BBE has a wide variety of experience in working with SMEs to chose the correct consulting services that they require, listening to them and advising on the best solutions to not only win them more work but to make the business more efficient and leaner so that the bottom line figure is increased.

We provide advice on (click to expand each element);

Accreditations

Expert experience of advising on the correct accreditation to attain, proven track history of successfully obtaining it and then retaining it, year on year.

Bid Writing

Presenting your bids and tenders in a professional and concise manner instils confidence in your business with the client. This not only wins you work but creates long lasting relationships with repeat work.

Energy Saving Solutions

As a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv), Brearey Building Experts can assess your project or building for sustainability and advise on the best possible solutions to ensure your building is not only performing at it’s best but is also kind to the environment and local habitat.

Marketing & Social Media

Creation of striking website with linked social media pages, advice on marketing strategies and how to promote your business in the correct manner to win work and prove competence to customers.

Retrofitting

Advice on installing better performing elements to existing buildings, such as windows, doors, ventilation, heating & hot water systems, insulation, energy management systems, green energy systems, and electrical components, to reduce outgoing costs on managing your building.

Social Value

Advice on how to increase the social value of your projects and business as a whole through planned strategies that make a real difference to local communities

Further information on how we can help your business through our consulting services are detailed below;

Accreditations

Which accreditation is the correct for your business?

Get in contact with us to discuss which is the best suited to your current business and also where you would like your business to go.

Please click on the links below to learn an overview of the accreditations that your company could obtain;

Chartered Building Company (with The Chartered Institute of Building – CIOB)

Being a Chartered Company proves that your company is run by professionally qualified managers, experienced in all aspects of the building process. It demonstrates to clients and suppliers that your company is committed to the principles and values of best practice, ethical standards and professionalism. Company Membership if more than just a label; it’s an invitation to be part of a diverse community that thrives on innovation and collaboration.

CHAS

CHAS is a trusted provider of health and safety assessments and a co-founder of the Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP). CHAS simplifies the prequalification for contractors across a wide range of risk management areas, from health and safety to environmental impact. It also supports organisations in managing their own supply chains.

Constructionline

Constructionline is an accreditation platform that allows members and buyers of services to contact each other through a pre-qualified service. All members are validated against PAS91 criteria and beyond so that buyers can quickly and confidently select construction partners.

ISO

ISO accreditation is a globally recognised standard that demonstrates a company’s ability to meet third-party quality, safety, and efficiency standards. Obtaining and maintaining an ISO accreditation means improved customer satisfaction, lower business costs, increased business credibility and reduced risk.

SafeContractor

SafeContractor is one of the founding members of the SSIP accreditation and meets PAS 91. Assessment is based upon your trade / work activities and is recognised by 1,000s of clients as a good standard of health and safety.

Specialist

Your company may want to become part of other specialist accreditation schemes, please get in contact to discuss your exact requirements to see how we can help your business progress.

Bid Writing

Bid writing, or tender writing, is creating high-quality, persuasive and well-communicated content about a company in order to win a tender or contract.

With a wealth of experience of writing successful bids tailored to your company, your client and the project, roll out or programme that you are looking to secure, BBE are able to assist you in creating a professional submission that can accompany your tender to support your bid for the works.

Our knowledge of being able to ascertain what is relevant and precious to your client is used to ensure that your bespoke bid is the best that it can be, meeting all the criteria points that the client is looking for answers on. These, mostly, suites of documents are created to show your business, and employees, are the most suitable for the project, know the works thoroughly and really want to work with the client to deliver an amazing project.

Whether it is a PQQ (Pre Qualification Questionnaire), ITT (Invitation To Tender) or an actual bid submission, BBE can assist you with creating meaningful and impactful documents to help you win work.

Energy Saving Solutions

The energy use in commercial buildings is predicted to increase every year for at least two decades.

From single building assessments to advice on rolling out a programme of energy saving initiatives, BBE is able to offer advice and source quotations for the delivery of your energy saving goals.

By listening to what you want to achieve and how your business and/or building/s operate we are able to learn and analysis which solutions would be most relevant to you.

With experience of advising successful and innovative schemes to save energy usage, and ultimately money, getting in contact with BBE might be one of the best things you do.

Marketing & Social Media

BBE has experience of strategising and delivering successful marketing and branding plans for SME businesses. These include the creation of websites, social media pages (most relevant to your business and time restrictions for input / management) and marketing materials.

Branding guidelines, company logos and straplines can all be created so that launching, marketing or re-branding a business can be completed in a professional manner with ease.

Retrofitting

Retrofitting is the process of making changes to existing building systems and materials to improve the energy efficiency, environmental impact and effectiveness of the building as a whole.

Reducing energy usage and carbon emissions leads to long-term cost savings on the day to day running of a building and also has a larger environmental impact.

Retrofitting makes homes and workspaces healthier and more comfortable to be within. It can also replace outdated inefficient systems or add new green energy systems to an existing building to generate ‘free’ energy, reduce maintenance costs and sometimes add new revenue streams.

BBE assess what retrofit works you could complete and advise the correct order to have the works completed in so that the project can be delivered correctly and cost effectively.

Social Value

Social Value is the quantification of the relative importance that people place on changes they experience in their lives. It’s important to consider and measure this from the perspective of those affected by the organisations works. This could be your employees, their families, the local community to your business address, the local community to where you are delivering projects and also your supply chain, amongst others.

It is an important topic that all businesses, no matter what sector they operate in, should be delivering. This not only makes your business better performing through having more engaged employees but also creates confidence in your clients and benefits your local community.

Social value has many forms and ways of being delivered, some projects make this an essential element of winning works, Public Sector works award a minimum of 10% of the overall tender assessment grading based upon SV. Overall it is about improving the wellbeing of people, reducing inequality and increasing environmental sustainability.

BBE can assist you in not only meeting your client’s requirements but surpassing them to make a real difference to the lives of communities.