Ben Derbyshire: Why social value matters

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The immediate past president of the RIBA and chair of HTA Design lends his support to Building Design’s new campaign

I’m greatly encouraged that Building Design has decided to lead a campaign for the use of social value measures in procurement.

Its success is vital to ending the invidious consequences of the simplistic, lazy and sometimes ill-informed procurement processes that are driving quality out of the built environment we are creating for ourselves.

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