Pagabo and Loop confirm partnership for UKREiiF 2023

Following the success of the Social Value Pavilion at the inaugural UKREiiF event, industry-leading organisation The 55 Group, has confirmed its involvement in UKREiiF – set to take place in Leeds between 16-18 May 2023.

The 55 Group is a collective group of businesses, incorporating national framework provider Pagabo, risk management and compliance software company Sypro, social value specialists Loop, and digital-first training platform Tequ.

The group’s mission is to utilise technology and innovative thinking to bring a better, faster, and greener approach within its core markets – including the built environment and construction sectors – and beyond. Its structure provides a platform for growth and an opportunity for each of the businesses to work together – sharing knowledge, vision, and expertise.

Through its various brands, The 55 Group supports public sector organisations across the UK throughout every stage of development schemes, from procuring works through to asset risk management and measuring positive social impact. This end-to-end support makes The 55 Group and its brands ideally placed for involvement in UKREiiF, where it will sponsor the Social Value Pavilion to reflect it’s overall aim to create positive change through its operations.

Encouraging clients and suppliers to use social value as the body of their business, Loop’s positioning as ‘The Social Value People’ and its services ensure that clients are able to accurately calculate their social, economic, and environmental impact.

Speaking of the renewed partnership, Keith Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer at UKREiiF, said, “The 55 Group’s brand’s dedication to helping businesses embed social value into their workplace and in practice is exactly what needs to be shared at UKREiiF. The event will be the perfect place for them to showcase this commitment to social value to investors, major developers, and government.”

The 2022 event saw Loop showcasing its new software, which has increased functionality along with an increased number of KPIs available to users – now providing more than 800 new KPIs. This software offering has been completely re-coded and re-designed to enhance both capability and user experience – and brings forth new integration with Pagabo’s services to bring all the tools for the construction industry to procure and evaluate projects into a single place.

Gerard Toplass, group CEO of The 55 Group, said: “Our involvement in the first UKREiiF conference this year was a fantastic success and the pavilion was extremely busy throughout the three days, showing how interested the attendees are in social value generation and measurement.

“We were able to show how digitisation and software serves to make actions both easier and more impactful, with the integration between Loop’s software and Pagabo’s My Pagabo offering being a clear example. This shows how processes within the construction industry especially become much more meaningful and prompt better collaboration between parties, taking teams through from the procurement and early engagement stages through to evaluating the impact of their actions.

“It makes complete sense for us to continue the partnership with Built Environment Networking as social value especially continues to become completely central to the priorities of many businesses and their ESG aims. We look forward to revealing our plans for the pavilion in due course – and of course to another hugely successful conference in Leeds when next May rolls around.”