Placemaking with purpose
Our purpose is to create inspiring places that enhance the communities in which we all live, learn, work, play, care and protect.
**Placemaking
with purpose**
Creating the inspiring places where we all
live, learn, work, play, care and protect
Who we are
Placemaking with purpose
Our purpose is to create inspiring places that enhance the communities in which we all live, learn, work, play, care and protect.
This means it's not just about the buildings we construct, but the impact these places have on people's lives, on a daily basis, right across the UK.
From schools to universities, leisure centres to hotels, offices to factories, and hospitals to care homes - we walk every step of the way with you in their creation, delivering exceptional experiences, and everything in-between.
You deserve value way beyond the build, so that's why everything we do, is deep rooted with purpose to make a difference now, and for generations to come.
Click on the video above to get a quick insight into what drives us
An infinite journey
Our vision and values effectively defines our infinite journey.
It helps guide us in the same direction, for the benefit of our people, for all of our stakeholders, and for our planet as well.
Our five core values are shared across Morgan Sindall Group and mean that you, as our customer, get the same experiences, wherever you work with us:
Creating a better built environment
Morgan Sindall Construction is part of Morgan Sindall Group plc; nine businesses who specialise in all elements of the built environment - construction, infrastructure, fit out, property services, housing, regeneration and development.
It's decentralised philosophy empowers each business to make the decisions that benefit the customers, colleagues and communities in the towns, cities and regions they deliver. Turning over more than £3 billion, the group employs over 6,000 people, working to create long-term, sustainable value in the built environment.
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Key stats
- £3bn turnover
- Top 3 UK contractor
- 6,600 people
- 64% carbon reduction since 2010
- 2030 Net Zero commitment
- A-rated CDP business
- 68% social value ROI
- £294m average daily net cash
- Investors In People Platinum
- Associate CCS members
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Financial security
Morgan Sindall Group, our parent company, released its full year results in February 2022, posting a record set of figures with revenue up 6% and a forward order book up 4% to £8.6 billion.
These results, along with the strong cash balance, enables our business to continue to make the right decisions, that benefit all our stakeholders, for the long term.
Watch our latest results video
2021 has been an excellent year for the Group, with a record set of results. Group revenue rose 6% from 2020, delivering an adjusted operating profit of £131.3m (FY 2020: £68.5m) on revenue of £3.2bn (FY 2020: £3.0bn). The Group reported a secured order book of £8.6bn, up 4% on the year end. With a strong balance sheet and net cash of £358m (FY 2020: £333m), the Group is confident of achieving another good year of progress in 2022."
John Morgan, Chief Executive, Morgan Sindall Group plc
Responsible business
Positive impacts for people,
communities and our planet
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Being a responsible business
Building on our five total commitments we've developed a Responsible Business Plan to define how we put these commitments in to place.
Our objectives are aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and because of this, our key objectives are often the key drivers for our customers and stakeholders too. The outcomes from the plan will feed directly into positive sustainability and social value achievements in the communities we work.
Our five total commitments:
- Protecting People
- Developing People
- Improving he environment
- Working with supply chain
- Enhancing communities
Decarbonising communities
Decarbonising Communities is fundamentally about leaving a climate positive impact on the environment.
It is our unique approach designed to support customers in achieve their environmental ambitions and help meet the company's own target of Net Zero Carbon by 2030. Click below to read the detail behind the strategy:
The approach will harness the combined expertise of our customers, employees and supply chain partners to change the way buildings are designed and constructed, in order to reduce the amount of carbon.
Crucially, this will include a focus on reducing carbon emissions within their supply chain and applying science-based benchmarks to reduce whole life carbon on projects, in order to meet the 1.5 degree global warming target, alongside UK government targets.
How important is this approach?
- Absolutely Imperative
- It's part of the journey
- Unimportant
Reducing carbon
with CarboniCa
Underpinning Decarbonising Communities is CarboniCa, an innovative carbon calculation tool.
This allows project teams to work with customers to estimate, manage and reduce whole life carbon emissions through the design, construction and entire lifecycle of an asset. The easy to use tool has been externally validated by Arup to the latest industry standards and is flexible to allow for the different project types being undertaken.
Aligned to the UK Green Building Council framework for net zero buildings and the aims of the Construction Playbook, it will help upskill and empower clients to make environmentally friendly decisions based on meaningful and robust data.
It is amongst the most sophisticated and complete
tools that I have seen, which
nicely balances complexity and
simplicity for most use cases.
Terry Ellis, Senior Consultant, Arup
Benefits
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Easy to use, no expertise needed
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Robust with clear logic and method
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Certified by numerous third parties
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Customisable to your project
Measurable
and tangible social value
On every project, we promise to plan for, deliver and measure the social value investment a project creates.
At the beginning of your scheme, our social value manager will support our project teams with a social value toolkit, starting with the collaborative development of a social value charter for the project.
Upon completion, social value is monetised by using Morgan Sindall Group's Social Value Bank. This gives each customer a detailed report evidencing the outcomes from the project.
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Social Value Toolkit
- Social value charter
- SV action plan
- CarboniCa
- Carbon maturity matrix
- Work radar
- Respoinsible Procurement Framework
- SV design management toolkit
- Carbon Literacy Project
- Social Value Bank
Watch the video above to see Social Value in action.
Tree by tree: The Blenheim Estate
Working in partnership with the Blenheim Estate and in conjunction with Grown in Britain we are creating nine new woodlands, planting more than a quarter of a million trees to transform land as part of an ambitious series of sustainability initiatives.
This project is the first scheme planted under the Forest Canopy Foundation (FCF) - a not-for-profit committed to demonstrating technical rigour and quality in woodland creation.
Far from a quick win, this will be a legacy project which, while it will have immediate impact in terms of biodiversity, soil erosion prevention and cleaner water, will sequester 22,000 tonnes of carbon across a quarter of a century.
Perfect Delivery
Partnerships and projects
Perfect Delivery
Creating sought-after, exceptional experiences for our customers and stakeholders drives everything we do on our projects.
Perfect Delivery is a philosophy which provides a common set of principles that apply to everyone and everything we do.
It began life almost 20 years ago and has been developing year on year to provide the best for our customers.
Today, in 2022, it defines five customer commitments, split into two sections; delivering the product, and exceptional experience.
In addition to defining a unique customer charter of objectives for your project, each customer commitment is measured during pre-construction, construction, handover and during the customer care phase, to ensure we are delivering sought-after experiences.
Watch Perfect Delivery in action
Frameworks and partnerships
Complementing the expertise of our construction project delivery is our Integrated Strategic Business (ISB) team, who work with key strategic partners and frameworks to generate tailor-made financial solutions to bring urban regeneration and long-term partnerships to life.
Working with fellow Morgan Sindall Group companies, such as Muse Developments and Lovell, we can help secure funding and joint ventures.
Offering our customers a choice of procurement routes is incredibly important. Our business is currently engaged on 49 frameworks across the UK.
In addition to local and regional frameworks, we have won places on major national frameworks that are supported by a team of dedicated framework managers and directors.
Learn more here
The JV with Morgan Sindall has been instrumental in the heart of Slough strategy. The strength of this partnership and the vision you collaboratively create is fundamental, it's innovative and it drives benefit across a whole range of different dependencies, which is fantastic. It is just such a success story - I would say that this is transformational."
Josie Wragg, Chief Executive, Slough Borough Council
Key frameworks
These key frameworks are in addition to the local and regional frameworks we are engaged upon with public and private sector partners across the UK.
- Scape
- Pagabo
- NHS Shared Business Services
- Procure Partnerships
- Southern Construction Framework
- Department for Education
- Crown Commercial Services
- Procurement for Housing
- LHC
- GCHQ
- Pagabo for Business
- Scape Venture
Key Sectors
Our purpose is to create inspiring places that enhance the communities in which we all live, learn, work, play, care and protect. Click on each image to find out more.
Education
Health
Leisure & Community
Commercial & Retail
Residential
Industrial
Defence
Emergency Services & Custodial
Intelligent Solutions
Bringing value to our customers and consultants
Modern methods of construction
The proposed rewards for successfully harnessing modern methods of construction are many. Increased productivity, decreased carbon footprint, faster delivery and a greatly increased building capacity to name a few.
Working with a specialist supply chain, we have successfully harnessed a diverse range of modern and offsite construction methods.
To maximise success for our customers, the MMC choice begins at project inception - what are the key deliverables in terms of cost, quality, time and design, to make sure we pick the right construction method for the project's desired end result.
Hear how modular delivered a better way at Highfields Spencer Academy in Derby
Digital construction
Improving certainty for better outcomes
The practical use of technology is no longer an optional benefit, but a necessity. Tried and tested methodology, coupled with directly employed Digital Implementation Managers, produces better outcomes every time.
Digital Construction enables the generation and management of information on a construction project during its entire life cycle to create digital and built assets. Digital Construction is an evolution of Building Information Modelling (BIM).
Using augmented, virtual and digital reality technologies, our BIM Implementation Managers are helping customers produce results through three key phases:
Design | Visualising your building before we've even broken ground, helping you experience it and eradicate risks early
Build | BIM technologies providing everyone access to rich information which improves certainty
Operate | Delivering a physical and digital building, enabling you to operate and maintain your building
Collaboration, realism and discipline are absolutely fundamental in ensuring success in a construction project. By getting everyone around the table early, we can design only what meets the brief, eliminate waste and the need for value engineering late on, whilst also provide a shopping list of 'nice to haves' to help clients make informed decisions.
Interpreting a cost plan carefully into a design brief is fundamental to the success of a project.
The only way you can do that right is have all the disciplines around the table to interpolate that brief at the earliest stage and communication here is key to get it right at the outset."
To discuss the topic in more detail, we brought together a round table of experts to debate what design to cost really means, and how the industry can move forward. You can read more in the white paper opposite.
Four top takeaways
- Interrogate the brief thoroughly; be brave with clients
- Early collaboration with contractors and supply chain
- Ring fence non-negotiable elements
- Good design management is critical to stop the design getting divorced from the cost plan
Read some of our latest research and thought leadership by clicking on the relevant white paper reports below:
