Our goal is to simplify and eliminate unnecessary complexity helping to create business efficiency and drive value. Customer service excellence forms the basis of our service, reflective in the high levels of repeat business we experience and the long-standing client relationships we enjoy. We promote and encourage collaborative working with input from our clients, end-users, designers, supply chain and consultants. Early involvement is essential to not only cement open and positive working relations, but to collectively develop designs, methodologies and to essentially understand what our client and end-user requirements are.
DES’ core philosophy is in the building of strong relationships with our clients. We achieve this by upholding the highest standards of professional conduct including openness, honesty, and integrity.
With a combination of expertise, ingenuity, and variety we have been able to evolve – and underpin our success as a self-sufficient and high-growth business.
Our journey is one of continual development, reinforced by diversity and technological advancement.
2021
Announced strategic partnership with BOSCH
2020
Won WDC sustainability award
2019
Completed Kingston University Town House
2017
Introduced BIM technology and design capability
2015
Won SME of the Year award
2015
Identified by Goldman Sachs as one of the fastest growing companies in the UK
2014
Developed our renewable energy division
2013
Helped construct the World Wildlife Headquarters
2012
Assisted in the design and build of the Olympic Infrastructure
2005
First pioneers of modular build and standardised design within the leisure sector
2000
Company Inception
Quality
We strongly value high quality standards and believe this has been integral to the success of our company.
We have earned a reputation for quality and reliability backed up by long-term relationships with many clients and consultants. It is the clearly stated policy of DES that it is dedicated to quality in everything it does. The Senior Management Team of DES has developed a Quality Policy which governs the day-to-day operations to ensure quality. This Quality Policy and Statement is communicated and implemented throughout the Company.
Health and Safety
DES is a professional and safety conscious organisation.
We believe that people are our most valuable resource. Accordingly, we will give the health and safety of our employees, client, and our supply chain the highest of priorities. With extensive accreditation of our services and practices (Builders Profile, Constructionline, SSIP) we know that our employees are fit to operate in a safe and well managed environment.
Values
Our company values are at the heart of everything we do.
They define who we are, how we work, what we believe in and what we stand for. Within the construction industry TRUST is a key factor to which DES have adopted this to being part of our ethos. They are fundamental to DES’ long-term success and represent the set of standards under which all of us at DES will work, and against which the performance of every employee will be assessed and rewarded.
DES Energy
It is widely accepted that the planet Earth is facing a climate emergency and that to mitigate the impact of this, we need major transformations in the ways our global society functions. DES Energy in one of the UK’s leading energy solution providers. By using the latest technology DES Energy protect organisations against soaring energy costs, saving money and CO2.
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DES are a customer focused business who pro-actively engage with us at all levels from bidding through to after-care. From a slow, cautious start our trading relationship has grown to them being a valued Supply Chain Member who has recently been awarded ‘Preferred’ status on our Supply Chain. DES encapsulate the spirit of an SME and operate in a manner which is conducive with Kiers core values (Forward Thinking, Collaborative & Enthusiastic).
John O’Callaghan - Managing Director, Kier Construction
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We have worked with DES for many years and we do this because they are quite simply better than your average contractor.
They do what they say they are going to do, and do it very well.
We would therefore recommend them to anyone except our closest rivals (why would we want them to benefit from such a good contractor).
Our relationship with DES is a partnership, we work together to challenge what we do, how we do it and ensure that we are doing it better than anyone else in the industry.Darren Border - Director, Willmott Dixon Construction
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I’ve been really impressed, I have to say the best M&E sub-contractors I’ve worked with to date, very thorough and great communication.
Mike Terry RIBA - ECE Architecture
