How:

Programmatic Pipeline Delivery

Following the recommendations in chapters one and two of the Construction Playbook, contracting authorities are adopting the principles of ‘Pipelines, Portfolios and Longer Term Contracting’ and ‘Harmonise, Rationalise, Digitise', such as the Ministry of Justice’s New Prison Programme (NPP) and the NHS New Hospital Programme (NHP).

Industrialised construction is best suited to specific projects of scale or an aggregated demand across multiple projects. This enables a platform-based approach, and we are demonstrably improving performance by using consistent designs and processes.

Repeatable processes are not just in relation to the construction partner. The real benefit of industrialisation is that every stakeholder can repeat their internal and external processes across the project lifecycle. The same processes can then be applied across the wider programme or pipeline.

The New Hospital Programme has combined projects into a programmatic delivery approach to maximise industrialised construction.

_{L-R Hannah Coffey, Chief Executive of North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Hinchingbrooke Hospital; Karin Smyth MP, Health and Social Care Minister; Stuart Togwell, CEO, Kier Group}

Industrialised construction is about more than how components are made. It applies repeatable processes across the whole project lifecycle, from procurement and contract management to design development and change management. This repeatability extends through component manufacture, delivery and assembly to handover and ongoing facilities management.

This enables:

Programmatic Pipeline Delivery

Industrialised Construction enables consistent delivery, repeatable processes and programme-wide improvement.

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New Prison Programme:

Custodial Kit of Parts

The programmatic pipeline has enabled us to develop a repeatable approach. This combines our custodial kit-of-parts with standard systems, processes and methods for construction and bringing facilities into operation.

Kier took our processes and industrialised them, helping to create a truly efficient catalogue of protocols for the future pipeline.

Raj Singh OBE, Senior Project Sponsor, MoJ (HMP Millsike, New Prisons Programme)