Founded by BRE, the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) and Centre for Digital Built Britain, the Construction Innovation Hub has collaborated with hundreds of industry bodies, policy makers, practitioners and academics to drive innovation throughout construction, addressing the sector’s performance and productivity challenges.
Building the CIH legacy
The CIH's vision is for a world where our built environment improves quality of life, delivers greater social value, reduces environmental impact and is delivered by a world-leading, innovative and sustainable industry.
LMC was appointed in 2022 to promote CIH’s legacy from its assurance and digital workstreams, starting with the LEXiCON methodology which was already close to being published and at testing phase with early adopters.
LEXiCON is designed to provide the construction industry with a plain language dictionary to share product data consistently so it can be standardised for BIM and support creation of machine-readable product specifications.
Other initiatves we promoted included:
- Construction Product Quality Planning (CPQP), which helps construction product and platform manufacturers to improve QA processes
- Verification and Validation, which ensures products meet their performance and quality requirements
- D-COM, which tests designs against regulation, and heralds the introduction of machine-readable Building Regs
- Change Control, designed to provide an audit trail as products and manufacturing methods change and adapt.
Education and thought leadership
We were tasked with using communications to educate the construction sector about manufacturing, its processes and systems in an understandable way, tackle perceptions around technical guidance and tools, and focus on media, in-person and visual storytelling.
Our intensive project included:
- Strategy workshops with all Assurance and Digital activity teams
- Advice and outreach to influential stakeholders
- Copywriting for guidance documents and methodology report
- Multichannel content development
- Speaker presentations for industry events
- Thought leadership articles and case studies
- Building journalist awareness through media releases, reactive comment and briefing opportunities.
Results
"Thank you LMC, the workshops were really valuable in clarifying the strategy and ordering our thoughts."
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LMC is a PR and communications consultancy on a mission to help our clients change the construction, property and built environment sectors for the better.
Using our specialist knowledge and skills, we help clients to achieve their change agenda, building their reputation and profile around the topics that matter most.
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