Protecting the Environment
How we design, build, manage and maintain our infrastructure assets can have a positive impact on the environment. We report on our key environmental impacts and describe the wide range of initiatives and programmes in place to help move the Group towards operating within environmental limits.
Highlights and Approach
How we measure our environmental
impacts, follow a structured approach for environmental management
and share best practice.
Climate Change
We have a responsibility to reduce our
own carbon emissions and to look for carbon savings in the projects
we design, build and manage for our customers.
Waste
Our operating companies seek to
reduce, reuse and recycle the waste we generate and to use recycled
materials where possible to conserve resources for future
generations.
Water
Our focus has been to reduce our use
of water and provide new buildings with water saving technologies.
Materials
We continue to increase our
procurement of sustainably sourced timber and seek opportunities to
select materials with lower environmental impacts.
Ecology
Our operating companies actively
manage ecological issues on their projects and seek to positively
enhance habitats and species diversity.
Incidents and Enforcement
Our goal is to avoid environmental
harm and encourage our operating companies to record, investigate
and learn from environmental incidents.
Awards and Benchmarking
Recognition and awards success
received in 2008.
30%
reduction in CO2 emissions per £m sales for UK operating companies since 2004
