Welcome to our 2018 Sustainable Development Review. These web pages show the progress we made in 2017 towards our ambition of being a leader in sustainable development.
Being a leader in sustainable development
Welcome to our 2018 Sustainable Development Review. These web pages show the progress we made in 2017 towards our ambition of being a leader in sustainable development.
Ever since our company was founded, way back in 1852, we’ve sought to be a more sustainable business. If we ever needed proof that this was the right approach, we just have to look at events over the last year.
2017 was a great year for sustainability at Willmott Dixon. We smashed our 2020 carbon emissions target, three years early – and have made significant progress against our waste and community targets too.
Why Sustainability Works
7% of our people are in formalised apprenticeships, sponsored students or on graduate development schemes
invested in our people’s learning and development - around £1,500 per employee
hours of staff time invested in local communities
amount paid in green bonuses to employees choosing low-emissions cars
Only contractor to achieve the Carbon Trust’s Supply Chain Standard
non-hazardous construction waste diverted from landfill
Our 2017 performance
Back in 2013 we launched Transforming Tomorrow, our Sustainable Development Strategy, which identified 142 actions for our business. By the end of 2017, we had either achieved or were on track to achieve over three-quarters of them.
In 2017 we de-merged our development and property maintenance businesses. These have since been re-branded EcoWorld London and Fortem respectively, and they are now developing their own strategies.
Therefore, during 2017, we worked with people across the business to review and update our Strategy, so that it reflected our progress, changes within the business and continued to help drive our performance.
This section of the Review focuses on our performance against our Strategy targets, ambitions and actions. Click on the sections below to find out more:
Sustainability at Willmott Dixon
As a leader in sustainable development we have robust systems and processes in place. This section provides signposts to the structures which support our sustainability endeavours.