Open Nav OUR RESPONSIBILITIES When we combine our values with our mission and our vision, being a responsible business is integral to our culture. We are committed to becoming a ‘Net Positive’ business, which aims to ensure we put more into society, the environment, and the global economy than we take out. MISSION: To responsibly, design, build, operate and maintain buildings, infrastructure and services. VISION: To create exceptional environments for present and future generations. OUR RESPONSIBILITY STRATEGY - NET POSITIVE OUR COMMITMENTS We have six ambitions, underpinned by key commitments, which are grouped into two key projects - Project Positive and Project Zero - that together will collectively drive us towards a Net Positive position. View document OUR PRIORITIES FOR 2021/22 Each of our commitments is supported by a series of annual priorities that we aim to achieve over the next 12 months. View document OUR MATERIALITY MATRIX The outputs from stakeholder engagement for Net Positive. View document WHAT’S NEXT FOR OUR BUSINESS? Following extensive stakeholder engagement, our Net Positive strategy outlines the six long term ambitions which will see us generate a Net Positive impact. Together by working towards the achievement of six long term ambitions, Net Positive will transform our way of doing business to ensure we put more into society, the environment and the global economy than we take out, helping us to make a responsible impact. Through many small actions, great change can occur and so by setting our long-term Net Positive ambitions we are setting a sustainable course for present and future generations. ZERO CARBON Since our revised 2018/19 baseline we reduced our carbon footprint by 31% up to 2021 but we recognise that we need to do more. In support of a move to a zero carbon position, this year we are setting a science based target for the Group so we can ensure that our direct and indirect carbon reductions contribute to keeping global temperatures below 1.5 degrees. ZERO WASTE At present 98% of the waste we generate avoids landfill and is recovered or recycled, however, we want to go further and reduce the amount of waste we generate in the long term. This not only has environmental benefits but reduces costs to the business too. ZERO HARM With safety first and foremost for our business it is important we continue to target zero harm within the workplace. This zero harm should not stop at our safety though and extends to our working environments and our supply chain too that is why we will always aim to ensure we have zero incidents of modern slavery within our business and zero reportable environmental incidents too. A GREAT PLACE TO WORK It is important to us that all our people are happy and healthy and are able to be themselves at work. With this in mind we have a continued focus on delivering the wellbeing and fairness, inclusion and respect agenda across the Group. DELIVERING SOCIAL VALUE We have a long history of engaging with our communities and social value has recently allowed us to begin to quantify the value that this generates beyond the donation of materials and our time. Some of our projects and contracts are already delivering significant impacts in our communities and so we are looking to develop a methodology SUSTAINABLE GROWTH It is important that our business remains profitable and resilient in order to deliver our Net Positive strategy. Operating responsibly supports our ambition for sustainable growth and enables us to demonstrate how we are the partner of choice in our industry and can help our clients achieve their sustainability targets through the delivery of our services. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OUR PREVIOUS STRATEGY One Approach, which underpinned our commitment to our people, customers and communities, launched in 2018 following a successful five year strategy and brought us through to 2021, our centenary year. Throughout 2019/20 we reached many of our key milestones and achieved some fantastic performance through our focus on operating as a responsible business. Some of our highlights included: Reducing our carbon footprint by 500 tonnes, a 6% reduction on last year. This is primarily due to reductions in electricity consumption and business travel across the Group. However, travel remains our biggest impact accounting for over 82% of the current footprint and so will be our primary focus over the next few years. We received the Silver Award in the the Ministry of Defence’s Employer Recognition Scheme and our apprentices won numerous awards across the UK in recognition of their talent and hard work. Our latest charity partnership with the British Heart Foundation totalled a value of £76,000, a total achieved in just 11 months of activity. We continued to demonstrate that we are a partner of choice, supported by the array of awards received across the business. We engaged with over 1,100 students across the UK and introduced them to a range of engineering skills, career paths and apprenticeship options through a series of school-based workshops and work experience weeks. 75% of the energy we consume across the NG Bailey estate is now sourced from low carbon or sustainable sources of energy and we generated almost 300,000 kWh of energy from our solar PV arrays. OUR CARBON REDUCTION PLAN We're actively trying to reduce our carbon footprint as a business. This document contains our Carbon Reduction Plan in support of the PPN06/21 Government disclosure. Find out more WORKING TOGETHER WITH OUR SUPPLY CHAIN We are a partner to the Supply Chain Sustainability School and we join over 120 of the UK's other major contractors, clients and suppliers in supporting the school as the recommended 'go to' sustainability resource for not only us, but our supply chain too. The school is a useful resource for everybody working in construction, facilities management, offsite and infrastructure sectors in England, Scotland and Wales, and it covers a wealth of sustainability and responsible business issues. Even better - it's free to join! If you are a member of our supply chain and would like to sign-up, you can find out more here, or alternatively you can contact our Responsibility team: responsibility@ngbailey.co.uk ACHILLES CARBON REDUCE CERTIFIED We're committed to reducing our carbon footprint WE SUPPORT THE GOALS We’re proud to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals RESPONSIBILITY REPORT 2020 Find out more about our previous responsibility performance SCIENCE-BASED TARGET PLEDGE - SBTI We have joined a select group of visionary companies that have pledged to play their part in limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C to help limit the worst impacts of climate change. © COPYRIGHT 2020 - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRIVACY NOTICE MODERN SLAVERY STATEMENT CARBON REDUCTION PLAN TERMS & CONDITIONS REGISTERED OFFICE CONTACT US SITE BY FLUIDCM.CO.UK Cookie SettingsAccept all cookies