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Lendlease
Lendlease is a multinational integrated real estate business, with investment, development and construction arms. In the UK, we work closely with Lendlease to help improve workforce management and insight, which is particularly impactful when it comes to improving social value. Social value is taken very seriously by Lendlease. In 2024, their commitment was proven by winning the Excellence in Real Estate award and a High Commendation in the Excellence in Planning category at the Social Value awards 2024.
At Lendlease, social impact is embedded throughout business operations – the business having objectives to create $250m of social value by 2025, and also aiming to deliver social value across all projects and assets. Achieving this requires the business to consider all of the opportunities to deliver social value to communities, from taking ethical procurement decisions through to reducing modern slavery risks and increasing valuable local employment opportunities and supporting local businesses.
With the many targets Lendlease sets itself, as well as requirements set by clients, access to comprehensive, accurate and reliable workforce data is critical. This is where our sustainability module proves its value by unlocking powerful social value reporting, made possible through a combination of pre-site and on-site solutions which are used to capture accurate data.
The workforce data we help Lendlease capture is able to paint a true picture of what is happening on its construction sites and easily identifies where trends exist.
Now, the entire social value team at Lendlease benefits from a custom dashboard that provides the exact data needed, when it’s needed – proving the platform’s accessibility. This has led to significant time and productivity savings compared to a previously manual process, which means that Lendlease’s social value experts can spend less time on administrative tasks and more time thinking about their next brilliant initiative to help communities thrive.
"I have been working in social value and related roles for many years and have used various different systems to support data analysis. MSite is the best solution I have found so far, offering the biggest time savings and greatest data reliability. We set very high standards for everything we do at Lendlease – and social value is no different. How we gather data and understanding its provenance is key. Social Value is an emerging discipline, with the parameters of good practice continually shifting and changing. However, we’re confident that with MSite’s support we will be able to focus on what matters so we’re in a strong position to continue to drive positive change."
Lucile Watkins-Brazier
Head of Social Value at Lendlease Development, Construction and Consulting, UK.
Lendlease averages 15% local labour year on year in the UK, which is above the industry average of 9% - and this is monitored and validated by our technology. Examples of other important data we can produce, used to build influential reports, includes demographics, apprenticeships and living wage employer confirmation.
As well as helping Lendlease to independently improve its own social value efforts, the data can be used to inform clients during the project bid process – ensuring greater transparency in the construction industry.
Lendlease is using the data to decide its own future, not just to reflect on the past. It is hoped that we can use our technology to help with raising awareness of disability inclusion, as well as gender inclusion, which are just two of many ongoing challenges in the construction sector.
Our work with Lendlease provides a good example of the consultative approach we take with all of our partners. Continued dialogue and configuration refinement means that maximum value can be derived from our solutions – increasing insight, saving time and enabling the construction industry to be the best it can be.
Discover more on how MSite enables better Social Value reporting for the construction industry here.
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