We recently reported that we had won three new schemes in Wrexham, including a new external improvement project arising from Wrexham County Borough Council’s Environmental Works Framework. Those improvements are now well under way, with staff on site and many preparatory works having been completed.
In recent weeks, SBS has won a swathe of new projects and places on some important new client frameworks. It has also started work on sites across the country, all of which has prompted a number of new appointments.
Amongst others, recent appointments have included Andy Roberts, our project manager on the new environmental works scheme in Wrexham. Joining him is our new tenant liaison officer, Mandy Lodge.
We have made additional TLO appointments in Bromborough, Bristol, Ruabon, Swansea and Coventry.
In the same week that we learned of our success on the Fusion 21 Energy Efficiency Framework, we also heard that we had been awarded a place on the Efficiency East Midlands (EEM) Property Improvement Works Framework.
The framework will cover major and minor investment and refurbishment schemes, cyclical improvement works - including works across multiple and single sites - and any additional Decent Homes programmes or new initiatives that arise.
In February 2020, SBS received confirmation that it had won a place on the latest generation of the Fusion 21 Energy Efficiency Framework.
This is our third successive appointment to the framework, having previously won places in 2011 and 2015 – all for a duration of four years.
On 2nd March 2020, the BBC released figures that showed an alarming shortfall in the UK’s progress towards its 2050 ‘net zero’ carbon target.
The report quotes Dr Tim Forman, a researcher at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Sustainable Development, who said that meeting the 2050 target would require “a national project of a scale not seen since World War Two.”
The commitment to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 was signed into law in June 2019 but the UK’s lack of progress has been alarming scientists and environmental commentators alike.
