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Clients seeking diversity ‘shouldn’t delegate responsibility to practices’
Emerging practices with BAME-leadership have called on clients to ‘be more proactive’ about diversity and avoid shifting responsibility on to bidding teams and small firms
Speaking ahead of tonight’s Negroni talk on ‘bamewashing’, two of the panellists have responded to growing concerns that BAME-led micro-companies are being pressured to join forces with larger practices on time-consuming and costly bids for large-scale work.
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AJ 40 under 40 star Jas Bhalla, a panellist for the Negroni talk, said a public sector pitch last year had taken up six weeks of his practice time.
AJ 40 under 40 stars shortlisted for £20k William Sutton Prize
1/5 Shortlisted: Assemble. This submission addresses the interlocking challenges faced by rural communities in Dorset and the rest of the UK: a lack of affordable housing, economic decline and loss of livelihoods and environmental issues linked to climate change
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2/5 Highly commended: Editional Studio. This team has proposed a project to work with housing associations and residents to retrofit and upgrade their homes by providing access to knowledge, skills and training from an expert design and build team
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3/5 Winner: Ecomotive and SNUG Homes. The duo propose a vibrant hub of community participation that co-produces housing in response to local needs