About

Since 2004, the EMCBE has been committed to working with the complete supply chain – from clients in both the public and private sectors, through to small SMEs to micro-businesses and to individuals – to improve the social, economic and environmental performance of the East Midlands construction industry.

Through the provision of a central hub of information and communication, and through a variety of engagement initiatives and projects, we’ve worked with the supply chain on both a regional and national level on issues such as innovation, sustainability, continuous improvement, procurement strategy and skills development.

We have established a recognised place in the particular requirements of all things to do with our heritage buildings and structures, including dedicated sources of information on our website and not least in respect of skills.

We are an important stakeholder and participant in the Built Environment Improvement Network (BE.IN), which collaborates closely with Constructing Excellence and national initiatives of common interest and importance.

We invite you to find out more about the EMCBE and the great work we’re doing, but more importantly, we’d welcome your own comments on how we can better shape our surroundings and built environment.

EMCBE Goals

• To provide strategic leadership for the region’s construction industry
• To become a focal point for the improvement of the construction industry
• To be a communications hub for co-ordinating and distributing key sector news
• To become a regional champion for improving skills and ensuring sustainability

“The quality of the built environment is hugely important to the quality of life within the region, and to the economy of the East Midlands. The region’s construction sector is instrumental in helping to achieve the best outcomes and futures for pressing social and business needs and demands. In its own right, the construction sector provides significant employment and added value to the regions economy. We are strategically important in providing built assets and infrastructure upon which all other sectors of the economy depend. The sector is involved at all stages of the life-cycle of constructing built assets in a sustainable way, ranging from design, planning and material production, to construction, facilities management, refurbishing, demolition and replacement. The regional construction sector must continuously demonstrate its long-term responsibility to mankind’s ‘one planet’ environment.”

David J. Walker
Chief Executive