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The Brief
“how taking a collaborative and Lean
approach to delivering projects working
closely with client teams has brought
benefits to ROK as a commercial company”
– Introduction to Rok
– Collaborative history
– Current Challenges
– The Future

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Introduction

 Local Knowledge – National Scale

– £750m turnover
– 5,000 employees
– 58 offices
 Focus on key sectors / customers
– Affordable housing (£290m)
– Insurance repairs (£70m)
– Airports (£40m)
– Other collaborations (£120m)

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Housing
 Experienced framework
partner
– 199 housing customers
nationally (1.77m homes)

 Full spectrum of services

– New homes
– Regeneration
– Refurbishment
– Planned & Cycle works
– Repairs & maintenance

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Refurbishment

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 New Homes - Case Study
Since Publication, the Rok ‘Fast House’
initiative has improved average project
time by a further 33%

Excerpt from
Rok/DCHA
KPI brochure
printed March
2009

Since Publication, the Rok ‘Best Net Cost’

initiative has improved average project cost
by a further 19%

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Meeting Targets in a changing Economy

 Housing & Regeneration Act 2008

– Section 19 powers
 Future of affordable housing funding
– Equity
– Loans
– Recycling & returns direct to HCA
– Kickstart similarities
 Single Conversation toward Investment Plans
– Focussing on regeneration of specific localities
– Strategic sites
– Consolidating public grant

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Our Business Model & Viability
 Investment & Capital costs
– Determine need / demand
– Concept & product
– Collaborative programming
– Alternative investment
– Optimise cross-subsidy
 Maintenance costs
– PFI approach
– Home of choice
– Rok maintenance
• Annual fixed fee?
• Deployment

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 Solar Systems – Feed-in Tariff
 Rok technicians MCS accredited
 Maintained for life – 3*?
 Institutional investment

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 Retrofit
Management / Main Contractor preliminary, profit & overhead (?%)

Contract Contractor profit Contractor Contractor Contractor profit Contractor

profit & & overhead costs profit & profit & o/h & overhead costs profit & o/h (?
o/h (?%) (?%) o/h (?%) (?%) (?%) %)

Cost of Cost of measures: Cost of Cost of Cost of measures: Cost of

measures: measures: measures: measures:
•Insulation board •Replacement
•Mast- •Electrical boilers
•Reinforcement
climbers connections
fabric •EWI •Heating controls •Cavity wall
•Trellis adjustment •Satellite &
•Render system •Fuel switching •Loft insulation
. aerial adj.
•Scaffold (typically sublet
•EWI adjustmnts •Loft top-up
. again)

Scaffold External Repairs & Electrical Plumbing & Domestic

Sub- insulation & Brickwork Sub- Heating Insulation
contract render Sub- contractor Sub- Sub-
teams contract contractor contractor

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 Thanks for listening – any questions?

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