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Notes to Editors/Company Overview Statement

Client: Natta Building Co Limited, Rose Court, Rye Common Lane, Crondall, Farnham GU10 5DD

Date: 13/07/2023

Overview

Natta Building Company Limited is a privately owned company established in 1972. With over 50 years of trading, the company has grown to become one of the industry’s most respected organisations in its class. With an ambitious growth plan, the now Natta Group of companies’ current turnover is £75 million and is targeted to increase to circa £100+ million. The Group’s strategic plans are reviewed every 3 years. A progressive organisation, the Natta Group consists of 7 associated businesses: Natta Building Company, Natta PlantNatta Homes, Natta Utilities, Natta Steel, CISTC and the Surrey Training Group.

Natta Building are experts in infrastructure, roads, sewers, earthworks, groundworks for modular and traditional housing as well as data centres, battery storage centres, schools, garden centres and care homes. With this, the company has a vast portfolio of full design and build projects including care homes, houses and assisted living units.

Our clients currently include Barratt London, Birchgrove, BoKlok UK, Care UK, Crest Nicholson, Dunsfold Airport Limited, JCA, Jones Homes, Legal & General Strategic Land, Life Build Construction, London Square, Merlin Entertainments, Redrow Homes, RW Armstrong, Skanska, Statera Energy, St Modwen Homes, Graham Land & Developments, Vinci Construction, Vivid Homes and Wates Group.

Natta Plant

Natta Plant Limited emerged in 1988. With a state-of-the-art plant portfolio, it is also the construction industry’s largest user of Trimble Technology in the UK. As an independent limited company, Natta Plant contracts both internally and externally and has seen a 300% growth since 2016. It has achieved FORS Silver accreditation demonstrating its commitment to road safety and the reduction of pollution on UK roads. It aims to achieve Gold status by 2023.

Safety

Natta has a first-class safety record; up until June 2023, Natta had worked over 6,200,000 man-hours RIDDOR accident-free. The organisation prides itself on People First, is a member of RoSPA and the staff team, from the top down, works to ensure everyone goes home safe, every day. This maxim applies to both physical safety and personal well-being.

In 2004 Natta constructed a purpose-built training centre and created the Construction Industry Safety Training Centre (CISTC). The centre facilitates the training and upskilling of the construction industry’s workforce and has set an industry-standard framework for safety which has set a benchmark for best practice.

Surrey Training Centre

The Surrey Training Group is supported by the CITB and delivers construction training to companies across the county. Operating out of Natta’s CISTC facility, STG supports organisations in gaining access to grants, training, development and business growth.

Culture, training and development

Natta evidences a culture that is open, collaborative and inclusive and every individual is valued and supported to be the best that they can be. It is proud to have created an environment that promotes success and its training and personal development programme provides opportunities for all to learn. Its staff teams are supported to excel in their roles across the businesses.

It also provides a specialist field career pathway that sponsors the company’s engineers and quantity surveyors to achieve an accredited professional qualification with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Natta’s Graduate Training Scheme has led the company to achieve Approved Employer status with both RICS and ICE.

Natta promotes developing home grown talent. Its Master Groundworker Traineeship programme was launched in 2017 in partnership with Guildford Technology College working to NVQ Level 2 and 3. The Entry Level scheme underpins Natta’s commitment to providing opportunities for everyone and yet, provides a career pathway that supports personal development and career progression within the organisation.

‘Living our Values Everyday Awards’ (LOVE Awards) is the organisation’s unique peer to peer initiative and sees Natta recognise the individual contributions employees make to the company.

Awards

A progressive and innovative company Natta Building has been recognised for its industry leading work, winning several coveted awards in recent years. In March 2019, the company won ‘Best Independent Living Scheme’ at the prestigious Pinders Design Awards with leading care provider Avery Healthcare for The Hawthorns retirement development in Northampton. Most notably recently, Natta Building was awarded Gold in the internationally-renowned, RoSPA (The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) Health and Safety Awards 2020 and 2023. It was also a finalist in the CN Awards for Training Excellence, Community Engagement and Health, Safety & Wellbeing Excellence as well as being awarded Supply Chain Partner of the Year by Wates Group in 2021.

For more information on Natta and its associated businesses please contact Jo Whelan, Communications Director on jkwhelan@natta.co.uk Telephone: 01252 851155

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