We find the right way is the better way, so we engage and respect our staff, recognise sustainable operating principles, and deploy good governance.
The world’s landscapes and skylines would be very different if private and public sector organisations alike did not adopt and apply key corporate and social responsibilities to employees, partners, clients, good governance and the environment.
McBains has built its professional property and construction consultancy on foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility. While we believe business should be fun – tough that it can be – and we encourage a healthy and realistic work-life balance amongst our team and our partners, we recognise the importance of accountability. We are ISO 9001 and 14001 certified and have a stringent set of sustainable operating principles on which we are externally audited.
ISO9001
We are ISO 9001 certified and have a stringent set of sustainable operating principles on which we are externally audited.

ISO14001
We are 14001 certified and have a stringent set of sustainable operating principles on which we are externally audited.

Cyber Essentials Plus
We design highly-visible secure buildings around the world. Our cyber security may be invisible, but it's proven effective.
McBains has been awarded Cyber Essentials Plus certification, covering all company servers, PCs, laptops and company mobile devices.
Cyber Essentials helps prevent the vast majority of cyber attacks. The increasing frequency of cyber security breaches demonstrates the importance of protecting an organisation against cyber threats. Even a simple virus or piece of malware could result in loss of company and client data, disrupt cashflow and take up staff time.
We achieved accreditation in under a week, with the GAP analysis showing no shortcomings, proving that our systems and processes were already very secure - a confirmation of our established approach.
Cyber Essentials is a government-endorsed standard and although it is a mandatory requirement for suppliers of Government contracts, including CCS, it also provides reassurance to private sector clients too.
Cyber Essentials Plus certification requires an organisation to complete a self-assessment questionnaire, with responses independently reviewed by an external certifying body, together with tests of the systems carried out by an external certifying body, using a range of tools and techniques including a penetration test from both outside and inside the firm’s firewall.
You can't see all the things we do to operate in the better way.

ISO 19650
McBains has successfully achieved ISO 19650 certification, which recognises the high standards of organisation and digitisation that we operate in relation to our BIM processes, and has successfully passed both Stages 1 and 2 of the ISO 19650 audit.
ISO 19650 is the internationally-recognised standard for managing information over the whole life-cycle of a built asset using BIM, and supersedes the BS 1192 and PAS 1192 standards.
As an early adopter of BIM, McBains has been aligning to PAS 1192 standards for many years; achieving BIM Level 2 certification back in 2016.

SafeContractor
McBains has been awarded accreditation from Alcumus SafeContractor for achieving excellence in health and safety in the workplace.
Alcumus SafeContractor is a leading third party accreditation scheme which recognises extremely rigorous standards in health and safety management amongst contractors. It is used by thousands of organisations in the UK including SMEs and FTSE 100 companies.
We are also sustainability verified. Sustainability verification is an extension of the SafeContractor health and safety audit that demonstrates our commitment to best practice and has been built to include the common question sets within PAS91.
For further information, please visit http://www.safecontractor.com/

Constructionline Gold Member
Constructionline is the UK’s most connected and progressive provider of procurement and supply chain management services, it enables all parties in the supply chain to optimise performance, minimise risk and realise opportunities.
The Gold membership communicates to prospective and current clients our ability to meet pre-qualification requirements and demonstrates that McBains has passed the increased scrutiny placed on it by Constructionline around governance and risk management.

Disability Confident Committed
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
- ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
- communicating and promoting vacancies
- offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria
- for the job
- anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
- supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term
- health condition, enabling them to stay in work
- at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
Find out more about Disability Confident at: www.gov.uk/disability-confident

Memberships and Associations
- Association of Consultancy Engineering (ACE) 00055854
- Association for Project Safety (APS) M0000816
- BREEAM MCC-JC17
- British Safety Council 138257
- Building Services & Research Information Association (BSRIA) CE1250
- Constructionline 9761
- Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 490335
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents M41201030
- SafeContractor WY9068
- UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) 16265