• Accredited as an Investor in Diversity 2011
  • Reducing our carbon footprint by 5% annually
  • Five Times LABC Built in Quality Award Winner 2011
  • Housing Excellence Regeneration Scheme of the Year 2011
  • Investor in People Accredited
  • 2011 ROSPA Bronze Award Winner for Health and Safety
  • Voted as a Best Company to Work for 2011, 2010 and 2009
  • Working Towards Investors in Diversity 2011
  • Health and Safety OHSAS 18001 Accredited
  • Positive About Disabled People Accredited Organisation
  • Environmental ISO14001 Accredited
  • Quality Assurance ISO9001 2008 Accredited
  • £72m Group Turnover in 2010
  • CSCS Certified in house test centre
  • CSCS Platinum status - over 90% of our staff are registered
  • 10% of our workforce are Apprentice and Trainees
  • Over 340 skilled and qualified construction professionals employed
  • Dedicated staff volunteering scheme, Escalate in the Community

Training

It is an established fact that a company is only as good as the people who work for it, and never has this found greater resonance than in today's construction industry. To achieve our goals we place the highest importance on identifying talented people and providing them with space and opportunity to succeed.

We understand that training contributes significantly to performance, job fulfillment and staff retention and we have met the requirements of the Investor in People programme which recognises that we:

- Promote lifelong learning and career development
- Annually appraise each employee.
- Measure and review performance annually
- Provide open access to training for every employee
- Provide mentoring and support
- Produce, fund and undertake an annual training plan

Many of our staff are professionally qualified having completed recognised higher and further education courses or qualifications under industry recognised professional bodies.

We support our staff in continuous professional development training and in achievement of Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) registration. We have over 20 apprentices and trainees on our books and look to develop our own staff wherever possible.

On many of our schemes we recruit local people to join our teams, teaching new skills of value to them and the community.


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