A new network of small and medium-sized businesses will be assembled to offer smaller firms a slice of the Green Deal construction action, it has been said today.

According to Construction News, Party Projects managing director Russell Smith has announced plans for a so-called 'Green Deals Conduit' to launch by the beginning of 2013.

Mr Smith hopes to create a network of SMEs to focus on the assessment and refurbishment of buildings across the UK, hoping to act as a link between big business and medium-sized construction firms that are capable and trained to Green Deal certification standards.

"The nature of the Green Deal means that engagement with the market requires an organisation to be able to provide a wide and complex set of services to customers, which will be difficult for small and medium-sized organisations," he said.

"The Green Deal Conduit is designed to allow these small and medium-sized organisations to work together to be able to provide these Green Deal services," he continued.

The Green Deal is a proposed set of UK policies to be introduced in October 2012, which essentially sets out to offset the cost of eco-friendly renovations to customers' and businesses' energy bills, making the immediate cost of going green lower.

As the policy is expected to kick-start more property work on residential and commercial property alike, more construction firms will be working with LED lighting and similarly eco-friendly components.

And as a result, Mr Smith hopes his Conduit network will be the key link in securing such commercial outfitting work for smaller firms.

"Members will need to have all GD certification for GD work," he said, "and meet the GD Provider requirements for those that the Conduit aligns with. However, we expect membership to also be able to work the 'other way', in agreeing work against a schedule of rates."