Prop Connect
Building
T e idea came about after both local businessmen
connections closer to home
It is one of the accepted truths within property and construction that you have to travel far and wide to win and fulfi l contracts – now two key players in the sector are joining forces to try to encourage local professionals to look closer to home. Parm Bhangal and Matthew Abraham have launched
Prop Connect – a networking group that will encourage a community of property professionals. Developers and contractors, architects and quantity surveyors, specialist services, building services and sole traders will all be welcome at the quarterly events that are aimed at connecting like-minded professionals and helping them expand their networks. Parm, who founded Bhangals Construction
Consultants to provide quantity surveying, estimating and project management services, will be working with Matthew, from FormFive, a people-fi rst construction contractor based in Earls Barton, to organise and facilitate the events, which will be held at Bhangals’ Grange Park headquarters in Northampton.
realised that they were travelling signifi cant distances to attend networking events, securing contracts elsewhere in the UK, but fi nding contractors from out the area working on projects closer to home. Parm said: “It doesn’t matter where I go for networking,
whether it’s in the county, in London, further afi eld, I often see people from Northamptonshire. We’re all travelling around to win business all over the UK and it struck me that what we are not doing is working hard to keep local work with local companies. “T ere’s plenty of work out there and It’s absolutely
feasible to make sure work stays local, but because of the way work is secured, through frameworks and supplier lists, you end up with a situation where companies from Northamptonshire are working on a job 200 miles away and teams from 200 miles away are coming to Northampton.” Matthew said: “If you look at how work of a signifi cant
value is secured, companies are obviously keen to look after their clients and so they use people they know and have built a relationship with, so they take people along with them. “If we’re planning a project, to meet BREEAM
regulations, we have to track materials and components coming in and where they are coming from, and we have to track waste and how we are disposing of it, yet there is nothing about tracking the miles people travel to carry out work that could be done locally.
ALL THINGS BUSINESS | 30
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68
