The paper describes the adoption of new SME friendly collaborative procurement processes in Wales and reports on some early successes. In 2012 the Welsh Government commissioned a team to research how SMEs could collaborate to access larger public sector contracts. This led to the publication of the new Joint Bidding Guide in 2013. The Guide leads both the selling and buying side through the procurement process ensuring joint bids are assessed in a fair and transparent manner. In 2014 the team was commissioned by the Welsh Government to advise leading procurement professionals in Wales on the adoption of the new Guide and map progress on up to 12 demonstration projects. The demonstration projects total more than €200 million in value.

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pity that the high standard of management and execution of structural work on the site that is evident elsewhere has not been achieved in Britain. 44.Much of what has been said above obviously relates to steelwork as a structural medium, commonly so in large-scale plants, but it applies equally to concrete structures, which in many applications are eminently satisfactory. In all cases the aesthetics of the structural outline are already becoming a constant demand on the engineer. Yet only a limited number of structural engineers have a flair for good proportions, and it might reasonably be that this should be part of a structural engineer's training, for it cannot always with advantage be separately handled by the architect.The Paper, which was received on 18 January, 1961, is accompanied by nine photographs, from some of which the half-tone page plates have been prepared. DiscussionMr R. M. Wynne-Edwards (Managing Director, Constructors, John Brown Ltd), agreeing that the architect-engineer was a splendid ideal but no longer practicable, said that those who aspired to climb high in their professions ought to keep their minds broad enough and their visions wide enough to comprehend what the other skills were trying to do and to make use of them all. It was true, for example, that the building of a nuclear power station was an extremely complex matter. The same was obviously true of more mundane buildings such as hospitals which were 50% mechanical engineering.46. Much more use could be made of models. For example, a three-dimensional model could show every floor of a hospital and how the services fitted in. Such models were not clad but showed the interiors of the buildings and on a model it should be possible to pull out any floor and re-arrange it. The Building Research Station WaS developing techniques in the use of models, and much planning could be done more quickly from such models than from drawings. 47. Thought should continuously be given to the subject of what required homing.h4r Atkins had mentioned the Fine Art Commission. There was no reason why the Fine Art Commission should not be broad-minded enough to see a structure as it Saw a bridge-in its simple functional form. It should be unnecessary to put it in a box. Refineries, for example, were spread over large areas of ground largely because of the danger of fire but also because the industries concerned were always adding to them.But reheries were almost entirely unclad. Architects) observed that whereas Mr Lobb's Paper covered the wide or human aspect of the subject, Mr Atkin's Paper had been far more down-to-earth and practical in detail. These two aspects showed the significant difference between the architect's and the engineer's approaches. Obviously, those aspects were not in conflict but were complementary. Nowadays there was rightly much talk about collaboration, but these could be no return to that wonderful person who used to combine the functions of architect and engineer. The comple-ities were far too great for that, and the main aim m...

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