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First, congratulations on your new appointment which is long overdue, particularly as it was more than 16 months ago that the House of Commons Business and Enterprise Committee recommended – in Constructing Matters (PDF) – the “creation of a post of Chief Construction Officer”.

Open letter to the new Chief Construction Adviser « pwcom 2.0 2009

Goebel's in Constructing China or in "Kafka and the East: The Case for Cultural Construction," or in

Notes on 'Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites' 2007

It referred to a "controversial study" entitled Constructing a Political Europe, apparently arguing that the European Union was in crisis and can be saved only by turning it into a fully fledged "political union", with a European tax, minimum wage and pan-European political parties

Building a political Europe Richard 2004

And this home may have its windows and doors boarded shut, but the plan is to soon renew it, thanks to a new Jackson County program called Constructing Futures.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

And this home may have its windows and doors boarded shut, but the plan is to soon renew it, thanks to a new Jackson County program called Constructing Futures.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

And this home may have its windows and doors boarded shut, but the plan is to soon renew it, thanks to a new Jackson County program called Constructing Futures.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

And this home may have its windows and doors boarded shut, but the plan is to soon renew it, thanks to a new Jackson County program called Constructing Futures.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

Finally, industry organisations such as Constructing Excellence, the Strategic Forum for Construction and professional bodies should be promoting collaboration – and Web 2.0 as part of its support mechanism – as a key component of truly environmentally, socially and economically sustainable construction.

Let’s make construction more ’social’ « pwcom 2.0 2009

There is also, perhaps, an opportunity for existing organisations (such as Constructing Excellence) to contribute their case study resources and help populate BSD’s wiki with a strong cross-section of recent and ongoing projects.

A welcome wiki « pwcom 2.0 2009

Sadly, the current recession is – despite the best efforts of progressive membership organisations such as Constructing Excellence – likely to see many construction organisations revert to type (to use Don Ward’s phrase) rather than embrace collaboration.

Cultivating collaboration « pwcom 2.0 2009