Beyond infrastructure: How can water companies prioritise social value over lowest cost in a period of capital project delivery?

As the water industry ramp up to deliver the biggest AMP, ensuring major projects look beyond cost is critical. The way the water industry designs, builds, maintains and procures assets must change giving weight to lower carbon options, social value, nature and whole life cost. How can the water industry deliver genuine social value in AMP8 and beyond? 

Discussion points: 

• How can the industry create standards to better quantify social and environmental values when procuring projects?How can asset owners better work with the supply chain to encourage innovation and new ways of working? 
• How can the industry take learnings from the Construction Value Tool Kit and similar initiatives to change the way the sector perceives value? 

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