At RLB, we take immense pride in delivering landmark projects and driving meaningful outcomes for our customers, colleagues, and communities worldwide. Over the past 12 months, we have achieved significant milestones across our regions, demonstrating our commitment to empowering people, fostering sustainability, and strengthening communities. Together, these achievements highlight the values that unite our global practice.
In Europe, RLB maintained its long-standing Top Employer status, expanded its service reach with new offices, achieved environmental recognition through EcoVadis, and supported reforestation and charitable causes. The Middle East demonstrated sustainability leadership by achieving carbon neutrality, diversifying service offerings, and promoting workplace diversity.
Across North America, leadership expansion, strategic partnerships, and local community involvement highlighted RLB’s growth and corporate responsibility efforts. Finally, in Oceania, carbon-neutral achievements, industry awards, and recognition of First Nations cultures underscored RLB’s dedication to sustainability, innovation, and cultural inclusivity.
Through these regional accomplishments, RLB reaffirms its commitment to building a better, sustainable, and inclusive future worldwide.
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Empowering our People
Our people remain at the heart of everything we do. Across the globe, RLB has nurtured talent, created leadership opportunities, and celebrated excellence in our industry.
Investing in Leadership and Development:
Investing in Leadership and Development: In North America, 12 colleagues were promoted to senior leadership roles, from Associate to Vice President, providing greater shareholding opportunities in line with our ethos as an employee-owned company. Similarly, in Africa, three colleagues were promoted to Partner, underscoring our commitment to developing talent from within.
Recognising Industry Excellence: Our Hong Kong team’s outstanding professionalism earned them the Quantity Surveying Team of the Year Award at the RICS Hong Kong Awards for the third consecutive year. Meanwhile, RLB UK was celebrated as a Top Employer for the 18th year running and maintained its Investors in People Gold standard.
Building a Global Experience: We expanded the Global Experience Exchange Programme to include non-technical roles, ensuring that every member of our practice has the opportunity to grow and contribute.
Promoting Diversity and Inclusion: The Middle East team reflects our commitment to inclusion, representing 16 nationalities with a 1:3 female-to-male ratio, far surpassing industry standards. In Africa, initiatives like the Employment Equity Committee promote fairness and equality, and bursaries have been provided to disadvantaged female students pursuing careers in quantity surveying.
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Advancing Sustainability
Sustainability remains central to RLB’s strategy as we continue to reduce carbon footprints, drive innovation, and align with global environmental standards.
Achieving Carbon Neutrality: In the Middle East, our UAE and Qatar offices achieved carbon neutral status, while Oceania achieved carbon neutral accreditation in Australia and net zero certification in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Promoting Environmental Standards: RLB Hong Kong was awarded the Carbon Reduction Certificate from the Hong Kong Green Organisation Certification, and Singapore attained Eco Certification from the Singapore Environment Council. In Europe, we maintained EcoVadis silver status for the third year in a row, placing us among the top 14% of companies assessed globally.
Enhancing Digital Innovation: RLB Africa developed in-house digital solutions to streamline workflows and improve efficiency, while our Singapore team led initiatives in collaborative contracting, pioneering innovative industry practices.
Sustaining Natural Ecosystems: Europe’s RLB Forest initiative has grown to 2,725 trees, steadily progressing toward our goal of planting 10,000 trees by 2030.
