfour Beatty and Bilfinger.

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The June 2012 ENCORD Council meeting was held on 11 June 2012 in Madrid, Spain, hosted by OHL Construcción. 21 participants from 15 member companies attended the meeting.

The meeting included:
- an introduction to the RDI activities of the host OHL Construcción
- a review of the ENCORD Environmental group meeting May 2012
- an update on the launch of the ENCORD CO2e protocol as globally recognized standard.
- a summary of the ENCORD Virtual Construction Platform meeting April 2012 and the activities of the activities of the ENCORD 5Dinitiative
- a review of the ENCORD Lean Workshop March 2012
- a summary of the ENCORD Health & Safety Workshop March 2012
- a report on the progress of the reFINE (Research for Future Infrastructure Networks in Europe) initiative, that has strong participation and leadership from ENCORD members.
- an overview of upcoming events,
- a summary of the presentation of ENCORD President Ger Maas at the Fourth Transport Research Arena, TRA 2012 in April 2012 in Athens
- a review of the Lake Constance 5D-Conference 2012
- Best Practice exchange on member companies RDI approaches
- A Site Visit with a focus on the numerous innovative construction approaches to the new Torre Espacio tower, located on the former Real Madrid Training Ground.

Thank you
ENCORD would like to thank the host Miguel Amérigo, Head of R&D and Innovation at OHL Construcción for hosting this excellent meeting.

A CO2e protocol assisting construction companies around the world to measure and report their carbon emissions has been launched by the European construction industry.

The CO2e protocol was developed by the members of ENCORD – the European Network of Construction Companies for Research and Development – assisted by partners from like-minded worldwide construction organisations. It details the method to be used for measuring the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of an organisation within the construction sector. The protocol uses best practice and will ultimately encourage and enable the next steps for reducing carbon emissions from construction processes to be taken.
It represents over two years of collaborative work by some of the largest construction companies in the world.
The launch comes ahead of governments and businesses from around the world meeting in Rio for The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), 20-22 June 2012.
President of ENCORD, Prof. Ger Maas, points out, ‘It is some credit to the construction sector that Read the rest of this entry »

The ENCORD Environmental group met 22 May 2012, hosted by BAM UK. Topics of the meeting included:
- Key changes to the CO2 measurement Protocol document,
- CO2e Next Steps: The group will work on expanding the guidance on scope three within the ENCORD CO2e Measurement Protocol in close contact with WRI,
- Best practice: Companies shared best practice approaches, e.g. a CO2e reporting Web tool used by NCC to cover their business areas. It imports data from centrally sourced data (Electricity bills, District heat used, Diesel),
- Waste Measurement Protocol: Discussion on the latest version of the ENCORD Waste Measurement guidance document,
- Experience of measuring waste in accordance with the protocol, to include a presentation of the BAM SMaRT system.

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The ENCORD Virtual Construction Platform (VCP) met for their twenty-third meeting on 16 and 17 April 2012 in Bunnik, The Netherlands. The workshop was hosted by Royal BAM Group.

The main theme of the meeting was the definition of five new knowledge exchange topics for the ENCORD VCP meetings in the next three years (2012 – 2015). The new topics were based on: progress review, updates on several R&D projects and Best Practices. The discussion about future topics also included a look back into the ENCORD VCP past: Since starting in 2000, the group covered many aspects related to BIM: Roadmapping, Infrastructure, Model Based Estimation, Progress Monitoring, Client Interaction, PLM Systems, Standardization, Energy Simulations, Virtual Reality techniques, Field BIM, BIM for Operation & Maintenance, Internal Organization & Procedures, etc.

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