Sustainability @ Helbling

The Helbling Group defines sustainable innovation as the interaction of four criteria: desirability (addresses customer needs), feasibility (technically realizable), viability (returns a profit) and sustainability (good for the environment, business and society in the long term).

From optimization to disruptive change, our contributions in this respect can promote greater sustainability.

Sustainable innovation is specifically promoted and developed in the Helbling Group through the measures below:

• Sustainability considerations are included in the assessment and processing of all projects, unless otherwise agreed with the customer.
• When it comes to service development, the Helbling Group focuses on services that address the sustainability challenges of our customers.
• Technical and methodological expertise for the provision of innovative sustainability services are developed further and the infrastructure required for these. 
• The acquisition of specific expertise in the areas of technology and standards for the realization of sustainable innovation projects is promoted in a targeted manner.

As an engineering and consulting company, our projects for customers offer us the greatest leverage to ensure ecological sustainability in the future.

Relevant approaches range from the development of sustainable strategies and business processes to the development of eco- and socio-intelligent products and systems to sustainably designed infrastructures and plants as well as energy-optimized buildings and factories.

One area of particular focus in projects is on the systemic examination of the entire product life cycle – from fair procurement and manufacturing that conserves resources to long-term optimized usage of energy and resources and through to the reuse of components and materials or their recycling.

Our employees are the most important resource in our service business. Accordingly, a significant value is attached to sustainable relations with each other in practically all aspects.

With our progressive corporate culture, our federalist organization, our various projects and the diversity and equal opportunities that we live and breathe, we offer our employees a motivational environment.

Within the framework of the projects we offer meaningful work in a stable environment, which allows to make a significant contribution to a world worth living.

We want to both enthuse and retain our employees in the long term. We place enormous importance on their long-term health and performance in this respect, along with maintaining their employability through internal support and further training, education and development.

We continually expand the varied training and education program of the Helbling Group and ensure it reflects contemporary needs, particularly in the area of sustainability.

We are convinced that the sustainable development of the environment, society and the economy can only be achieved successfully on an internal and external level through consistent networking and a readiness to collaborate. The Helbling Group considers itself to be part of a sustainability ecosystem. For this reason, we collaborate with other organizations and stakeholders with which we share a development community.

We are convinced that sustainability can display its strength and effectiveness if it is firmly anchored at the heart of our corporate identity and, consequently, in our daily activities. Accordingly, sustainability is a core value in our mission statement. It is the compass guiding the development of our company, our business and our employees.

The development of the Helbling Group is a long-term consideration for us. We develop our services so that this consideration is anchored firmly and permanently in their substance.

We attach great importance to long-term, well-functioning cooperation when developing our business with our partners and stakeholders, and we exercise great care in this respect.

We promote and organize informal exchanges, employee events and collective leisure activities, including for the optimum integration of new colleagues and to strengthen a feeling of togetherness.

We provide our services in a manner that conserves resources to the greatest degree and is as environmentally compatible as possible.

Company divisions and their business centers define binding sustainability goals and initiatives annually in the context of the strategic planning and budgeting process and implement these during the course of the year.  These goals encompass the six sustainability building blocks. 

The sustainability focus of the individual areas should be where the greatest contribution can be made in the nature of the respective business activity and the situation in the company division/business center.