Winner: Hackney Britannia

Entered by Morgan Sindall

Morgan Sindall wanted social value to be the standout feature when it handed over to Hackney residents this four-storey leisure centre and 1,100-pupil school on the perimeter of Shoreditch Park. To track what each social value measure would generate, the contractor created its own unique social value bank to calculate the value of its economic, social and environmental commitments and the impact in monetary terms.

Morgan Sindall also set internal targets for social value delivery and had a target of 30% of labourers being sourced locally, as well as 25 three-week work placements throughout the project; these aims were achieved. The firm also carried out a trial of cargo bike deliveries to reduce carbon emissions – the first contractor in London to do so – making use of the cycle super-highway adjacent to the project.

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