• Founded: 1852 – UK's oldest Tier One contractor
  • 2024 Turnover: £1.2 billion
  • Geography: Offices and projects across England and Wales
  • Awards: Five-time winner of UK's most prestigious business awards
    • 3 Queen's Awards for Enterprise
    • 2 King's Awards for Enterprise

Recent Recognition

  • Jason Hunt, Project Director, named CIOB's Construction Manager of the Year 2025 for leading the Bristol Beacon project
  • Stockport Interchange was named Project of the Year (over £50m) at the Construction News Awards 2025

Why We're Different: Workplace Excellence

Recognition as Best Employer

  • 4th place – Financial Times Best Companies (Europe's top 1,000)
  • Construction's best big company – Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025
  • Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality – The Times 2024

Professional Accreditations

  • Platinum – The 5% Club (over 10% of people in earn-and-learn schemes)
  • Platinum – Investors in People (Construction business)
  • Gold – Investors in People (Interiors business)

Longevity, loyalty and commitment of our people

  • Nearly 700 of our people have over ten years’ service
  • Over 11,000 years of combined service for our customers
  • 110 centuries of collective experience, knowledge, and commitment to our customers.

Our People Commitment

  • Vision: "Career of a lifetime" – developing skills, experience, and personal growth
  • Goal: Gender parity across management levels by 2030
  • Mission: To be the UK's best contractor to work for

Environmental Leadership: Now or Never Strategy

Brilliant Buildings Targets

  • 2030: All new buildings and major refurbishments achieve net zero operational carbon
  • 2030: Buildings future-climate ready, optimising health and wellbeing
  • 2040: All buildings delivered with net zero embodied carbon
  • 2040: Supply chain achieves net zero operational carbon

Better Planet: 2030 Commitments

  • Zero-carbon company without offsetting
  • Zero direct emissions from operations (100% electric fleet, renewable energy only)
  • Zero avoidable waste generation
  • 50% reduction in construction water usage
  • Environmental net gain on all projects
  • 100,000 trees planted supporting communities and climate action

Environmental Progress to Date

  • 57% reduction in absolute carbon emissions since 2018 baseline
  • 84% reduction in carbon emissions relative to turnover since 2010
  • 18% cut in energy intensity relative to turnover since 2023
  • 82 projects completed embodied carbon assessments
  • 238 supply chain partners have net zero plans aligned with our 2040 ambitions

Social Impact: Building Better Communities

2024 Social Value Delivery

  • £5.3 million spent with social businesses
  • £410 million social return on investment generated
  • 100% of social value plans co-created with customers
  • 3,000 people supported through social mobility programmes
  • 92% of beneficiaries report high programme impact

Team Engagement in Social Value

  • 80% of our people participated in social value activities
  • 14,500 hours of employee time donated to local causes