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Sustainability

We continue to raise awareness of the importance of meeting the environmental and social challenges of the 21st century within our businesses and amongst our clients, subcontractors and suppliers.

We are delivering projects that add to our sustainability credentials, adopting the principles of our Group Sustainability Strategy and following defined policies.

The business recognizes that it must continue to develop a culture that places sustainability alongside other key deliverables of safety, customer service and quality.

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7 steps to sustainability
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Strategy

Our strategy considers the ever-growing demand for more socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable buildings delivered by responsible businesses that implement positive measures with respect to the social, environmental, and economic impact of their actions.

It starts with the concept of the ‘triple bottom line’ – People, Planet, Profit – and underpins our continuing desire to collaborate with our customers and supply chain to make a real difference, meeting our corporate responsibilities and proactively addressing our 7 steps to sustainability:

  • Carbon Reduction

  • Waste Management

  • Sustainable Procurement

  • Respecting Natural Resources

  • Community Engagement

  • Training and Development

  • Communication

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Customers

We will listen to the views of our customers and take appropriate action in support of our vision to be widely acclaimed for industry leading performance and customer service.

People

We will respect the views of our employees and provide a safe and healthy working environment for everybody working on our sites and in our offices. The quality of our workforce is a key factor in striving to meet our vision. We recognize this through our goal of being the employer of choice; endeavoring to provide rewarding careers not just jobs. Despite the challenges faced within the construction sector, we will continue to place people development high on our agenda. We will continue to prioritize training, maintain our Investors in People Silver accreditation, and survey our employees for their opinions.

Community

We will support the communities in which we work, engaging in consultation, respecting diversity, being sensitive to local needs and contributing to economic well-being. We are committed to keeping disruption to a minimum and following the Considerate Constructor’s principles and measures. Initiatives that benefit society and local communities feature strongly in our approach to corporate responsibility and will include, not only financial assistance, but also contributions of time and resource.

Environment

We will seek to minimize the impacts of our activities on the environment and communities in which we operate, developing solutions to ensure continuous improvement in our environmental performance. We undertake to raise environmental awareness amongst our employees and supply chain to be less wasteful in the use of resources. Not only will we seek to maximize reuse and recycling we will reduce waste through fully considered planning and design.

Suppliers

We will create sustainable supply chains based on integrity and respect; working in partnership in pursuit of best practice in a safe environment.

Environmental Best

Sustainable Sourcing

Construction consumes significant amounts of resources such as steel, concrete, cement, and timber, often in ways that are inefficient or unsustainable. At Langstone we have put in place Sustainable Procurement Policies that encourage our employees and supply chain to review their consumption of resources such that we source only what we need. Knowing where materials come from and identifying the ’chain of custody’ is equally as important. Our preference is to procure products that are manufactured and can be used in an environmentally and socially responsible way and which are accredited to a recognized environmental standard.

Where possible we will endeavor to identify and offer sustainable alternative products to our customers and give preference to local suppliers and subcontractors.

We continue to raise awareness with our employees and our suppliers of the environmental and social effects of materials procurement and ensure that environmental credentials are considered throughout the supply chain appraisal process.

Carbon Footprint

We will put measures in place to continue to reduce annual business mileage and review maximum allowable emissions across the fleet. We will continue our commitment to green tariff energy supply, increasing the use of energy saving cabins on site and seeking additional ways to reduce our carbon footprint.

Reuse, Reduce, Recycle

Our project specific Site Waste Management Plans (SWMP) are key documents in our drive to eliminate waste going to landfill and in finding new opportunities to reuse or recycle waste materials through efficient design and careful management of the construction process. Each SWMP will set out measures for minimizing waste, maximizing recycling and for dealing with problem areas; all designed to ensure that we meet or exceed our target waste recycling rate across the Group.

At Langstone we have developed long-term strategic alliances with key waste service providers—using their feedback and information from site management returns we are able to record monthly recycling figures.

We will continually look for opportunities to reuse, reduce or recycle, materials on or off site.

Economic and Business

Expectations

With increased expectations for the construction industry to improve its environmental and social performance it has never been more important to build upon our achievements to date and embrace sustainability within the Group’s business strategy and corporate values.

Business Planning

We recognize that by adopting sustainability best practice there is an opportunity to deliver long-term benefits to the business, the Langstone brand and our shareholders. By applying our vision as much to sustainability as anything else we can aspire to deliver industry leading performance in all that we do.

When business planning, we set targets relating to financial performance, workload, customers, training, development, and growth. Our approach to sustainability, as detailed within this strategy, encompasses all these areas, and will influence corporate governance, management systems and procurement policies.

Everyone plays a part in achieving our sustainability objectives - therefore we are committed to collaborating with our employees, customers, and supply chain to raise environmental and sustainability standards in the built environment. We are in a position where we are able and willing to understand the challenges, suggest alternatives and influence the outcome.

Shaping the Business

In a world where resources are becoming more constrained, using our sustainability strategy to help shape our business to be more adaptive to change, more efficient and more responsive to the challenges ahead will be a key factor in the Group’s continuing growth.

Communicating both internally and externally is fundamental in demonstrating how the business is progressing with its sustainability strategy and how, by adopting sustainable construction methods, whole-life costs can be reduced. We communicate our intentions and progress externally via our website and internally via the businesses Information Management System.

Business Commitment

In committing to our sustainability objectives and targets we will adopt an open, collaborative, professional and socially responsible approach to business; aiming to provide our customers with a quality of service that reflects our vision of being widely acclaimed for industry leading performance.

7 steps to sustainability

The way in which we plan, procure, construct and maintain our built environment is critical to our quality of life now and in the future. At Langstone, we have identified 7 strategic areas which we believe are key to making a positive contribution to sustainability, ensuring that we remain focused on ‘building for generations to come.

Carbon Reduction

Making buildings more energy efficient, increasing use of low or zero carbon technologies, reducing site energy consumption, vehicle emissions, travel distances and the need to travel.

Waste Management

Reducing waste, re-using and recycling where possible and ultimately sending zero waste to landfill.

Sustainable Procurement

Using low impact, low embodied energy products, sourced locally and responsibly from renewable sources.

Respecting Natural Resources

Using natural resources more efficiently in buildings and in the processes, we undertake; tackling water and raw materials use, biodiversity, and pollution.

Community Engagement

Collaborating with our clients, suppliers, and community organizations to ensure that our activities support local employment and positively contribute to the wellbeing of the communities in which we work.

Training and Development

Committing to increasing the sustainability and environmental awareness of our employees and our supply chain.

Communication

Improving internal and external communication methods and platforms to ensure effective dissemination of information, the sharing and adoption of industry best practice and consideration of new and emerging technologies.

Carbon

Through innovative practices and eco-friendly solutions, Langstone Construction strive to minimise our carbon footprint, promote energy efficiency, and prioritise the use of sustainable materials.

By adopting these practices and solutions, Langstone Construction Group are a Carbon Neutral business.

Carbon neutrality is important for our industry as it helps mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

It demonstrates environmental responsibility, ensures compliance with regulations, and can lead to cost savings and efficiency through energy-saving practices.

Environment

Our Environmental Management System is ISO 14001 certified and we are dedicated to monitoring and seeking to reduce our energy use and minimise waste through reducing, reusing and recycling throughout the business.

We embed the principles of sustainability within our procurement activities to ensure that only value-for-money products are selected and that in all cases a balanced consideration of social, ethical, environmental and economic impacts are undertaken throughout the procurement process.

Langstone Construction Group is actively involved in working with consultant teams to consider renewable alternatives and solutions on projects.

Commitment

We are committed to being a responsible business and fully recognise and hold ourselves accountable for the impact of our activities on the environment, the communities where we work and our teams.

Our Commitment

  • Ensure materials are sourced from ‘legal and sustainable’ sources

  • Implement a chain of custody from the supply route to the final point of usage

  • Guarantee compliance with demands for ethically sourced products

  • Limit the usage of materials from non-renewable sources and minimise the embodied impact of products on the environment

  • Use suppliers that are committed to sourcing products responsibly and operate a code of conduct

  • Implement our Responsible Procurement Policy via certification of material supply and continually strive to improve our sustainability performance

  • Minimise the impact on the sustainability of our construction, office and transportation activities

  • Make clients, subcontractors and suppliers aware of our Sustainability Policy, and encourage them to adopt sound sustainable management practices

  • Our sites incorporate sustainable practices including site offices have an EPC rating of B or higher, PIR lighting, reducing landfill waste by recycling construction waste, rainwater harvesting, recycling facilities for operatives, linking in with local recycling centres

  • Waste contractors audited to support our target of zero waste to landfill

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