Actions to take forward

Adopt Construction Playbook and apply good practices:

• Develop a programme of joint public and private sector workshops to increase knowledge and understanding of the Playbook;

• Apply the Playbook to all public sector projects and programmes over an agreed value;

• Monitor the performance of projects where the Playbook applies and report findings;

• Encourage the application of the Playbook principles to all public sector projects and programmes of work.

Explore and seek to adopt the Value Toolkit to better define value criteria:

• Identify pilot projects to test the Toolkit;

• Develop training exercises, based on the pilot project findings to extend understanding across public sector.

Apply risk management practices which support collaboration and risk sharing:

• Develop programme of joint public and private sector workshops to increase knowledge and understanding of the value of collaboration and risk sharing;

• Produce risk registers for all large projects and programmes of work and include in tender documentation;

• Assess supplier mitigation plans as part of tendering process;

• Allocate risks clearly along with mitigation plans for clients and suppliers ahead of contract awards;

• Review performance of projects where risks have been actively shared and report findings and lesson learnt.

Use social value requirements to support more people into the industry:

• support businesses to offer more apprenticeships and work experience opportunities;

• increase the involvement of businesses in curriculum activities at schools and colleges;

Develop a collaborative public/private sector social value model to:

• Develop resources to support businesses to deliver parts of the curriculum;

• Increase engagement with exservices personnel and ex-offenders to facilitate their employment across the industry.

Exploit benefits of increased digitisation:

• Identify and assess projects which have featured elements of digitisation during development;

• Develop models to justify greater investment in digital tools across the public sector;

• Develop programme of joint public and private sector workshops to increase knowledge and understanding of the value of digitisation in the construction sector.

Increase collaboration on carbon management:

• Agree a standard Net Zero carbon definition to drive consistency of approach to carbon management across public and private sector partners;

• Develop programme of joint public and private sector workshops to increase knowledge and understanding of the value of carbon management and how to measure and report performance;

• Ensure earlier supply chain engagement on all large projects and smaller programmes of work to unlock lower carbon solutions;

• Monitor and report the carbon performance of suppliers and reward better performers with more work.