At a webinar hosted by Building last week, I was privileged to announce the beginning of a pivotal phase in the delivery of the landmark Value Toolkit, as we gave early implementers a chance to pilot this new approach that will drive better social, environmental, and economic outcomes from investment in the built environment.

Now, some of you reading this may be rolling your eyes at the use of words like ‘landmark’ or even ‘toolkit’ After all, isn’t our sector already awash with a plethora of tools and toolkits? Do we really need another one? We’ve certainly seen many noteworthy initiatives in recent years to drive much-needed change across a host of areas, from reducing our carbon footprint to modernising building methods, to how we deal with mental health. Whatever name is used – toolkit, framework, platform - each of these initiatives has helped to drive change in their own way. Above all, however, they reflect a growing collective desire to do things differently as we face the increasingly complex challenges created by a post-pandemic world and the economic shockwaves it has wrought.

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