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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #106 A Beginner’s Guide to Social Value
Description: Why do we build? Why develop society? And who reaps the benefit?
In this episode we look at the new interest the construction industry is taking in quantifying and appreciating social value. That difficult-to-define idea that has also enjoyed the recent attention of central government, with legislation mandating that projects and tenders take it into account.
Social Value is relatively new to industry. It has evolved out of earlier ideas such as Corporate Social Responsibility and there is still a lot of discussion around what it is, what it should actually involve.
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