Galliford Try is a national housebuilding and construction company delivering industry leading performance in the construction of a sustainable future.
Our Approach to CR
Corporate Responsibility is part and parcel of the way we do business. By adopting best practice across all aspects of our business, by constantly seeking initiatives which add value, by building partnerships with customers and our supply chain, by investing in the training and development of our employees and by treating health and safety and environmental issues with priority, we aim to achieve the future sustainability of our business in a responsible way.
To support the KPI’s, a commentary on our performance is given below:
We are rolling out our behavioural safety programme across the entire Group, and all of our incentive schemes now take account of health and safety performance.
Waste - As part of our commitment to the Government's Half Waste to Landfill initiative, we have expended significant resources over the last two years to reducing the quantity of construction, demolition and excavation wastes that we divert from landfill. We have amended our procurement processes, established waste performance indicators and targets and worked with external organisations such as WRAP.
Carbon – a number of initiatives lowering the emissions profile of our vehicle fleet. More detailed examination of the factors over the next 12 months as part of our carbon strategy.
Churn – we have significantly increased employee numbers in housebuilding and have had some reductions in construction. Staff churn is currently moving up from a low point following the recession.
Training days - With the increased numbers of employees in our business and our commitment to individual training plans, we have seen the number of training days significantly increase.
Timber – we have kept a continued focus on this item with the help of long term partnerships with our key suppliers.
Forward order book
Housebuilding – successful implementation of the second year in our 3 year expansion plan.
Construction - During the current downturn, the Group is concentrating on delivering an optimum margin and generating cash balances, accepting that absolute revenue levels will fall as we consciously turn away work at unsustainable prices or with an unrealistic risk profile.
We are now Associate Members of the scheme and have developed our own tools to improve practices and scoring and share learning’s from all sites across the business.
