Urban Construction Consolidation Centre

建筑整合中心（CCC）旨在促进建筑材料通过供应链有效地流动到工地的工作面。城市CCC （UCCC）将提高建筑工地的性能，减少对环境问题的影响，如拥堵、污染和浪费。建筑材料，较少的散装物品，如骨料，将被交付到UCCC，在那里它们被形成工作包，由不同的承包商定义，并按照“准时”标准交付到工作面。该过程将多个部件负载合并为单个交付，因此减少了车辆到现场的移动。在这个过程中，不必要的包装被去除以进行再利用或回收。物料处理人员将提取所有未使用的物料，管理和减少浪费，并最大限度地重复利用。在英国，由于运营需要（空间、车辆移动减少和控制），施工整合只在伦敦和希思罗机场使用，而且主要是项目特定的和临时性的。在建筑业没有这些要求的地方，承包商选择回归到传统的、效率较低的供应链模式，从而对环境和社区产生负面影响。该项目的新颖之处在于设计和运营一个半永久性的UCCC，该UCCC跨越多个项目，具有不同的开始和结束日期，为当地建筑工地提供“按顺序”的供应选择，除了节省运营成本外，还针对拥堵和环境效益。

A Construction Consolidation Centre (CCC) aims to promote the efficient flow of construction materials through the supply chain to the work face on site. The Urban CCC (UCCC) would enhance performance of the construction site and reduce the impact on environmental issues such as congestion, pollution, and waste. Construction material, less bulk items such as aggregates, would be delivered to the UCCC, where they are formed into work packs, defined by the various contractors, and delivered to the work face, using 'just-in-time' criteria. This process combines (consolidates) multiple part loads into single deliveries and, hence, reduces vehicle movements to site. In this process, unnecessary packaging is removed for re-use or recycling. The material handlers will extract all unused material, manage and reduce waste, and maximise re-use. In the UK, construction consolidation has only been used in London and at Heathrow due to operational necessity (space, vehicle movement reduction and control), and which are largely project specific and temporary in nature. Where construction has not had those imperatives, contractors have chosen to revert to traditional, less efficient supply chain models with consequent negative impacts on the environment and community.The novelty of this project is in the design and operation of a semi-permanent UCCC spanning multiple projects with different start and end dates, providing a 'just-in-sequence' supply option to local construction sites, which targets congestion and environmental benefits in addition to operational savings.