Sustainable Building Services News

Our New QS Apprentices

The SBS team is getting bigger each month as we deliver increasing numbers of decarbonisation schemes across the UK. The latest to join us are two new trainee quantity surveyors, Amber Lawton and Lucas Roberts.

Amber comes to us from Winstanley College in Wigan, where she completed her A-levels. Under her new apprenticeship programme, she will typically be spending three days a week on-site, one day in the SBS head office, and another day studying at John Moores University, working towards a BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying.

SHDF Wave 2 Bid - Advisory Booklet

In mid-June, government announced the likely timeline for submissions for funding via Wave 2 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF). The official guidance notes that the competition window is likely to open in late August / early September 2022, but that applicants are encouraged to begin preparing their applications now.

SHDF Wave 2

SBS Supports Apprenticeship Event

On 5^th July, SBS staff will attend a “Spark Apprenticeship Marketplace” event at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in Preston. It will run from 9:30am to 3:00pm.

The day-long event is a platform for enabling meetings between prospective degree apprentices and regional employers. It is part of a series of sessions, each focusing on a specific sector: engineering, construction, business and digital industries.

SBS’s New Regional Operations Manager

SBS is pleased to announce the appointment of James Phillips, who joined the company in June, taking the role of Regional Operations Manager.

SDHF Wave 2 Timeline

On Monday 13 June, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held an event for local authorities, combined authorities and registered providers of social housing. It set out to explain how they could apply for funding to improve the energy performance of their properties.

The funding is available under the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Wave 2. This will be divided into separate tranches, the first of which will have a value of up to £700 million. The works funded by the scheme will bring properties up to a minimum EPC rating of “C”.