About CCI

CCI is the flagship centre for Rethinking Construction in the North West and the main hub for innovation and change in the Northwest’s built environment sector.  Established in 1999, CCI has an excellent track record in exchanging, demonstrating and implementing best practice; promoting and managing cultural change; and, ultimately, delivering a safe, sustainable and continuously improving built environment sector.  Its team of over 30 experienced and accomplished Project Managers, Directors and Administrators works closely with and for public, private and third-sector bodies throughout the Northwest and the United Kingdom, delivering improvements in procurement, collaborative working, leadership and management, construction and the built environment.  It offers one-to-one business assists and consultancy, performance measurement and reviews, action learning, training, best practice clubs, networking events, 3-D visualisation, space for events and meetings, and various other services.  It also manages and/or delivers major improvement programmes and projects, including

• NWDA's Northwest Construction Knowledge Hub – helping small and medium-sized enterprises to be more productive, more efficient and environmentally friendly
• NWDA's Sustainable Buildings Northwest
• ConstructionSkills' Women and Work: Sector Pathways Initiative.

 About CUBE

CUBE is one of Europe's most exciting art, architecture and design centres, dedicated to broadcasting the ideas and issues that lie behind the buildings, spaces and cultural networks that make up our built environment.  CUBE delivers exhibitions of international merit, such as the award winning Co-evolution (from the Danish Architecture Centre), Alan Fletcher: Fifty Years of Graphic Work and Play (from the Design Museum) and Shrinking Cities (from Berlin).

As well as gallery-based activity, CUBE works with artists, architects and designers on the development and realisation of temporary and permanent public artworks including:

• Flailing Trees with Gustav Metzger, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Manchester International Festival and the Whitworth Art Gallery
• How Yellow is Manchester?, a new commission for the Building Initiative (Berlin)
• Street Training, a new commission for London-based artist Lottie Child
• Iconic Site, a new commission of work by artist/architect duo Sans Façon
• Take Away Garden, a new commission for Manchester-based artist Jason Minsky and architect Stefan White.

www.cube.org.uk

Interested in hiring gallery space or meeting rooms within the Cube Building?  Please visit

http://www.cube.org.uk/hire/21186