Martin Perks

Reading time: 3 minutes Here's something that's causing real confusion in infrastructure right now. Two terms are now mandatory, or close to it. The Green Book talks about Value for Money. PAS 4010 requires a System for Productivity Management. And most people think they're the same thing. They're not. And understanding the difference changes everything about how you structure your contracts and your teams. Value for Money is About the Decision to Invest Let's start here. Value for Money...

Reading time: 3 minutes In two months, PAS 4010 is published. The Department for Transport and the ICE's Infrastructure Client Group have made it clear: expectations around productivity in regulated UK infrastructure are about to shift. Most asset owners maybe treating this as compliance overhead. Fill in the spreadsheet. Tick the box. Move on. They're about to find themselves on the wrong side of the timing curve. The Problem: Mistaking a Map for a Form PAS 4010 (Productivity in...

Collaborative delivery models only work when everyone is looking at the same trustworthy set of numbers. Assurance is not a bolt-on to the integrated client. It is the connective tissue. The way infrastructure has traditionally been bought and delivered is, in the blunt words of the Institution of Civil Engineers' Project 13 work, broken. The transactional model piles up interfaces and hand-offs and pushes risk down the chain rather than sharing it. Everyone protects their own position, and...