Quality Policy
We care deeply about our work and seek to produce better outcomes for our clients, the public and our planet. Through our collaborative spirit, independent thinking, and holistic approach we produce work of quality that improves the built environment and sets new expectations for our industry.
Aims:
- Provide advice and design solutions that are efficient, effective, and innovative; that generate outcomes that exceed expectations, improve society, and support sustainable development.
- Provide a high level of service to our clients; one that they will want to repeat.
- Create elegant, coordinated, robust and accurate deliverables; containing the right information that is readily accessible.
We will:
- Recruit talented people from diverse backgrounds who share our aims; and provide the right conditions and opportunities for them to flourish.
- Give our people the freedom to be creative and to learn.
- Build long-term trusted, empathetic relationships with our clients and collaborators.
- Pursue a culture of enquiry, strengthen internal collaboration and share our knowledge.
- Invest in advancing our design, digital and professional skills; and our strategic thinking.
- Seek to work with clients, partners, agents, advisors and suppliers whose commitments and values are consistent with our own.
- Continually improve quality through our management system certificated to ISO 9001.
Governance
This policy is set by the Group Board and implemented across all Arup operations through rules, procedures and guidance.
It is reviewed and approved annually, or more frequently if appropriate. The Quality Director acts for Arup in ensuring that plans are developed and implemented to enable us to reach the aims set out in this policy while fulfilling applicable legal, regulatory and other requirements.
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How we're governed
We recognise the value of transparency around organisational governance, how businesses are led and managed, and how stakeholder considerations are reflected in decision making, and our governance reflects that.