Mike Fairey, Managing Director of Fusion Steel Framing, highlights the value of developing a more synergetic approach to the supply chain in a bid to optimise delivery performance.
When we talk about the supply chain, we often think in terms of individual disciplines and building components, each with its own objective and purpose. Great results rely on collaboration – not only between the client and contractor, or specifier and manufacturer, but amongst all parties at every stage of the project delivery process.
Project success lies not only in what has gone well, but in identifying and mitigating risks along the way. Right now, the construction industry is facing more challenges than ever before. Labour shortages, rising energy costs, and instability within the supply chain are causing many to reconsider the best routes for avoiding risk and costly programme delays or wildly escalating costs.
Our ethos at Fusion has always been one of collaboration, this starts at project conception. As leaders in light steel framing solutions, we put more than twenty years of knowledge and experience into creating our five-step construction process. Synergy between our team and the people we work with is key to yielding the best results –focusing on the concept that the combined value and performance of several companies will be greater than the sum of the separate individual parts.
Right from the start, we enable a culture of support and guidance that allows us to maximise the project's potential. We offer advice during tendering which, once the project is won, leads to estimating and pre-construction support. So, we know even before Stage One, what the goals are and can help find the best and most cost-effective solution. When construction professionals work with us, they have the reassurance of experienced hands to take them from design and planning all the way to manufacture and installation.
In times of economic instability, we cannot underestimate the value of providing predictability and certainty – whether in material costs, product performance, or delivery times. A broken link in the chain can cause a pile-up of obstacles that can devastate a project's chance of on-time and on-budget completion. We understand the importance of ownership and establishing open communication channels. Our success is the success of our supply partners and vice versa.
While the supply chain involves many elements, synergy lies in bringing the sum of the parts together to achieve construction objectives. I think people often make the mistake of thinking that streamlining is about cutting back. Rather, it's about having that singular driving force to bring all those components into one place – this is Fusion FOCUS™. By being involved collaboratively throughout the supply chain process, visibility and traceability improve dramatically, enabling us to identify opportunities for optimisation and improvement at the right time and avoid complications further down the line. When you build robust relationships throughout the supply chain, utilising the benefits of each party's knowledge, the potential value of the total project is increased. That is what we bring to the table through our five-step Fusion FOCUS™ process.
Through taking ownership of every building component, we have created an industry-leading solution in our through-wall FusionX™ system which, when combined with the Fusion Xterion™ cladding range, offers a complete integrated system with precise value-engineering and tried and tested performance.
We aim to be the supply chain partner of choice for light steel frame buildings, engaging early with projects to achieve client goals through a fabric-first approach, partnerships with our experienced specialists, and expert technical support. Over the years, we have established a demonstrable track record of delivering high-performance steel frame solutions across the UK. Ensuring a well-established end-to-end supply chain process plays a big part in that success.
For more information visit: www.fusionsteelframing.co.uk
