We’re at the end of the second year of Acorn’s involvement in supporting the Repository Asset Care Enhancements and Remediation (RACER) programme for Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) and there’s plenty of positive progress to report.
Acorn’s experience of working with joint ventures and bid winning teams spans over 20-years and stems back to our early involvement within PFI’s across sectors like rail, construction and defence. More recently we have worked within the UK’s nuclear sector, helping companies with various bids for Sellafield.
Update on the Sellafield HAWTT Programme Since being appointed in Q4 2021 to support the Higher Active Waste Thermal Treatment (HAWTT) programme, good progress has been made with the joint venture teams commissioned to deliver the objectives of Tranche 1 (PCM) and Tranche 2 (sludge). To recap, in its strategy published in March 2021, the…
The Cambridge Dictionary defines collaboration as ‘the situation of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing’. In this feature we discuss what collaboration means in terms of output – rather than process – and offer ten things we consider useful to hold in mind when creating any collaboration.
Despite the economic recovery now becoming mature, and many sectors being finally ‘on the up’, the economic pressure on projects is ever present, with tighter margins and an increased need to deliver the product on time and within budget. Project performance is equally if not more critical than it was several years ago.
Acorn’s 20 years of experience of working with complex projects within the construction and infrastructure business leads us to believe there to be three key issues that impact project success.