Professional Clients

Additional Resources 

The Value Toolkit

Historically, a construction project’s success has been measured against two benchmarks – time and cost. The Construction Innovation Hub's Value Toolkit provides a suite of tools to support value-based decision-making across the whole investment lifecycle.

The Building Safety Act

The UK’s Building Safety Act, which was granted royal assent in April 2022, makes ground-breaking reforms to give residents and homeowners more rights, powers and protections. Keep up to date with your responsibilities as client.

The Construction Playbook (Public Sector Projects)

The Construction Playbook captures commercial best practices and specific sector reforms outlining the UK government’s expectations of how contracting authorities and suppliers, including the supply chain, should engage with each other. These are set out in 14 key policies for how the government should assess, procure and deliver public works projects and programmes which all central government departments and their arms-length bodies are expected to follow on a ‘comply or explain’ basis.  

Zero Carbon Future (LETI Client Guide)

The Low Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) is a voluntary network of over 1,000 built environment professionals, working together to put the UK and the planet on the path to a zero carbon future.  The LETI Client Guide for Net Zero Carbon Buildings pulls together key details from numerous LETI documents and publications, which cover the ways in which briefing, designing, procuring, constructing, occupying, managing and valuing buildings must change. Putting the client at the centre, these changes are identified and mapped in this guide, against the RIBA Plan of Work.

The Construction Playbook (Private Sector Projects)

This playbook has been produced by the Construction Productivity Taskforce. The Taskforce brings together leading figures in the construction industry – clients, contractors, supply chain members and designers – to undertake practical interventions that improve productivity in the construction industry.

Guide to Sustainability in the Built Environment 

Our new sustainability guide for built environment professionals offers practical tools and strategies to help readers embrace sustainable practices during the planning, construction and ongoing operation of a building to support national and global efforts to reach net zero, while also improving the environment for surrounding communities. 

Including Net Zero Carbon Targets in Procurement 

This guidance has been drafted for public sector or quasi-public sector bodies, to provide a framework for how net zero carbon targets can be assessed as part of the procurement process and be included in contracts.

The UKGBC has published practical guidance to enable clients to begin requesting embodied carbon measurements and how to act on the results. The guidance explains some of the basics of embodied carbon, gives an overview of some suggested approaches, provides example clauses to propel embodied carbon requirements down the supply chain and gives practical tips on how to use the outcomes of an assessment.