The Construction Innovation Hub has released its Value Toolkit Overview document as well as a newsletter updating developments.
CIOB is part of a collective of experts from across industry and government that has been helping the hub to develop the toolkit. In June CIOB ran a webinar, Putting the Value Toolkit into Practice.
The aspiration is that the toolkit will enable value-based decision-making focused on driving better social, environmental and economic outcomes, which in turn would improve the industry’s impact on current and future generations.
Ellie Jenkins, Value Toolkit integrated project lead, says it is a powerful exemplar of what collaboration can achieve.
“It is the embodiment of our sector’s ingenuity, innovative nature and a desire to constantly improve the ways in which we work,” she said. “This desire drove voices from across government and industry, including the CIOB, ACE, IPA, CLC, CECA, RIBA, Social Value UK and UKGBC, to work on the development of the toolkit.”
User-friendly process
It has taken 28 months of industry-led technical development to provide a user-friendly process to help close the gap between policy goals and what is happening on the ground.
During a six-month pilot, more than 140 organisations from industry and the public sector trained to test the toolkit across a broad range of projects and programmes, covering both linear and social infrastructure.
Feedback was overwhelmingly positive, said Jenkins. “As we take the next steps to transition the toolkit to a long-term home the collaborative ethos that was the hallmark of the toolkit’s development will be vital.
The hub will be issuing a newsletter detailing developments with the toolkit. To subscribe to this and to view the Value Toolkit Overview visit constructioninnovationhub.org.uk/value-toolkit.
