Building homes, benefiting the community

The impact we have as a business goes far beyond the bricks and mortar. Being a family business, we understand the importance of social value in the construction industry and as a local building contractor we can have a positive influence on our local community and the environment around us.

How do we embrace social value?

We support social value through the way we do business, our relationship with our staff and the wider community plus our awareness of environmental impacts.
Some of our initiatives include:

Apprenticeships, employment and training

We are an equal opportunities employer and believe in extending the family orientated nature of our business to encompass all our staff, making our company an enjoyable and supportive workplace.

We have strong links with Hertford Regional College and have regularly employed apprentices from across Hertfordshire, providing them with the wide range of skills needed to work within the construction industry.

Over the years several past apprentices have stayed on to continue their career with us, whilst the experience and training received has given others the opportunity to go on to pursue construction careers with larger businesses.

All our employees are offered ongoing training and skills development. This cover everything from health and safety to technical and skills-based training. We also run a variety of management courses through training partners to upskill our employees. This includes the Site Supervision Safety Training Scheme (SSSTS) and the Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS).

Sustainable building and work practices

Being responsible for the environment around us and employing best practices wherever we can, is something that we endeavour to include within our work ethic. This is an ongoing process as we move towards using more hybrid vehicles and ethically sourced materials.

As part of our project planning, we always include pollution mitigation, for example through the use of dust suppression equipment, and we actively promote the reduction of waste through recycling and reusing on all our sites.

The future of the environment around us is as important to us as our business and we have recently worked on a number of green energy house building projects.  We always encourage our clients to consider the many benefits, both environmental and financial, of building energy efficient homes.

Supporting local business and community

Where possible we like to source materials locally, including both small and medium businesses in our supply chain. We also hire local subcontractors providing further work and employment opportunities within the area around us.

In addition we support the wider community in a variety of different ways. Over the years this has included attending events at Hertford Regional College to promote the construction industry, providing construction services to our local community, offering work experience opportunities through schools and making donations to local and national charities.

We believe that being committed to including social value within our work ethic is an important part of how we do business with our clients and other contractors, reassuring them that we are a responsible building company who cares about the business of what we do and our impact on the community around us.

You can read more about the positive impact of our work in our Social Value Policy.