Our Better Public Buildings report made the case for good public building design, and our 2006 update Better Public Building exemplifies what great design can achieve.

• it makes services easy to deliver, thereby improving productivity
• it can help recruit and retain staff, cutting the costs of staff turnover
• it can help reach out to sectors of society who may previously have been excluded

Good design is not a costly luxury. Best practice in integrating design and construction delivers better value for money – as well as better buildings – especially when looking at the costs of a building over its lifetime.

Each year the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award celebrates the best new public building projects from around the UK.

For more information see the Better public buildings website.