Sandwell Decent Homes
Sandwell Homes is an arms length management organisation, which owns 33,000 properties across 6 boroughs of Sandwell. After a vigorous selection process, Wates Living Space were chosen to be a partner along with Connaught Property Services and Taylor Woodrow.
The Sandwell Decent Homes partnership was established in 2005 and is an award winning
framework; expected to deliver £425m of improvements to 30,000 homes across the Sandwell Borough. We are now into our 4th year and have carried out a variety of Decent Homes elements as well as external and environmental improvements to over 3,500 properties. Our KPI’s have returned exceptional results with our score regularly exceeding 90%.
To date the parnership has won:
- 2008 - The partnership was recognised as an exemplar organisation by the West Midlands Centre for Constructing
- Excellence UK Housing Forum (WMCCE)
- Best in Sandwell Award – Apprentice of the Year 2007
- WMCCE Constructing Excellence Awards 2008 and 2009
- Integration and Collaborative Working Winners
- BEST Award - Employer of the Year 2007
- Green Award for Recycling 2007
- Wates Group Business Excellence Award for the Environment 2006.
Collaborative working is the foundation upon which the
partnership has been built and a number of mechanisms
have been put into place to support this:
- A strategic board manages all key areas of the partnership
– with representatives from both the client and the - contractors; it helps ensure the partnership works as a single unit
- A monthly delivery unit meets to jointly identify and address any delivery issues, allowing the utilisation ofexpertise to implement solutions
- Cross partnership communication; shared learning and efficient delivery
- Joint Health & Safety Training and Employment meetings to enable best practice
Client: Sandwell Homes
Value: £67m
Project Duration: 5 YEARS (2005 – 2010)
Categories: refurbishment, affordable housing, midlands
Tags: Decent Homes
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