Our Strategy and Commitments
A Legacy Built for Tomorrow
Della Torre supports a healthy and more equitable future for our people, our business, and our planet through our Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy.
We continue to take bold actions to protect and actively care for people, purposefully transform the industry, and sustain our planet for future generations.
Our vision is to be the highest-value provider of global construction services and technical expertise while we build a legacy of quality for people, customers, community, and the environment. Being purposeful, measurable and transparent as we implement change today is how we build a legacy for tomorrow.
Our Commitments
We are connecting a range of our existing programmes, broadening our areas of focus, and connecting with each other, our clients, and partners more than ever before. As part of our ESG strategy, we are setting ambitious goals, formalising our commitments, and sharing them publicly to be more accountable and transparent across seven areas of impact.
Sustain Our Planet
Our Projects: Support a Sustainable and Resilient Built Environment
We will work with our business partners and clients to influence decisions about the sourcing, resilience, and sustainability of building materials and systems.
Our Operations: Reduce Our Operational Environmental Footprint
We will protect the environment by reducing energy, water and waste, while committing to mitigating impact on biodiversity and ecosystems.
Protect and Actively Care for People
Our Employees: Develop a Healthy, Thriving, Best-in-Class Workforce
We will support the continuous development of people in a healthy, safe, diverse, and inclusive environment
Our Business Partners: Create a Safe and Healthy Working Environment
We will promote the physical and mental wellbeing of people and build a more sustainable supply chain.
Our Communities: Grow Purposeful Community Impact
We will grow healthy and sustainable community partnerships and strengthen diverse and local businesses.
We are sustaining the right environment where people can be at their best, be authentic, and are treated with respect and dignity. This includes working every day to eliminate hate and bias from our industry.
Purposefully Transform Our Industry
Our World: Drive Sustainable Market Transformation
We will introduce innovative products and services that make us better builders, improve the industry, and positively impact the world.
Our Business: Accountable and Transparent Business Practices
We will uphold the highest standards of business conduct and be transparent and clear with our commitments.
Sustain Our Planet
Our Projects
Support a Sustainable and Resilient Built Environment
Support Deliberate & Sustainable Design
- We will prioritise sustainability in our preconstruction process on all new projects. This includes promoting resilience planning, supporting energy efficient design, avoiding waste, increasing recycling and the use of circular materials, calculating and reducing embodied carbon, and incorporating human rights and health impacts during material evaluations in the design process.
- We will promote the use of existing building energy retrofit as a strategy for decarbonisation.
Develop & Disperse Specialised Expertise
- We will advance professional service offerings with best-in-class sustainability subject matter expertise.
- We will increase overall employee awareness on sustainability topics relating to the building’s design and construction through trainings and resource materials.
Sustain Our Planet
Our Operations
Reduce Our Operational Environmental Footprint
Emission Reduction & Renewable Energy Implementation
- We will achieve Net Zero Emissions across our supply chain (Scopes 1, 2 and 3).
- We will continuously assess our carbon targets to align with limiting temperature rises as set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Waste Avoidance & Diversion
- We will divert 80% of construction and demolition waste.
- We aim to continuously reduce the total waste footprint of our projects through deliberate material selection and construction means and methods.
Water Management & Conservation
- We will decrease our potable water consumption by 10%.
- We will assess water stress conditions in the locations where we build and implement water management plans for all new projects in water stressed areas.
Protect & Restore Biodiversity
- We will study our impact on biodiversity and ecosystems and commit to implement mitigation and restoration efforts.
Protect and Actively Care for People
Our Employees
Develop a Healthy, Thriving, Best-in-Class Workforce
Inclusive Representation
- We will embed inclusive practices in all aspects of employee development and overall company strategy and continue to enhance the employee experience to ensure that everyone feels valued and respected.
- We will grow our team by recruiting top talent from a broad range of backgrounds, with a continued commitment to inclusive outreach and equal opportunity.
- We will grow the construction industry pipeline through multiple engagement events per year with students in every office.
Advanced, Skill-Based Learning
- We will support both salaried and hourly employees’ learning and growth through role-based just-in-time training curricula.
- We will integrate knowledge of a broader sustainability strategy into the next generation of employees, increasing knowledge on topics related to sustainability such as biodiversity, circularity, human rights, etc.
- We will continually evaluate our performance review process to provide an equitable and actionable performance management experience for our employees and support their professional growth.
Create the Right Environment
- We will proactively support employee engagement and inclusion by creating a workplace environment where all people can be at their best, be authentic, and are treated with dignity and respect.
- We will work every day to eliminate hate and bias from our industry.
- We will offer innovative and best-in-class benefit programmes for our employees.
- We will continue to enhance benefits and work experience for Della Torre trade labour.
Protect and Actively Care for People
Our Business Partners
Create a Safe and Healthy Work Environment
Promote Worker Behavioural Health Success
- We strive to create the safest workplace possible to create a culture where our projects experience zero incidents.
- We will support both physical and also mental wellness on all projects through access to health and wellness professionals and proactive wellness programmes.
- We will work every day to eliminate hate and bias from our industry.
- We will incorporate physical protection from severe weather events and other climate impacts into our project planning and risk mitigation processes for projects.
- We will monitor the temperature, air quality, and water quality of business unit and jobsite offices to ensure a healthy work environment.
Build a Sustainable Supply Chain
- We will increase business partner knowledge and awareness of sustainability.
- We will actively engage our teams to take a leadership role in learning and integrating sustainability in supply chain management.
- We will engage with industry organisations that support learning and growth associated with sustainability.
Protect and Actively Care for People
Our Communities
Grow Purposeful Community Impact
Engage Actively in the Communities We Build
- We will increase impact of charitable contributions and volunteer hours annually.
- We will grow consistent impact of identified community needs supported by increased employee participation and volunteer opportunities across all business units.
- When impacted by natural disasters, we will supply resources to provide relief to our communities and maintain an employee and company sponsored relief fund to support our employees.
- We will establish and implement long-term programmes and/or partnerships to proactively preserve ecosystems and increase biodiversity within our communities.
Support Economic Development in the Communities We Build
- We will develop and implement a standard project-specific community engagement process.
- We will increase labour participation rate for local residents to reflect local communities.
- We will increase opportunities for qualified local and small businesses (including those historically underutilised) to achieve a greater percentage of Della Torre’s subcontracted revenue.
Purposefully Transform Our Industry
Our World
Drive Sustainable Market Transformation
Grow Sustainable Business Opportunities
- We will investigate, test, and implement new solutions to make our core business more sustainable.
- We will engage internal and external parties to identify, develop, and implement business opportunities to support future marketplace needs.
Prioritise Business Values
- We will enable employees to make informed decisions by continuing to annually train all employees on ethics and compliance.
- We will increase awareness of Human Rights industry risks by training all employees.
- We will actively engage business partners on the topic of Human Rights, to increase education, awareness, and disclosure.
Purposefully Transform Our Industry
Our Business
Accountable and Transparent Business Practices
Standardised, Secure, and Transparent Processes
- We will support reporting and disclosure requirements of the places in which we and our group companies work.
- We will continuously evaluate and maintain sustainability criteria as key elements of our Enterprise Risk Management process.
- To increase process accountability and standardisation, we will follow ISO 45001 and begin implementation of ISO 14001.
- We will continue our risk assessment for top five risks related to cyber security for Della Torre employees, business partners and clients, and will develop and implement mitigation measures.
Ensure Client Satisfaction
We will actively engage with clients on the topic of sustainability and the support of their goals. We will develop and implement a method for timely measurement and corrective response to client satisfaction.
Executive Commitment & Accountability
We will integrate sustainability targets in executive compensation.