Sponsors
Elevate East Lancashire
Elevate is one of the government’s housing market renewal pathfinders, charged with finding innovative solutions to the problem of low demand and housing market collapse in towns across Pennine Lancashire. A major part of the programme focuses on improving the quality and diversity of the housing stock, but the challenge is greater than that. Sustainable neighbourhoods cannot be created through housing renewal alone. Funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government, Elevate is working with public and private sector partners - including the local authorities of Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle and Rossendale, and Lancashire County Council - to improve economic prosperity, the environment, community safety, cohesion, educational attainment and health, to make Pennine Lancashire a place where people choose to live, work, visit and relax.
www.elevate-eastlancs.co.uk
Tel: 01254 304550
Morgan Ashurst
Morgan Ashurst is a leading full-service construction business with more than 1,800 employees in the UK. Supported by a national network of local offices, the company works for private and public sector clients on projects from £50,000 to over £300 million. Morgan Ashurst’s construction activities range from small works, repair and maintenance services to large-scale complex projects across the airports, commercial, defence, education, healthcare, industrial, leisure and retail sectors.
The National Skills Academy
The National Skills Academy for Construction, led by ConstructionSkills, is the first truly industry-led approach to training that puts employers firmly in the driving seat in determining the skills they need, and directs funding to where it will be most effective. It is a partnership between ConstructionSkills, employers, clients, training providers and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to deliver project-specific on-site training.
24 Academy projects are already up and running across England with the support of major employers including Bovis Lend Lease, Balfour Beatty and Costain, and we aim to extend this to 42 by the end of 2009.
www.cskills.org/nsafc
Tel: 0344 994 4400
BRE
The BRE Trust Companies, BRE and BRE Global, are world leading research, consultancy, training, testing and certification organisations delivering sustainability and innovation across the built environment and beyond. Our mission is to 'build a better world'. Since October 2008 BRE North West has been based out of central Manchester and has established a ground breaking alliance with the Centre for Construction Innovation to deliver sustainability across the region. For more information about BRE services in the North West please visit www.bre.co.uk/nwandwm or contact Tim Whitehill on 0161 295 5076.
CARA Group
Excalibur House, 630 Liverpool Road, Irlam, Manchester, M44 5AD
Tel: 0161 775 0806 Fax: 0161 777 8188
Email Construction: office@caraconstruction.com
Email Brickwork: office@carabrickwork.com
Web: www.caragroup.co.uk
The Cara Group of Companies is based in the North West of England. Operating throughout the U.K., Cara Construction & Cara Brickwork provide quality construction services in a safe, timely and professional manner. The Cara Group has ISO 9001/14001 UKAS Accreditation as well as OSHAS 18001.
School of the Built Environment, University of Salford
The School is the UK’s premier school for the Built Environment. It offers a range of management focussed, professionally accredited, undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses. At undergraduate level full-time courses offer industrial placement and sponsorship opportunities.
The School offers world-class research opportunities, both to advance knowledge and for continuing professional development, it is the UK’s highest rated, Built Environment research school. Our research themes embrace management, ICT, and the environment. The School also offers wide ranging support to business, government and community.
www.sobe.salford.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 295 4600
Built Environment Improvement Network (BEIN)
‘A regional network for a safe, sustainable and continuously improving Built Environment Sector, sharing knowledge, innovating together, and working in an integrated and effective manner’.
Its goal is to take the Rethinking Construction message to the next level and champions Best Practice and support everyone working in the built environment to deliver the highest value to their respective end users. Acting as a bridge between industry, clients, government and the research community, BEIN will provide knowledge, information and advice to the construction sector through research, advisory, consultancy and grant funded projects as well as tools, products and services.
There is tremendous strength in and there are valuable benefits to be derived from a collaborative and coherent effort, and the regional agencies for the construction sector have resolved to formalise a hitherto longstanding, but informal, working collaboration by coming together as a collective voice in BEIN.
