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OUR PEOPLE
Proactively Promoting a Diverse & Inclusive Workplace.
Ardmac continues to create and promote an increasingly diverse and inclusive workplace in an industry where Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) have faced their fair share of challenges. We recognise that we are not where we would like to be just yet, but we are proud to be a leader in advancing inclusivity in our sector. We know that it is essential to match our ambitions with actions and have now adopted a formal approach to ensuring an inclusive and diverse workplace culture can thrive. To ensure our policies and procedures, the backbone of our organisational structure, authentically reflect our commitment to DEI, we have partnered with the Irish Centre for Diversity (ICD). Our efforts to enhance these were recognised through achieving Bronze accreditation from the ICD, a significant achievement for our business. In 2023, we built on this recognition and were honoured to achieve Silver accreditation—a milestone that underscores our dedication to embedding diversity into the core of our business. For us, this accreditation is more than a badge; it’s a symbol of our efforts to put our aspirations into practice, and it sends a strong message that DEI is essential to our people, and therefore, essential to our business.
Enhancing our Efforts As we continue to grow, Ardmac is acutely aware of the need to grow our DEI efforts at pace. To do this, we are prioritising our data collection and processing to gain deeper insights that will allow us to target even more impactful initiatives. We are now tracking the 28 nationalities that make up our diverse team and reporting our monthly gender balance ratio, which currently stands at 78% male to 22% female. Although this ratio isn’t yet where we want it to be, we are proud of the fact that it is ahead of the industry norm and we’re actively working to improve it through implementing more inclusive recruitment practices. Ardmac also believes in using our voice as a leader in the sector to proactively influence others. We do this through targeted DEI-focused initiatives including sponsorship of industry events like the Construction Industry Federation’s (CIF) International Women’s Day conference. We take great pride in supporting our people to flourish in an inclusive and respectful workplace. Ardmac’s ambition is to encourage others to join us in creating a more diverse and inclusive industry where all talent is actively sought out and celebrated.
78% 22% “We are proud of the fact that it is ahead of the industry norm and we’re
actively working to improve it through implementing more inclusive recruitment practices.”
28 Nationalities
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