Social Value: Overview

Revision as of 15:32, 25 January 2021

Social value is defined by the Sustainable Procurement Taskforce as: ‘A process whereby organisations meet their needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a whole life basis in terms of generating benefits not only to the organisation, but also to society and the economy, whilst minimising damage to the environment.’

Useful resources include:

• Building Social Value (Considerate Constructors Scheme)
• Can Do Toolkits
• Construction Social Value Steering Group
• Creating Social Value from Civil Engineering Projects (ICE)
• Delivering Social Value: Measurement (UKGBC)
• From the Ground Up - Improving the Delivery of Social Value in Construction (IED)
• Maximising Social Value from Infrastructure Projects (ICE/Useful Projects)
• Optimising diversity of supply base (Liz Holford)
• Social value (Supply Chain Sustainability School)
• Social Value Act
• Social Value and Design of the Built Environment (Supply Chain Sustainability School)
• Social Value: Delivering Beyond Cost (Scape)
• Social Value - Underpinning Our Future Legacy (Mace)
• Social Value Toolkit for Architecture (RIBA)
• [UNIQID Supporting our communities] (BPF)
• What is social value and how to plan it? (Supply Chain Development)
• Reimagining infrastructure in the United States: How to build better (McKinsey & Company)

Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki

• Building social value.
• Corporate social responsibility in construction.
• Creating social value from civil engineering projects.
• Social sustainability.
• Social value: Gearing up for giving back.
• Social Value Act.
• Social value and design of the built environment.
• Social value in new development.
• What is social value.