DBF leading the way in the twenty-first century

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(2001), "DBF leading the way in the twenty-first century", Facilities, Vol. 19 No. 1/2. https://doi.org/10.1108/f.2001.06919aab.015

DBF leading the way in the twenty-first century

DBF leading the way in the twenty-first century

Keywords: Architecture, Training, Design

The Design Build Foundation has joined forces with Henley Management College to launch a programme which will shape the construction industry leaders of the future.

This exciting new initiative, called Project Team Leadership, will help ensure that high flying managers concerned with the construction of the built environment will have the necessary business management skills and behavioural attitudes to take our industry forward, maintaining its position as a world leader.

Clients, architects, cost managers, project managers, contractors and specialist suppliers will all benefit from working together in multi-disciplinary teams, using the business school approach of advanced problem solving and case studies.

Designed around six residential modules at Henley over 18 months, in conjunction with distance learning and assignments, successful candidates will be awarded the DBF Diploma in Project Team Leadership and be exempt from Part 1 of Henley's MBA.

Entry to the Project Team Leadership programme, to be managed by Henley, will include a comprehensive assessment process to identify key competencies, abilities and skills coupled with a leadership behaviour analysis.

The development of the Project Team Leadership programme has been supported by the Wates Foundation to the tune of £25,000 and the new approach has gained the wide support of both the industry and CITB, which has also become a founding sponsor, pledging a further £25,000.

Both Gensler and Try Construction Group are also giving board level consideration to becoming commercial sponsors of the new DBF Project Team Leadership programme.

Chief Executive of CITB, Peter Lobban, said "supply chain integration is absolutely critical if we are able to achieve the cultural change envisaged by Sir John Egan in his report 'rethinking construction'. The Project Team Leadership programme will make a major contribution to achieving these goals".

Sir Martin Berthoud of the Wates Foundation said "we are particularly attracted by the multidisciplinary nature of the programme and the contribution it can make towards the achievement of our aims in the area of urban renewal".

Tony Giddings, director of Argent Group and who will take over as chairman of DBF, said "we think it's the DB's! It is not until all members of the team have the same objectives that we can ever have success on projects. The new Project Team Leadership programme is critical to achieving common shared objectives".

The Design Build Foundation was formed in 1997 with the specific objective to promote and improve the integration of design and construction to deliver customer satisfaction through a single-source of responsibility.

The DBF has over 75 company members, including blue-chip clients, architects, cost managers, project managers, designers, contractors and specialist suppliers. The combined interests of DBF members is representative of over 20 per cent of the construction industry's current workload of almost £70 billion per annum.

For further information please contact Terry Bilsbrough, Director, NG Bailey & Co. Ltd. Tel: +44 (0) 113 234 3443, or Graham Robinson, Head of Management Consulting, Gleeds, Tel: +44 (0) 207 432 3673, or Barry Holmes, Director-General, DBF +44 (0) 118 931 8190.