Avanti Construction

Avanti was a project established by the Department of Trade and Industry for an approach to collaborative working in order to enable construction project partners to work together effectively. The project was promoted by the UK Department of Trade and Industry, with the support of most of the largest UK firms in the construction industry: Asite, Atkins, Balfour Beatty; BSRIA , Building Design Partnership, Capita Symonds, Carillion, Costain, Davis Langdon, Halcrow, Laing O’Rourke, Reid Architecture, Taylor Woodrow, Whitby Bird, Zisman Bowyer & Partners.

Avanti focused on early access to all project information by all partners, on early involvement of the supply chain, and on sharing of information, drawings and schedules, in an agreed and consistent manner. The Avanti approach was supported by handbooks, toolkits and on-site mentoring and relied heavily on the advice and materials provided by CPIC.

Avanti mobilised existing enabling technologies in order to improve business performance by increasing quality of information and predictability of outcomes and by reducing risk and waste. The core of the Avanti approach to a project's whole life cycle was based on team working and access to a common information model.

In July 2006, the Avanti DTI Project documentation and brand ownership was transferred to Constructing Excellence. Since the handover, Constructing Excellence endeavoured to promote the savings demonstrated on live projects. Further work was also carried out to make Avanti part of the update of BS 1192. The BS 5555 committee coded the methods.

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