SOCIAL VALUE MATTERS

摘要

The need to deliver social value as an additional outcome of a project has become an increasingly familiar feature of contracts in the construction industry. If you are a contractor, client or consultant, it is now more likely than not that you have worked on a scheme that includes a socia value component. Over the past few years this need has been "exponentially increasing", according to Richard Beard, chief executive of social enterprise the Jericho Foundation. "I think the construction industry is embracing social value better than many other sectors of the economy," he added (for the full interview, see opposite).