Overview

Overall

• Established in 1955 Concrete Repairs Ltd has been continuously trading for 70 years.
• A privately owned company, with the shareholders being the current senior management team. Who between them have more than 100 year's service within the company. The management team is committed to the long-term success, with a focus on making decisions with a view to building a sustainable business, based on a wide range of experience and unrivalled commercial and technical understanding of the industry!

Management of Quality, Safety and Environment

• The health and safety of our employees and everyone else affected by our activities is fundamental to our culture and the success of our business. At CRL, we believe our success as a company is driven by our commitment and ability to keep our workforce, our business partners, our suppliers, our subcontractors and members of the public safe.
• CRL directly employ our own Safety Advisors who have the responsibility of carry out our programme of Safety Audits on our sites and issue internal safety alerts to our staff and operatives highlighting specific risks.

Technical Leadership

• A technically led contractor with a proven track record of market leading innovation to develop highly complex solutions to a variety of industry wide and project specific issues.

• Developing technically advanced solutions with Academia, Supply Chain, and Specialist Consultants, including contributing to many independent technical industry guidance documents and standards, in:
• • • Waterproofing
    • Corrosion Control
    • Structural Strengthening
    • The use of Composites within the Construction Industry

Sustainability

• At CRL we work hard to try to ensure we maintain sustainable environmental innovation and integrity into our supply chain partners.
• CRL operates as a sustainable company by the very nature that our business contributes to helping our clients by managing and extending the life of their assets through repair and refurbishment, rather than demolition, disposal and re-construction.
• As a company, we at CRL will continually strive to operate in a sustainable manor by developing new business practices, policies and procedures to support and enhance our business both now and in future.

• CRL Has a published Carbon Reduction Plan which leads the many initiatives being driven by the company to reduce carbon, including:
• • • Use of HVO Fuel
    • Bio propane
    • Electric heating
    • Use of green electric tariffs
    • Following our procurement guidelines around welfare, power, materials and suppliers

• Measurement of carbon emissions is carried out as noted within BCA and PPN60 report and reported at Quarterly Board SHEQT and Management Meetings, by our Group Sustainability Manager

Social Value

• As a company we are looking to actively engage in community run projects in the geographical areas that we work alongside our employees, Clients and Supply Chain.  These have included;
• • • Establishing dedicated Social Value Team.
    • Supporting Clients and Supply Chain Partners with Social Value Projects.
    • Running regular stand down days for staff.
    • Encouraging Employees to make use of their 3 community days with proposals of projects to undertake.
    • Looking to engage and employ ex-military personnel.
    • Working with Charitable Foundations to provide mobile defibrillators in Police response vehicles.
• As part of our new Social Value Strategy, CRL is constantly exploring new ways of working with and supporting our communities. One of our new initiatives is to partner each of our offices (and corresponding regions) with a local charity or community organisation chosen by our employees. Through this initiative, we plan to offer long-term and tailored support to our local communities.