Great Turn Out For The Building Plymouth Hosted Meet The City Buyer Event

Building Plymouth, the Council-led sector skills partnership with construction and built environment hosted a Meet the City Buyers event at the Stormforce Marquee, Plymouth Albion on Thursday 5 June.

This was the latest in a series of key events to celebrate Building Plymouth’s 10 year anniversary.

The city’s key clients including Babcock, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth City Council, University of Plymouth and Plymouth Community Homes shared the latest news about their capital programmes leading up to 2030 with the 150 strong audience.

Members of the local construction community heard directly from the clients and then took part in some informal networking, and the chance to chat to the clients one to one.

The event was held in partnership and was kindly sponsored by First Thursday Club.

Emma Hewitt, Skills Lead, Plymouth City Council said: “Today is about us creating a positive engagement opportunity between the city’s public sector clients and the local construction community. A chance to hear about the bigger picture, get informed about the market opportunities ahead, understand latest procurement strategies and client priorities for social value. We are working hard together to improve transparency of the capital programme and to create an informative networking opportunity to better connect clients with the local marketplace. The feedback has been fantastic from industry and the clients alike so this is an exciting time to be working together.”