We shape, create and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets.
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive.
Costain cares about our natural and built environment; our relationships with all our stakeholders; and fundamentally, about the future of the UK.
Through our smart contracting and consultancy solutions we help our customers across the UK’s transportation, water, energy and defence sectors to improve their business performance by enabling their infrastructure programmes to be safer, better, greener, faster and more efficient.
We operate through two divisions: natural resources and transportation. Within the natural resources division we serve our water, energy and defence sectors and within the transportation division, we serve the rail, highways and aviation/ borders sectors. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Our strategy is to focus on blue-chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements.
We are committed to operating our business both sustainably and responsibly. We are focused on one simple but powerful message – ‘Costain Cares’. This is not a slogan: it is an attitude of mind.
Future-shaping strategic consultancy - We work with our customers in their business and investment planning to develop new solutions to meet changing needs, leveraging our deep customer insight, practical expertise and broad range of capabilities.
Consultancy and advisory - Our value-adding consultancy and advisory services are rooted in project delivery experience and leverage our broad range of capabilities.
Digital technology solutions - We engineer and integrate digital solutions into our projects to improve the performance of our infrastructure.
Asset Optimisation - We optimise the performance of our customers’ existing infrastructure assets and operational practices by combining our deep customer insight and practical expertise, thereby increasing capacity, improving connectivity, minimising downtime and reducing operating costs.
Complex programme delivery - Our people deliver complex infrastructure projects in a sustainable, efficient and practical way by constantly innovating and working collaboratively.
Our values are what we believe in, what we stand for as an organisation, what we hold true. They are a guide to our behaviours and the way we work and are a cornerstone of the culture in Costain. The 4 values are:
These values are underpinned by our core set of behaviours. Be collaborative is about being connective, being inclusive and teamwork. Be curious is about being innovative, agile and constantly learning. Be caring is being empathetic and considerate in what we do and Be courageous is about being bold and committed to being better.
