Building sustainability
We aim to ensure all our projects minimise their impact on our environment, our developments frequently include:
- Timber frame construction from sustainable sources
- Greywater harvesting systems and sewage treatment plants
- Non-dig road designs around trees
- Photo-voltaic solar heating systems and ground-source heat pumps
- “Living-roof” designs for industrial and office unit applications
Investing in our workforce
We actively encourage and support our workforce to train and gain further skills. We are members of the 5% club, a worthwhile scheme in which companies aim to employ 5% of their workforce in ‘earn and learn’ positions in order to support economic growth, encourage diversity and inclusion, increase social mobility and alleviate poverty.
We have also signed up to the Building Mental Health Charter whereby we aim to support our staff and help tackle the mental health crisis in construction.
Advocating and supporting biodiversity
Nationwide Engineering currently have two Honeybee colonies based in South Manchester that are thriving and producing large quantities of honey. Commencing in 2017 with a single colony, we bred another queen in 2018 and now have two growing colonies within our small apiary.
Our investment in bee keeping is part of our drive to positively encourage and increase biodiversity. As our experience and confidence in bee keeping grows, our intention is to expand our bee keeping activities to other areas of the UK, based close to our offices. We are also exploring bee keeping on some of our larger sites where the programme spans the entire season.
The business is investing in training and offers all employees the opportunity to learn how to handle bees, something that has proved to be immensely rewarding and effective in improving personal wellbeing.
Active in the Community
Nationwide Engineering is proud to be supporting local companies and community and charitable organisations throughout the UK and in fact we have won awards for our community works including the prestigious Institution of Civil Engineers Henry Palmer Award.
We always aim to become directly involved in the communities in which we work through a variety of means, particularly seeking local suppliers. Not only does this positively impact these communities, but usually assists in reducing our carbon footprint by reducing transport distances.