Four million of the North’s homes need to be upgraded to reach an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) level C. That’s a huge target in itself, but when you factor in the Government's Clean Growth Strategy deadline of 2035 for this to happen, that means 270,000 homes need to be retrofitted every year until then.
Procurement specialist LHC has appointed Elaine Elkington, an experienced consultant and leader in both the public and private sectors, as its interim managing director. The not-for-profit organisation has also added Asha Patel to its permanent senior team as strategy, innovation and growth director.
Work on replacing the original roof structure and finish at Walthamstow School for Girls was carried out from July to December 2020.
Eight suppliers have been awarded a place on a new engineering inspection framework, worth £5million, for public sector organisations across England and Wales.
LHC are seeking to recruit two enthusiastic, committed professionals to work, initially, with the corporate services IT & Change function to develop and implement the training programme that will enable our target operating model.
After construction industry pressure, the guidance concerning the use of UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) construction products, which will replace the CE mark, have been revised.
Public sector housing teams will be able to hear about and discuss the challenges of and opportunities available in MMC, retrofit and the net zero agenda, as experts from procurement specialist LHC appear at Housing 2021.
The Workplace Wellbeing Charter, from Health@Work, assesses an organisation across eight categories including health and safety, leadership and mental health. Accreditation involves a rigorous process including a review of evidence of systems and processes and a wellbeing culture audit.
More than two years ago, we commissioned Locality to help deliver the LHC Community Benefit Fund across London. Since then, the fund has been used, and continues to be used, to make a community level difference city-wide.
A total of 33 local community groups have so far received a slice of the Community Benefit Fund, which is aimed at helping make a positive difference in these areas: wellbeing, food poverty, social isolation, community empowerment, environment and employment.
LHC STATEMENT: The latest round of evidence at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has mentioned LHC in connection with the fire doors. We can confirm that the fire doors originally installed in the building were procured via one of our frameworks.
