ESG
Environmental and Sustainability Policy

The company’s environmental & sustainability policy is designed to reflect the environmental needs and responsibilities of the company’s activities.

In particular, the policy indicates the organisation’s commitment to continual environmental improvement, the prevention of pollution, conformance to legislation and other requirements in relation to our environmental aspects.

Additae Valorem Ltd continue to assess the environmental impacts of their operations and review targets in order to promote responsibility for the environment within the organisation and implement the policy and supporting manual at all levels within the company.

We always endeavour to specify sustainable products and are working closely especially with our manufacturers partners to explore and utilise their end to end recycling options.

The company is committed to ensuring that our services are developed in a way that is complimentary to this policy.

We are currently ISO 9001 accredited and working towards ISO14001 and SKA accreditations.

Governance

Additae Valorem is ISO 9001 accredited.

We have developed and implemented a quality management system (QMS), which uses ISO 9001:2015 as a framework that allows our organisation to document and improve our practices in order to better satisfy the needs and expectations of our customers, stakeholders and interested parties.

The manual describes the quality management system, delineates authorities, inter relationships and responsibilities of personnel operating within the management system.

The manual also provides references to procedures and activities that also comprise our quality management system. The quality management system meets the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 and uses the Plan, Do, Check and Act approach to process planning.

Corporate and Social Responsibility

Additae Valorem Ltd recognise that we must integrate our business values and operations to meet the expectations of our stakeholders. They include customers, employees, suppliers, the community and the environment.

  • We recognise that our social, economic and environmental responsibilities to these stakeholders are integral to our business. We aim to demonstrate these responsibilities through our actions and within our corporate policies.
  • We take seriously all feedback that we receive from our stakeholders and where possible, maintain open dialogue to ensure that we fulfil the requirements outlined within this policy.
  • We shall be open and honest in communicating our strategies, targets, performance and governance to our stakeholders in our continual commitment to sustainable development.
  • The Managing Director is responsible for the implementation of this policy and will make the necessary resources available to realise our corporate responsibilities. The responsibility for our performance on this policy rests with all employees throughout the company.

Our partnership focus:

  • We shall ensure a high level of business performance while minimising and effectively managing risk ensuring that we uphold the values of honesty, partnership and fairness in our relationships with all our stakeholders.
  • Our contracts will clearly set out the agreed terms, conditions and the basis of our relationship and will operate in a way that safeguards against unfair business practices.
  • We shall encourage suppliers and contractors to adopt responsible business policies and practices.
  • We shall encourage dialogue with local communities for mutual benefit.
  • We will register and resolve customer complaints in accordance with our standards of service.
  • We shall support and encourage our employees to help local community organisations and activities in our region.
  • We shall operate an equal opportunities policy for all present and potential future employees and will offer our employees clear and fair terms of employment and provide resources to enable their continual development.
  • We shall maintain a clear and fair employee remuneration policy and shall maintain forums for employee consultation and business involvement.
  • We shall provide safeguards to ensure that all employees of whatever nationality, colour, race or religious belief are treated with respect and without sexual, physical or mental harassment.
  • We shall provide and strive to maintain, a clean, healthy and safe working environment in line with our Health and Safety policy and safe systems of work.
  • We shall develop Environmental policies and objectives as part of the business planning cycle.
People

Our strength sits with the capability of our talented team, their many years of industry experience, outstanding portfolio of delivered schemes and their ingrained desire to work alongside our clients and our suppliers with true collaborative spirit.

We continue to invest in the teams , training and development and empower all individuals to contribute and share in the success and growth of the business. We are entirely inclusive and non-discriminatory across all aspects of the business and especially proud of the gender balance across all levels of seniority within the organisation.

Suppliers & Subcontractors

We work in partnership with our suppliers and subcontractors and consider them to be a seamless extension of our business.

All partners are fully vetted as part of our supplier and subcontractor set up process.

Quality Policy

Additae Valorem Ltd is a design and build fit-out company whose stakeholders share a close, longstanding relationship with extensive experience in the commercial fit-out sector. The company performs two primary roles;(a) to manage the provision of design and build fit out solutions to commercial property managers nationally and (b) the supply and installation of commercial office furniture. Our services are high quality, client focussed, delivered by a small and agile management team serving a range of long term, repeat customers. We are committed to grow by delivering the highest quality solutions for our customers.

We aim to achieve the above by implementing a quality management system (QMS) that complies with the international standard ISO 9001:2015. We also commit to monitor the effectiveness of our quality system and to act with integrity to continually improve our operations and to meet the requirements of our customers, as well as our legal and regulatory and any other applicable requirements.

The scope of our QMS is “design, furniture supply and the management of fit-out solutions for commercial property”.

All personnel within the company are responsible for the quality of their work. Additae Valorem provides training and/or support and has established systems to assist all personnel to achieve the standards required. While we endeavour to consistently meet and exceed our customers’ expectations, we recognise that we may not always
achieve our own standards.

The policy, organisation and procedures necessary to achieve the requirements are described in our Business Processes and Controls Document. Quality objectives of the company are agreed annually at Management Review Meetings and reviewed for effectiveness. At these meetings, we ensure that this policy and the quality objectives remain compatible with the strategic direction and the purpose and context
of our organisation.

Our Quality Manager, Paul Downing, is responsible for monitoring the quality system and reports regularly to the Senior Management team on the system’s implementation, status and effectiveness.