Blogs

Five months on from Professor David Mosey’s ‘Constructing the Gold Standard’ report, I meet Claire Bailey-Jones, head of business development from Novus Property Solutions – a supplier with which LHC Group has a longstanding working relationship – to discuss the key lessons the sector can learn to make tangible, practical differences.

On the 27th of June 2019, the government declared the net zero emissions law. This required the UK to reduce carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 and achieve net zero by 2050. However, for this to happen, significant changes must be made. For example, in their heat and building strategy, the government has outlined that they require high-efficiency, low-carbon buildings to help meet their target.

It is often said that if you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism. Whilst this quip might be true, it suggests that the task of designing suitable environments for people with autism is extremely challenging. Improving the accessibility of our entire built environment for people with PDD is ultimately the end goal, but we need to focus primarily on the first environment an individual experiences outside of the home, school.

The need for new housing has never been greater and with the Government aiming to deliver 300,000 new homes per year by mid-2020’s there needs to be a radical change in the way new homes are built. There’s some consensus around increasing housing supply to address the backlog of housing need, but there’s less agreement about how best to achieve it.

This month, we caught up with Julia Cooke, Client Support Manager at CPC to find out about her role, why she loves working with public sector customers and what projects she is most proud of.

This month, we caught up with Conan McKinley, director of asset & building safety for Your Housing Group, to ask him about his role and the challenges facing asset managers working in the housing sector today.

Based across the North West, Your Housing Group is one of the UK’s largest housing providers, managing more than 28,000 homes ranging from affordable social housing through to shared ownership and private rent.

The statistics are bleak, we need to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century to keep the global temperature below 1.5°C to avoid the worst consequences of the biological and ecological crises.  

At the end of last year, Professor David Mosey published his independent review of public sector construction frameworks, titled ‘Constructing the Gold Standard’, on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

The review was commissioned following the publication of the Construction Playbook which sets out key policies and guidance on how public works projects and programmes are assessed, procured and delivered.

If you’re looking for an architect, surveyor, project manager or engineer for your public sector project, our new Multi-Disciplinary Consultancy Services (MDC1) Framework is designed for you.

Last month, we launched our Multi-Disciplinary Consultancy Services (MDC1) Framework, developed to offer an efficient, value for money procurement route for local authorities, registered social landlords, councils, boards, and trusts, and other public sector bodies.