Engaging the Supply Chain: A Practical Guide to Delivering Sustainability Outcomes
This guide is a practical starting point for anyone wishing to work with the supply chain to deliver positive transformational sustainability outcomes in the built environment.
The built environment involves many organisations across long and complex supply chains, spanning strategic partners and project specific suppliers. These supply chains significantly influence environmental and social outcomes across the lifecycle of assets, and effective engagement can shape how buildings are designed, delivered, operated and repurposed for decades.
This guide sets out a simple four-step approach to effective supply chain engagement:
1. Which impacts to engage on
2. Who to engage with
3. When to engage
4. How to engage
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Target Audience
Building owners/occupiers and managers
including portfolio managers involved in the acquisition, management and operation of existing assets; property and facilities managers; estate teams.
Project design team members
including developers, consultants, designers, architects, urban planners, engineers, contractors, ecologists and others.
Materials suppliers and product manufacturers
who provide materials and finished goods.
Procurement teams operating across the built environment
teams responsible for sourcing, negotiating and contracting in support of the purchase of goods, works and services.
Advancing Net Zero Partners
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Engaging the Supply Chain Project Partners
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Advancing Net Zero
Created in 2018 as part of a World Green Building Council former global Advancing Net Zero programme, UKGBC’s Advancing Net Zero programme has a mission to lead the UK’s transition to a net zero built environment. It has produced leading guidance such as the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework and the Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap, whilst working with organisations and experts across the industry.
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