Committed to best practice in lighting design

Sutton Vane Associates’ values include adhering to the Professional Lighting Designers’ Association’s Code of Ethics in addition to all legal standards in our dealings with all stakeholders, together with a commitment to delivering sustainable, cost-effective and creative lighting schemes and impartial advice. We aim continuously to monitor and improve our corporate social responsibility policies; to encourage our partners to strive for matching standards, to act in a socially responsible way and always to be mindful of the effect of our actions on natural resources.

Corporate social responsibility and governance

In outline, Sutton Vane Associate’s CSR policy is to operate in a socially responsible manner and to encourage all our partners to do so, which includes developing sustainable design solutions as well conforming to ethical, professional and legal requirements. We insist that this is followed by all members of our team, as part of good corporate governance, and we encourage feedback from all our stakeholders, including the suppliers who install the equipment we specify for our clients.

Environmental policy and sustainable lighting design

environmental management is an integral and fundamental part of our corporate business strategy. In addition to stipulating internal practices the aim of the policy is to improve the environmental performance of all our designs as far as it is possible to do so within the constraints of resources and our client’s brief by conserving energy, reducing waste, recycling and reusing, and ensuring that products are sourced sustainably and in compliance with EU and international trading rules. We offer advice to our clients in this respect and encourage manufacturers, suppliers and contractors to improve or develop environmentally preferable goods and services at competitive prices.

Quality management

Sutton Vane Associates has a rigorous quality management policy that is applied throughout the lighting design process from the stages before a contract is accepted through to customer liaison after installation. This includes project administration; the presentation and testing of lighting concepts; lighting demonstrations; co-coordinating lighting design with architectural, electrical, structural and mechanical design; specifications, the design of non-standard luminaires, programming lighting controls, and documentation such as risk assessment documents and tenders.  All design work is carried out in line with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994. The consultancy’s quality control policy also covers recruitment and training. All staff are required to receive a minimum of 40 hours’ CPD training annually.