Our Social Values

Enhancing our communities through social value

We care about our clients, our projects, our workforce, our community and our environment for a sustainable future. We are committed to making our world a better place through a no harm culture.

It is the strength of our combined values that drives forward our culture and success.

We care

We are a passionate, inclusive team that is focussed on developing the people who join us. We nurture a culture of exceptional performance balanced with a supportive, mentoring environment where mental health and wellbeing, upskilling and collaborative engagement are promoted. We are proud to be a company where people can feel valued, respected and safely thrive in their work. We drive positive impact for our local communities and the environment around us, responsibly sourcing our M&E projects with the most efficient, sustainable solutions. People and our environment matter.

We are fair

We believe in fair and equal opportunities across our teams welcoming diverse workers from all different backgrounds so that everyone feels included. Nurturing this culture of inclusivity helps us properly reflect the communities that surround us and builds social strength. Fairness is reflected in our pro-active recruitment of the best industry talents, rewarding appropriately those with demonstrable industry knowledge, skills and professional aptitude. Integrity is also at the heart of everything we do, building trust with our clients and stakeholders: we strive to always be professional, honest, respectful and transparent across all our company disciplines.

We implement

We protect our workforce by implementing exceptional health and safety standards and ensure professional mental health support is available through our partner, Able Futures. We feed the grass roots of our industry by providing school’s with work experience and offering outstanding apprenticeship opportunities across age and gender groups. Our flexible approach towards further education and training encourages personal development. We constantly review our supply chain providing regional procurement, supporting local manufacturing and wholesaling. Supporting community is part of our mission and social responsibility. We’re enthusiastic in our outreach to promote and fundraise for local charities.

We deliver

We lead with a positive approach, always solution seeking, innovating, and constantly striving to deliver for our clients and stakeholders quality projects on schedule, budget and plan every time. These attributes enable us to offer a streamlined turn-key MEP service. Our strengths to deliver lie in our broadly skilled labour resource, experienced layers of senior project management and a value focussed leadership. We are proud to integrate these attributes to deliver our clients the service they are looking for.

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Employment & Training

We are very proud of our in-house development record, with 60% of our current office staff beginning their employment at site operative level.

Throughout our company’s growth we have mentored, trained and developed our employees into passionate and highly qualified professionals, who have the necessary knowledge and skills to undertake tasks.

If you want to find out more about the opportunities we offer, check out our careers page.

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Health & Safety

Health and safety is at the forefront of the company’s values. We take the safety of our employees, colleagues and members of the public very seriously. In recognition of our efforts, we were awarded the health and safety Provider of the Year Award by one of our prominent clients.

Our health and safety policy, procedures and standards are produced, implemented, monitored, audited, and regularly reviewed to ensure compliance with the legal duties imposed by the Health and Safety at Work Act, along with relevant health and safety regulations made under the act.

We retain an independent Health and Safety Consultant to ensure legislative compliance.

We believe that the health and safety of our employees is not just a legal duty, but our moral responsibility. We go above and beyond what is expected to ensure everyone who may come into contact with our working locations is protected.

We take a proactive approach to raise awareness of the safety risks associated with our installations by involving all neighbours and stakeholders associated with the project.

DL M&E Building Services is accredited within the Contractors Health and Safety Assessment (CHAS) and Constructionline (Gold accredited) schemes.

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Sustainability

Sustainability in design has positive long-term effects on both the environment and the economy.

Utilising renewable energy systems, achieving good BREAM ratings and using best practice on site which makes the process of construction more sustainable and also improves your environmental impact during the life of your building. That’s why our designers incorporate sustainable technologies in all their projects: for your benefit, and the benefit of future generations.

If a project is to achieve an effective balance between economics and environmental and social amenity, then sustainability must be considered in all its dimensions and embedded into the design and building process from inception.

In an industry that is always growing and changing, sustainability remains a developing issue that is always being advanced.

We will work with you to achieve your targets for sustainability, and we always invite our clients to input to the design process with their own ideas and innovations. Our talented team will then provide you with the best advice possible, using their expertise to plan and build your perfect sustainable project.

With our team’s performance which is continually assessed and monitored, you are sure to be satisfied with the solution provided.

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Charity & Social Values

Our community outreach programmes are undertaken throughout the year. Whether it be through charity fundraising events or providing services, we are very proud to have helped the local community and continue to support many local charities. Some of our most recent causes has been Bolton Hospice and Macmillan Cancer Support.

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Quality & Management

DL M&E Building Services is an ISO 9001:2015 accredited company who provide the best quality possible in every aspect of our business. We continually develop our Quality Management System to ensure that we provide the best service to our clients. We do this by involving our staff in the application of good quality, and we have a dedicated team who quality control our documents and processes. The nature of our client base demands that emphasis is placed on the provision of management experience, expertise, capability and reliability, in order to consistently achieve the quality standards specified and expected by them.

DL M&E Building Services objectives are to:

  • continuously seek to improve the service available to our clients by a planned systematic approach to the identification and solution of quality problems when they arise.
  • utilise the Quality Management System to eliminate the occurrence of defects through a proactive approach to the prediction and solution of quality problems before they occur.
  • achieve the specified requirements in the most cost-effective manner.
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Environment

The construction industry impacts the environment through waste generation, noise, dust and energy use, and DL M&E Building Services are dedicated to reducing the environmental impact of construction works by complying with the most current environmental legislation of the UK.

We recognise that when undertaking construction activities it can affect the environment, therefore since our inception we have proactively sought to reduce this impact.

We are stringent about our recycling efforts both on and off site and are always developing new ways to ensure that recyclable materials are disposed of responsibly.

We also encourage our suppliers to reduce their environmental impact by stimulating debate and working closely with them to identify ways to reduce our impact as an industry.

If you want to find out more about reducing your businesses environmental impact, please consult the government guidelines.

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Supporting community

Our 8 commitments to social value

Here at DL we are passionate about contributing a share of our success and growth into society, making communities stronger through our fair and care approach.

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Social value enhances our workplace culture

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Society benefits through employment and charity support

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We build a more sustainable future for our children

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Supporting our local community

If you’d like to know about or help support one of our fundraising initiatives, see our charity news for current activities.

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Mentoring environment

We nurture a culture of exceptional performance balanced with a supportive, mentoring environment. If you'd like to learn more about careers, apprenticeships or work experience with us then see our careers page.

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