Sustainability | CIG Fire Protection

Our approach

Four areas. One way of working.

Sustainability at CIG covers four areas: the environment, social value, charity and community, and our people. Each sets out how we work today and what we are working towards.

The commitments below apply across Construction, Interiors and Fire Protection. They are reviewed by the directors, and the figures and policy documents that support them will be published here as they are confirmed.

At a glance

Where we stand.
What we are measuring.

The facts below are drawn from the certificates and company information already on this site. Figures still being confirmed are marked, not estimated.

BristolHead officeWorking across the South West, South Wales and the M4 corridor.

3Specialist divisionsConstruction, Interiors and Fire Protection under one company.

SSIPHealth & safety assessedSafeContractor approved and SMAS Worksafe certified.

GoldConstructionline memberPre-qualified for public and private-sector procurement.

50%Carbon reduction targetAgainst our 2025 baseline of 5,975 kg CO2e, set out in our Carbon Reduction Plan.

89%Supply-chain spend kept in the South West and South WalesShare of 2025 to 2026 spend with located suppliers. Half of it goes to businesses within 30 miles of Iron Acton.

£5,815Raised at the 2026 golf dayDonated in full to the Alfie Nick Foundation. Our golf day runs every year.

11Sports clubs and teams supportedGrassroots cricket, football, futsal and rugby across Bristol and Somerset, with kit, ground advertising and player sponsorships.

97%Site labour living within 30 miles of the projectOperative records for live projects. The rest are specialist trades brought in for specific packages.

01 / Environment

Reducing our environmental impact

Less waste. Lower carbon. Longer-lasting buildings.

Most of our environmental impact sits on site: the materials we install, the waste we remove and the fuel our vehicles and plant use. Our environmental commitments focus on the decisions that reduce that impact without compromising the finished work.

Refurbishment, re-roofing and interior packages also extend the life of existing buildings. Keeping a structure in use is often the lowest-carbon option available to a client, and we plan our work to support that.

Our commitments include

Segregating site waste and working with licensed waste carriers to keep recoverable materials out of landfill
Ordering to measured quantities and phasing deliveries to reduce over-ordering, damage and waste
Specifying products with verified environmental credentials where the specification allows, and suggesting alternatives where it helps
Reducing fuel use through planned deliveries, shared travel to site and the phased replacement of vehicles and plant
Protecting the ground, drainage and neighbouring properties on every site through agreed set-up, dust, noise and spill controls
Supporting clients' own environmental targets with the records they need at handover

Our Carbon Reduction Plan sets a 2025 baseline of 5,975 kg CO2e for the energy and fuel used directly by the business, with a target to halve it in 2026. Monthly fuel, energy and waste figures are now recorded so progress can be reported rather than described.

02 / Social value

Creating value where we work

Local labour. Local supply chain. Good neighbours on site.

CIG works in occupied buildings, live campuses and residential streets. How we behave on site matters to the people around us as much as the finished work.

We are a Bristol business working across the South West and South Wales, and we want each project to leave something behind locally: employment, training and a fairly treated supply chain.

We measure where our money goes. Around 97% of the labour on our sites lives within 30 miles of the project. From January 2025 to September 2026, 89% of our spend with located subcontractors and suppliers stayed in the South West and South Wales, and 51% went to businesses within 30 miles of our Iron Acton office. Those figures exclude national merchants, which we buy from through their Bristol and Bath branches, and the payroll companies that pay our self-employed operatives.

Our commitments include

Employing and training people from the areas we work in, and using local subcontractors and suppliers where the package allows
Offering work experience and site visits with schools and colleges in our regions
Keeping residents, building users and neighbours informed before and during works, with a named contact on every project
Paying our supply chain fairly and on time, with clear scopes and agreed terms
Reporting the social value delivered on public-sector and housing projects in the format the client requires
Measuring what we deliver so that social value can be evidenced in tenders, not just described

Where our supply-chain spend went, 2025 to 2026

Site labour: 97% of operatives live within 30 miles of the project they work on; the remaining 3% are specialist trades brought in for specific packages.
Rest of the South West and South Wales: 38%, mainly Somerset, Devon and the Cardiff and Newport area.
Elsewhere in the UK: 11%, mostly specialist manufacturers and testing houses.
Figures are taken from our accounts, matched to supplier addresses, and are refreshed each year.

Our Social Value Statement sets out these commitments and how they are measured. We publish the figures so that the local labour and spend we quote in tenders can be checked against our records, not estimated.

03 / Charity & community

Giving back, close to home

The Alfie Nick Foundation. Grassroots sport. A golf day every year.

Proud supporters of

Charity and community work at CIG is led by the people in the business, and much of it is personal. We are linked with the Alfie Nick Foundation, a Bristol charity set up in memory of Alfie Nick that supports disadvantaged children across England and Wales, including those who have been in care or live with disability or mental health challenges.

Our annual charity golf day brings clients, suppliers and the team together for the Foundation. The 2026 day at The Kendleshire raised £5,815.33, donated in full, on top of £5,705 given to the Foundation for its launch events. We also gave £4,800 to The Restore Trust, which helps socially excluded people in Bristol into skills and work, through Overbury’s annual Music Night.

Alongside the donations we sponsor grassroots sports clubs, most of them the clubs our own people play for and coach, and we give our trades where they are useful: a gazebo for Wembdon Cricket and Football Club, and the refurbished kitchen at Bishops Hull Primary School decorated free of charge when the school’s budget could not stretch to it.

Our commitments include

Supporting the Alfie Nick Foundation through our golf day, direct donations and practical help
Holding the charity golf day every year and publishing what it raises
Sponsoring grassroots sports clubs across Bristol and Somerset, with kit, advertising boards and player sponsorships on multi-year agreements
Giving colleagues paid time to volunteer for local causes
Donating labour and materials to community projects and schools where we can, from a club gazebo to decorating a school kitchen
Supporting charities that help people in Bristol into skills and employment, including The Restore Trust
Supporting industry charities focused on the mental health and welfare of construction workers

Clubs and teams we support

Bridgwater Cricket Club: three-year ground advertising partnership and annual sponsorship of two players.
Wembdon Cricket and Football Club: three-year advertising partnership, plus a gazebo supplied and fitted by CIG for parents and players.
Shaftesbury Road Cricket Club: ground advertising.
Red Falcons JFC under-11s: kit sponsor. HML Spring Cup winners 2026.
Kettering FC under-16 Reds: kit sponsor, two tournament wins in 2026.
Emersons Green under-12s: team sponsorship.
Ashton Girls under-11 Pumas: kit sponsor.
Mangotsfield under-12s football teams: kit sponsor.
Red Falcons senior women’s team: kit sponsor.
Bristol Futsal: team sponsorship.
Imperial RFC, Bristol: player sponsorship each season.

Total raised, teams sponsored and volunteering hours are updated here each year. Figures on this page are taken from our accounts, not estimated.

04 / Our people

Skilled, safe and supported

The detail depends on the people who deliver it.

Our work depends on skilled trades and site managers who understand the detail. Keeping them safe, trained and supported is the foundation of everything else on this page.

Health and safety performance is assessed externally through SSIP schemes, and our BM TRADA Q-Mark schemes require ongoing competence and audit for the teams carrying out fire-door and fire-stopping work.

Our commitments include

Maintaining externally assessed health and safety management, and investigating and learning from every incident and near miss
Funding trade qualifications, CSCS cards and specialist training such as fire-door and fire-stopping competence
Supporting mental health and wellbeing, including trained mental health first aiders in the team
Recruiting and promoting on ability, and making sure everyone on site and in the office is treated with respect
Reviewing our pay against the Real Living Wage

Training hours and qualifications gained across the team will be published here as they are confirmed.

Our approach

How we hold ourselves to it.

Each area has a director responsible for it. Progress is reviewed alongside project performance, and the commitments on this page are updated when the business changes rather than left as statements.

Governance runs from the decision to tender, through the way work is planned and recorded on site, to handover and review. Responsibilities for quality, health and safety, environmental performance and compliance are defined and reviewed, not left to individual sites.

Where a figure is not yet confirmed we say so. Nothing on this page is estimated to fill a gap.

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