Soft Landings goes to international markets
The BSRIA-led Soft Landings programme for achieving a smooth handover of buildings is attracting interest in international markets. Two of BSRIA’s senior consultants have been presenting on the process in France and Australia. David Churcher presented at BIM World in Paris last month, and Roderic Bunn presented in a series of workshop in Australia and in Auckland in New Zealand.
Jo Harris, BSRIA’s manager in the sustainable construction group, said, ‘It is no surprise to us that Soft Landings is attracting interest outside of the UK. The performance gap is a global concern, and Soft Landings used properly can help identify this during the project and allow remedial action to be undertaken. We believe that the ever-increasing awareness of the performance gap will lead to more interest in Soft Landings in other countries.’
Soft Landings provides a framework of activities for clients and their project teams to embed into their existing project-management processes in order to avoid common pitfalls and deliver a better performing building. It aims to create virtuous circles, no matter whether the project is trying to achieve exemplary environmental standards or is a simple extension or retrofit of an existing building, the Soft Landings culture can be applied to ensure outcomes match the clients’ intentions.
