Our Mission and Goal

Building Responsibly seeks to leverage its principles, tools, and relationships to set the recognized standard for workers’ welfare in the value chain of the built environment and energy sector.​

Our mission is to protect and enhance worker welfare, dignity and respect in the built environment and energy sector through collective business action.

We believe in common principles designed by the industry for the industry. We advance our programs by:

  • Creating and adopting common principles and practices

  • Developing tools

  • Engaging workers, clients, governments, civil society, and international organizations

  • Driving innovation and continuous improvement

Our History

Launched in February 2017 by six industry-leading engineering and construction companies, Building Responsibly is a global, business-led coalition committed to promoting the rights and welfare of workers. The initiative hinges on the belief that pre-competitive collaboration is essential for companies to improve standards, policies, and practices to accelerate impact across the industry.

The founding members were: Bechtel, Fluor, Jacobs (formerly CH2M), Multiplex, Vinci, and Wood (formerly Amec Foster Wheeler).

Our Focus

In June 2018, Building Responsibly launched the Building Responsibly Principles for members to adopt and promote across the engineering and construction industry. These Principles provide a framework for the group’s ongoing development of good practice notes, implementation guides, and tools. They will also set the direction for engaging with clients, subcontractors, recruitment agents, governments, and other key stakeholders in the engineering and construction value chain.

 

Our 2024-2025 Priorities

  • Promoting Principles and Guidance Notes: make Building Responsibly Principles and Guidance Notes the sector’s reference framework in terms of worker welfare

  • Build Capacity and Accountability: develop member capacity to implement the Building Responsibly Principles into member organizations and beyond, and track collective progress

  • Increasing visibility: improve the collaboration’s visibility and showcase members’ efforts on worker welfare issues

  • Strengthening the membership: increase the collaboration’s global presence and collective leverage by growing its membership base

  • Building strategic partnerships: engage with relevant stakeholders to collectively improve worker welfare around the world