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The top six remain the same with Arup's 'AgRUP of MEN' and Atkins Asia Pacific's 'Prevail' swapping places as the new order of places 2 and 3. MTR's 'Professional Passionate Engineers' keep top spot and stretch their lead to 32 points from 5, still not a significant gap. MTR's 'Synergy' and MottMac's 'Motts of Steel' and 'Buckingham Palace' hold positions 4, 5 and 6. MottMac are putting in a strong challenge this year. But these top places are not secure only ONE point is keeping Aurecon's 'Invictus' out of the top six. Aurecon have past form as three of their teams have made the final in the past. Also hovering are Atkins Asia Pacific's 'Awesome' , Atkins' 'Methodical Chaos', Universiti Teknologi Malaysia's 'UTM-TEAM', Victoria Roads' 'Vic Roads-MNW' Atkins Asia Pacific's 'Metis', Arup's 'it's all Ova now', MottMac's 'Ronald Mott MacDonald', Aurecon's 'The Aureconquerors' and OST's 'OST Construction Management' all just a smidgen behind the top six. And there are a host of others just two smidgens adrift of the top places.
The largest percentage improvement was McAdam Design's 'The MacAdam Six' with 27% the lowest percentage increase was 2% that is a relative change of 25% which if repeated would bring the top 56 teams into contention for a top six place in ONE round and there are FOUR round to go. These last four rounds will probably see a tightening of the market, jobs more difficult to acquire, falling margins, difficulty in recruiingt the top project managers so the percentage movements in the performance scores is likely to be more variable. For the 'anoraks' amongst us the standard deviation of the improvement % was 5% in Period 8 we'll measure this to see if the performances indeed start to widen. The biggest upwards movement this time was Vinci Construction's 'Da Vinci Code' moving 19 places. There were of course teams going the other's going the other way with 26 places being the biggest drop.
It's still all to play for. Analysis, interpretation, wisdom and courage or confidence will play their part. Good luck.
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In the sponsors award, which goes to the sponsors with the best three performing teams, Mott MacDonald continue to hold the top spot, but Arup have cut the lead down.
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Period 7 of MERIT 2014 continues to see lots of ups and downs in the top positions. While MTR's 'Professional Passionate Engineers' hold onto to top spot, 'Prevail' from Atkins Asia Pacific have swapped with MTR's 'Synergy' into second place, only 5 points behind, and Arup's AgRUP of MEN hold on tight to their third place.
With 5th and 6th now occupied by 'Motts of Steel' and 'Buckingham Palace', and 'MOTTS YPE 2014' also inside the top 10 with a a big 40% improvement, Mott MacDonald are starting to show their intent on taking the MERIT Sponsor's award, and regaining the MERIT most successful sponsors position which they lost to Arup last year.
Others on the move were Aurecon's LVG Construction up 10 places but Aurecon's 'Conquerors' went the other way down 7 places. Hewson's 'Don't Stress Prestress' were up 6 places whereas Hewson Graduates were down 12. There were lots of other moves up and down so there is still all to play for with 5 rounds remaining.
All these ups and downs illustrate that huge gains can be made with the right and usually courageous decisions. How courageous will you be next period?
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An exciting round with lots of movement in both directions. MTR's two teams Professional Passionate Engineers and Synergy continue to hold the top two places and are now equal on points but their lead over the rest is much reduced. Arup's AgRUP of MEN +1 are up to third only 9 points behind. This renews the battle from last year when an Arup team overtook MTR in the last round.
Atkins Asia Pacific's Prevail, Aurecon's Invictus and Mott Mac's Motts of Steel have all advanced to 4th, 5th and 6th. The competition is close with less than 10% separating the top ten and only 10% between position 6 and 39, this is pretty crowded.
Those slipping are Vic Roads, Aurecon's The AureConquerors, Amey's Don't BLAmey and Atkins India's Sigma. A big percentage improvement came from TaylorWoodrow/BAM Nuttal's Victoria's conVINCIng BAMbinos who improved by 38% and moved from position 60 to 41. Looks like they now know what they're doing and may well move up and compete for the top six. Hewson Consulting Engineers' Hewson Graduates improved by 33% and moved to 26th, another team on the move. I think Hewson are new to MERIT and are now starting to threaten for the top places. AECOM's AECOMmanders moving from 22nd to 13th lead the AECOM teams which also hold 15th place as well. They look to be lurking just outside the top six.
How do you summarise that? Dynamic might be the best adjective with lots of movement and changing places with teams moving in both directions. Those improving by more than 30% made the big gains. Lots to play for and the top six will be feeling the pressure. It isn't that easy to defend your place as caution creeps into to your thinking and the more adventurous can overtake. As ever courage in decisions is required. A key factor to watch is how well you are using your company capital, have you got the biggest turnover you can have for the capital in the company? If not it means the capital isn't working as hard as it should.
Looking forward to the next round there will be big changes again, it's all to play for, good luck!