For Better Living
More than just the shelter you get from a Langley roof, we care about the fundamentals of living – air, water, energy, climate, biodiversity, waste, well-being and the community around us.
We’re driven by sustainability both within our business and through our product and service solutions. Our vision of ‘For better living’ is for our employees, our customers and the wider world.
There’s six operational factors to our sustainability strategy:
1: Product Development
Look to innovate and improve roofing systems by using more sustainable raw materials to make our products or make products more efficient as to extend the product life on a roof. Langley to also extend into providing eco solutions in PV and green roof materials.
2: Design
Langley to incorporate environmental and sustainability factors into their design process to complement the already inherent building safety in design.
3: Maintenance and Data Capture
Maintenance to be driven as part of the sustainability strategy to increase the life cycle of the roofing systems. Monitoring roofs via our CRM system and client portals, as well as planned live CO2 monitoring of green roofs to become a Langley service offering.
4: Operations & Training
Sustainability to be more focused through our dealing with supply chain, allowing better focus moving forward on scope two & three emissions. Better educate staff, clients, and contractors in environmental and sustainability matters.
5: Engagement with Employees
Initiate a group sustainability committee to encourage staff from all levels to be part of brining the plan to life. It will be the duties of reps to engage with and encourage staff to be involved in improvements in hope to build a sustainability culture within the Langley Group.
6: Promotion, Usage & Social Value
Work with Director of Social Value and People Development and Head of Marketing to deliver and celebrate our sustainability commitments with clients, customers, contractors, and communities.
Developing our sustainability strategy
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are 17 Goals to transform our world. We are focusing on four of the seventeen SDGs as the framework for our sustainability strategy.
Goal 3:
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Goal 7:
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
Goal 4:
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Goal 11:
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
