9-10 October, 2007

Copenhagen, Denmark

The international conference Revaluing Construction 2007 - Crossing Boundaries will explore how construction firms will meet the challenges of the 21st century through overcoming the barriers that currently limit performance. International speakers from industry, governments and research will show how innovation in management, marketing and technology will enable construction to create greater value for client and users and to be valued by its contribution to the quality of life.

The conference will take place at the Copenhagen Marriott Hotel on 9th and 10th October 2007. It will build upon the success of the two previous Revaluing Construction events sponsored by the International Council for Research and Innovation in Construction (CIB), in Manchester (2003) and Rotterdam (2005). These showed that there is a world-wide search for improved performance in construction, with clients being prominent in programmes aimed at achieving greater value from construction expenditures.

Revaluing Construction 2007 - Crossing Boundaries will particularly take up the call from the second conference for clients to become drivers of change in construction. It will show to all engaged in construction reform programmes, and to the research community, that integration across multiple boundaries is one of the most powerful means of improving both the internal performance and external perceptions of the construction industry. Hence its title: "Revaluing Construction 2007 - Crossing Boundaries".

The conference themes will include:

Crossing geographical boundaries - how clients and their suppliers can learn from new ways of working developed in other countries

Crossing organisational boundaries - overcoming traditional divisions to enhance project performance

Crossing product boundaries - exploiting new technological developments to raise competitiveness and offer new forms of construction.

These will be developed by invited speakers in the plenary and parallel sessions, as shown in the provisional structure for the conference.

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Posted by pichu at October 9, 2007 4:18 PM