To continue to grow the business, increase diversity, improve efficiency and to be a responsible employer, creating a business culture that reflects our Core Values.

To inspire us all, building a strong, vibrant, and resilient practice where all five offices function efficiently, sharing resources, skills and capability across teams and sectors and collaborating as a single entity in delivering our Mission.

SGP is proud to be a supporting practice of the Architects’ Mental Wellbeing Forum (AMWF) and we are now in our fourth year of celebrating Mental Health week, providing various activities to raise awareness of these issues to all staff. We have had guest speakers talking about their experiences along with other seminars on mindfulness, meditation and relaxation. In addition to this we have mental health first aiders across all our offices who are ready to help should the need arise. To assist in the cost of living challenges, the practice provides a Smart Spending app which provides discounts in many shops and entertainment locations.

We are keen that all our colleagues can map out their goals and we aim to always create an environment where employees can flourish. Our performance review system enables regular, open, conversations about individuals’ aspirations, both short and long term. So, whether it is a personal/project challenge, upskilling via mentoring or coaching or longer term goals, we want to find out about your objectives. Between the Performance Review sessions you’ll have regular 1:1s with your line manager to discuss any issues or clarify any objectives you are aiming for.

We are very strong believers of our responsibility to our communities and the environment. We are members of the Planet Mark and are actively working to reduce our carbon emissions by 50% across all our activity by 2030. We are award winners in the educational work we carry out with school children, introducing them to sustainability and the construction industry and options they have for a career in the sector. We also support a number of charities through a series of activities every year. Above and beyond all of this we are continually striving to improve the sustainability of our offer as architects as outlined in our Practice’s Sustainability Strategy.

We need to be constantly aware of changes, both short and long term, in our industry and digital / technological innovations in the world. To do this we have set up a futures group whose remit it is to report back on the latest developments and how our practice could adopt them or learn how they will affect our work.

We are incredibly proud to be a holder of the ISO19650 standard which recognises the standard we work to in our digital environments. We offer a diversity of levels of delivery of information, ranging from 2D to BIM Level 2 modelling.