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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.

Seven important changes within the Government’s Transforming Public Procurement Green Paper consultation response

Dean Fazackerley, Head of Technical Procurement, LHC Group

When you think of construction procurement frameworks, what springs to mind?

Are they something used by the largest national contractors bidding to deliver multi-million pound projects? Are they suitable only for organisations that don’t have dedicated purchasing departments? Do frameworks add an extra layer of complication and cost and can you procure suppliers better yourself?

Back in February 2017, the National Audit Office estimated it would cost £6.7 billion to return all school buildings to satisfactory or better condition, and a further £7.1 billion to bring parts of school buildings from satisfactory to good condition.