INNOVATIONS AND INSIGHTS
PROCURING INNOVATIVE, SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
WHEN IT COMES TO ACHIEVING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOMES, IMPLEMENTING ‘SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PROCUREMENT’ DURING PROJECT INITIATION AND PLANNING, COULD BE THE ANSWER – COLLABORATING AND ENGAGING EARLY IS THE KEY.
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Australia’s Construction industry is project based and competitive. It relies heavily on bringing dozens and, sometimes hundreds, of separate team members together to deliver a capital asset. It is this bringing together, and high level of organisation and project 10
management, that creates an opportunity to build in innovation, and social and environmental outcomes through procurement being part of upfront collaboration. This can be achieved through the power of government spending, choice of materials, modelling through testing virtual prototypes and procurement professionals
