Short Description

Projects in the Built Environment need to be technically feasible, financially viable, and socially acceptable.   Project managers need to focus on three things:  concrete, cash and connection.   This book focuses on the third of those elements (connection) and provides a step-by-step guide to how a project can be socially successful.  The book uses a new approach to the  stakeholder engagement process to facilitate social value and to put people and stakeholders at the heart of projects.

Meet The Authors

Dr Sarah Fitton – Founder and Director of Aurora Engagements Ltd 
Sarah has over 17 years of experience working in industry in a large Built Environment consultancy before setting up her own firm.
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Simon Wilson -Co-founder and Director
Simon is a former Vice Chair of the International Association of Facilitators and a member of the Environment Agency’s Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Community of Practice (SECCOP).
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Where is the book about writing a book?

So, we wrote a book.  From start to finish.  If you are a close connection of either Simon or me then you will have probably seen us in various states of excitement, trepidation, panic and joy as we journeyed through this process over the space of about a year and...
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Flood and Coast 2025 – Water, pastries and people

What is a socially successful project? We went to Telford in Shropshire to find out. We believe that projects in the built environment should be technically feasible, financially viable and also socially successful, leading to results that people and communities like, or even love. Did anyone else share this thinking?  ...
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How working with social values builds better projects

“Social Value is created when buildings, places and infrastructure support and enhance the quality of life of the people who live, work, play and learn there” (Stuart, 2024). How did this subjective and ambiguous term land in the built environment?  Social value is rooted in the concept of sustainability.  Much...
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