ESG Report 202223 - Flipbook - Page 18
Environmental
performance
Environmental safeguarding and our
responsibility for future generations
From the UK’s busiest cities, railway lines, airports and highways to the most
remote rural areas, our people are working hard to deliver essential infrastructure
services sustainably in every environment.
As a Group, we understand our legal and ethical obligations to minimise the environmental impact
of our works. Promoting good environmental practice across our operations, we continually
seek opportunities to develop and introduce sustainable processes and behaviours across each
operating business, while recognising the complex and inter-dependent nature of their supply
chains.
Each of our operating businesses is now independently ISO:14001:2015 certified, with a bespoke
Environmental Management System governing their processes and driving continual improvements
in environmental performance.
This means all projects, regardless of their size, are carefully planned to ensure we have minimal
impact on the environment and communities in which we work. Specific instructions can be
recorded in the form of Environmental Management Plans, considering environmental risk factors
that are local to each area of operation. Complex or sensitive projects and frameworks receive their
own Environmental Handbook, which sets out our expectations for the way in which environmental
safeguarding will be undertaken. Many of our contracts make use of Site Ecologists and,
where appropriate, Archaeological Consultants, who work with environmental
and local agencies or authorities, community groups and landowners to
ensure our works maintain their environmental focus while respecting
the ancient and irreplaceable nature of our heritage and ecology.
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