DL E&C Achieves 'Highest' Grade for 5 Consecutive Years in Win-Win Growth Index Evaluation

DL E&C announced on the 21st that it received the highest grade, "Excellent," for the fifth consecutive year in the "2023 Win-Win Growth Index Evaluation" conducted by the Win-Win Growth Committee.

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The Win-Win Growth Index is an indicator that evaluates fair trade and win-win cooperation activities of large corporations, as well as the perception of partner companies, to promote mutual growth between large and small-to-medium enterprises. In this year's evaluation targeting 224 large and medium-sized enterprises, a total of 44 companies, including DL E&C, were selected for the highest grade.

Considering the construction industry's high dependence on partner companies, DL E&C played the role of a growth facilitator for partner companies that lacked experience and required investment. In particular, it received high evaluations by focusing support on three major areas: technological innovation, workforce development, and safety.

For example, since 2019, DL E&C has been lending 10 machine guidance units to partner companies free of charge. By providing expensive equipment worth tens of millions of won per unit, it helps partner companies innovate technologically and enhance competitiveness. Machine guidance is a technology that measures position and direction through sensors installed on construction equipment and provides construction information based on this data. Excavators equipped with machine guidance have various sensors and a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) that measure the width and depth of excavation work within a 2 cm margin of error and display it on the operator’s monitor. This enables precise work without separate surveying, improving site safety management and increasing work efficiency by more than 25%.

DL E&C has also expanded education and consulting for partner companies in preparation for industrial transformation. In 2022, DL E&C established the "Construction Win-Win Growth Management Course" at Chung-Ang University to support partner company education aligned with rapidly changing industrial environments such as artificial intelligence (AI), building information modeling (BIM), smart construction technologies, and carbon neutrality. This year, new courses related to new businesses such as small modular reactors (SMR) and hydrogen plants were added. Notably, 80% of the entire curriculum consists of job training to provide practical help in improving work capabilities. DL E&C employees with over 20 years of know-how participate as instructors, offering customized management consulting and technical guidance for partner companies’ weak areas.

Since the enforcement of the Serious Accident Punishment Act, DL E&C has been supporting labor costs for partner companies that appoint additional safety managers beyond legal requirements. This budget, independently allocated to ease the management burden of partner companies and create a safe working environment, is separate from the safety management fees paid by the ordering party. Additionally, DL E&C is ensuring partner companies’ safety through smart technologies. So far, it has supported solar-powered mobile rest areas, accident-free bands (smart watches) that check workers’ health status, and LED floodlights, with plans to expand support in the future.

Park Sang-shin, CEO of DL E&C, said, "We will provide practical help to partner companies not only through direct costs but also by supporting education and consulting," adding, "We will strive to create an environment for win-win growth under the belief that 'the growth of partner companies is the growth of DL E&C.'"

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