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Sustainable Training for Sustainable Communities
Sustainable Training for Sustainable Communities, a joint project between The Housing Forum and CITB ConstructionSkills, was launched in 2003 to address the housing sector's skills gap by exploring best practice in a number of Housing Forum Demonstration Projects; establish the business case for investing in workforce training and diverse recruitment; and share learning between projects. The initial key findings from the first year of Sustainable Training for Sustainable Communities were launched at the ODPM Delivering Sustainable Communties summit on the 1st February. The Minister for Construction, Nigel Griffiths launched the findings and was joined by Dennis Lenard, Chief Executive of the Housing Forum and Di Barber, Equality and Diversity Advisor at CITB ConstructionSkills. To download the findings please click here
Launch of the intial key findings of the Sustainable Training for Sustainable Communities project at the ODPM Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit
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Prefabulous Homes
A new publication funded by the ODPM in collaboration with the Housing Forum based on the popular Prefabulous Homes seminar series is now available. "Prefabulous Homes The New Housebuilding Agenda" by David Birkbeck, Chief Executive of Design for Homes and Andrew Scoones, Director of the Building Centre Trust contains:
- Fourteen illustrated case studies from the Prefabulous Home seminar series
- Essays by Peter Phippen and John Prewer
- Articles on products and productivity drawn from the first six Prefabulous Homes events held at the Building Centre, London between 2002 and 2004.
It costs: £20 including postage and packing and is available from:
The Building Centre Bookshop, 26 Store St, London, WC1E 7BT
www.buildingcentre.co.uk
Tel: 020 7692 4040
Fax: 020 7636 3628
bookshop@buildingcentre.co.uk
East Beswick (New East Manchester/Lovell Partnerships)
One of the fringe events at the ODPM's Delivering Sustainable Comunities Summit were site visits to East Beswick (New East Manchester/ Lovell Partnerships) and Moho @ Castlefields (Urban Splash/ Yorkon). The visits were organised by Design for Homes, The Building Centre Trust and The Housing Forum as part of the Prefabulous Homes series.
Moho @ Castlefields (Urban Splash/ Yorkon)
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Initial Results of the Housing Forum Housing Corporation Survey
The Housing Forum has conducted a survey of the Housing Corporation ADP Partner RSLs on behalf of the Housing Corporation to explore issues arising from the ADP Partnering Programme. Seventy surveys were sent out in December 2004 and by January 2005 the response rate was 40%. The initial results of the survey have been analysed and it was found that of the respondents:
- 71% were in Partnering Programme Agreements with other Housing Associations.
- 64% of respondents regularly measured performance across their supply chain and gave most weighting to quality and price when selecting their partners.
- The most commonly reported successes arising from partnering and supply chain integration were greater predictability and fewer defects.
- The most commonly reported successes achieved by MMC are awards, recognition and time savings.
- Initial costs are the key barriers to use of MMC
The survey has been followed by a series of five Chief Executive Breakfast Briefings, four of which are being chaired by Sir Michael Latham. These are followed by seminars for Directors of Development to explore the essentials of strategic development strategies to help RSLs improve performance so as to maintain the partnering relationship with the Housing Corporation.
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Membership News |
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Why become a member of the Housing Forum?
What are the benefits? Click here to link to the membership section of the Housing Forum website and find out ...
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Events |
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Mipim 8-11th March 2005, Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France
Judith Harrison, Director of The Housing Forum, will be attending Mipim, the international Property industry event held annually in Cannes which brings together investors and end users. It is attended by around 17,000 people from around the world and provides extensive networking opportunities. For more information please go to www.mipim.com
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Contact details |
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The Housing Forum has moved to Constructing Excellence's new offices. They can now be found at 25 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 0PP.
The following people can be contacted through the switchboard number
020 7592 1100:
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| Steve Lidgate, Chair |
| Judith Harrison, Director |
| Krystyna Blackburn, Project Manager |
| Natalie Clinton, Project Adminstrator |
| Zoe Le Grand, Project Officer |
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