| Stakeholder Groups and their Significance to CDL |
Engagement Platforms |
Issues and Concerns |
Our Employees
The health, safety, welfare and professional development of employees are fundamental to the Group’s performance and key to enhancing our human capital. |
- Regular interaction via town halls, forums and conferences fronted by senior management or subject experts
- CDL 360 – CDL’s staff intranet; CBM staff intranet; Ingird – M&C staff intranet
- Staff Connect – an inter-department committee that organises company-wide activities to foster work-life balance and reinforces team spirit
- Engagement and employee wellness activities
- Educational activities (e.g., workshops and quizzes)
- Regular Gemba Walks led by senior management to improve EHS communication and engagement with employees
- Biennial Employee Engagement Survey
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee grievance handling procedures
- City Sunshine Club, the Company’s volunteering platform
- Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) study
- Internal customer satisfaction survey
- Festive celebrations and engagement activities throughout the year including annual dinner & dance
- Quarterly Enterprise Teambuilding
- Monthly operations meetings at CBM; monthly birthday celebrations and staff parties at M&C
- CBM’s two-day strategic planning retreat
- CBM Employee Appreciation Day
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- Corporate direction and growth plans
- Job security, career development and training opportunities
- Remuneration and benefits
- Climate and sustainability
- Occupational safety, health and well-being
- Labour and human rights
- Work-life balance
- Employee volunteerism
- Workplace environment and conditions
- Diversity, equity and inclusion
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Our Customers
Delivering safe and high-quality products and services to our customers is our raison d’être as customers are key to the generation of financial capital. |
Homebuyers
- 3D showflat virtual tour and online sales presentation
- CityNexus – Home
- Residential services
- Green Living Guides
- Online defects management
- Homebuyer satisfaction surveys
- Handover of strata units – on-site and virtually
- Homebuyer engagement events
Tenants
- CDL Green Lease Partnership Programme and CGTB Programme
- Green fitting-out guidelines
- Recycling programme
- 1°C Up Campaign
- Curated events and activities for C-suites and office community (e.g., Healthy Workplace Ecosystem workouts and workshops, and CityDelights treats giveaways)
- CityNexus – tenant experience app for tenants at the Group’s Singapore-based assets
- Annual tenant satisfaction surveys
- Precinct improvement with Raffles Place Alliance
- CDL CityConnect—Dedicated Facebook page with curated content for CDL tenant community
- Regular retrofitting of CDL’s managed buildings to improve indoor environment
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Homebuyers
- Customer service and experience
- Status of TOP progress and handover appointments
- Ethical marketing practices
- Workmanship and defects rectification
- Design and features
- Common areas and facilities
Tenants
- Green building and office interior certifications
- Green leases
- Workplace safety and health
- Management of facilities
- Customer service and experience
- Resource efficiency
- Environmental management, education and advocacy
- Ethical marketing practices
- Clean and safe workplace environment
CBM Customers
- Customer service and experience
- Workplace safety and health
- Resource efficiency
- Environmental management, education and advocacy
- Ethical marketing practices
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CBM Customers
- Annual Customer Satisfaction Survey
- CBM – Tell Us App: A fault reporting app for public users
- CBM FMS App: A fault reporting app for client representatives
- QR Code Fault Reporting System: An alternative fault-reporting platform
- digiHUB: A smart properties management system that allows property owners to have visibility on the performance of their assets
- My Condo App: An app for condo facilities booking and e-payment
- CBM Home: Facebook & Instagram pages with content on household maintenance and promotions
- Company and subsidiaries’ websites
M&C Customers – Hotel Guests
- Recognition of loyal customers with My Millennium Program
- My Millennium App and Millenniumhotels.com
- Central sales offices and hotel-based sales teams for Group and corporate customers
- Call centres in Canada for global reservations
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Our Builders and Suppliers
We work closely with partners in our value chain to ensure that their operations are carried out in line with CDL’s EHS policies and standards that place environmental performance, worksite safety, and workers’ health and well-being as priorities. |
- Policies on EHS, climate change, green procurement, green buildings, biodiversity, human rights and universal design
- Supplier Code of Conduct
- Green procurement specifications
- CDL 5-Star EHS Assessment
- CDL 5-Star EHS Sports Challenge
- Quarterly seminars and peer sharing
- Regular Gemba Walks led by senior management to improve EHS communication and engagement with workers
- Declaration of EHS commitments through letter and pledge-signing
- EHS risk assessments at concept, design and construction stages
- Construction vision casting
- Annual procurement guideline review
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- Legal compliance
- Quality and design
- Safety of infrastructure and managed facilities
- Productivity
- Innovation
- Workers’ safety, health and well-being
- Labour practices and welfare
- Human rights
- Social inclusion
- Resource and waste management
- Responsible procurement
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Our Investors and Analysts
We strongly emphasise on corporate governance and ESG integration and continue to build investor trust and confidence through open dialogue with shareholders and the investment community.
Our Lenders
We work closely with like-minded lenders by tapping on sustainable financing products to increase our access to capital and lower our overall capital cost in the long run.
The Media
We raise greater awareness of the green agenda and CDL’s sustainable practices by engaging the media regularly through mainstream news and information channels. |
- Annual General Meeting
- Financial results briefing (half-year and full-year) with ‘live’ webcasts and quarterly Operational Updates
- Conferences, panel discussions, investor meetings and site visits
- Media releases and interviews
- Annual reports
- Integrated sustainability reports (annual and quarterly)
- Corporate website and social media platforms
- Sustainability microsite
- Timely response to ESG rating agencies and analysts
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- Corporate governance
- ESG disclosures aligned with leading global standards and frameworks
- Climate change and net zero carbon strategies
- Sustainability performance and tracking, including global sustainability rankings and indices
- Reporting standards
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Government and Regulators
We partner with key government agencies and regulators to elevate industry standards for green buildings, sustainable financing, sustainable practices, and health and safety standards.
Academics and Industry Experts
We work closely with academics and industry experts to explore and testbed new building innovations for a low-carbon future. |
- CDL senior management representation on boards of various industry bodies
- Tri-sector and sustainability-related consultations and dialogues
- Longstanding partnership in various national programmes
- Thought leadership in support of public policies and regulations pertaining to sustainability, green buildings and sustainability reporting
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- Development of green buildings
- Programmes to cultivate responsible workplace practices
- Advocating green consumerism and a green lifestyle
- Sharing of industry best practices
- Regulatory development towards a low-carbon economy
- Promoting sustainability reporting in Singapore
- Advocating ESG integration with financial reporting
- Promoting occupational health and safety
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Our Community
We ensure that our developments do not affect the well-being of surrounding communities. We also invest in community development projects and foster tri-sector collaborations that support the UN SDGs. |
- Public communications plan with residents within a 100-metre radius of our new developments
- Builders’ contact details displayed at construction sites for public feedback
- Sustainability-related conferences/forums
- Consultation and dialogues with academics, NGOs and business associations
- Integrated Sustainability Reports (annual and quarterly)
- Company websites and social media platforms
- Corporate advertisements
- Collaborations with charities and NGOs for community development
- Universal design for homes and offices
- Charitable initiatives/community development projects
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- Proactive communication on CDL’s development plans and construction works
- Promoting environmental awareness and a zero waste mindset
- Advocating best practices in sustainability
- Empowering youths and women as sustainability champions
- Supporting Singapore’s arts scene
- Caring for the less fortunate
- Sustainability and green building thought leadership and advocacy
- Social inclusion
- Ethical marketing practices
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