Management Actions and Performance Measurements

Translating our policy into specific actions, we have looked at both management actions and performance measurement.

Management Actions

To assist in bringing sustainable principles into the heart of the business, we have worked with: the Building Research Establishment, originally adopting the Managing Sustainable Companies (MaSC) framework; Carbon Footprint to assist in measuring & reducing our CO2 emissions; Business in the Community to help ongoing implementation and focussing on corporate responsibility.

Performance Measurement

We currently measure our environmental performance in terms of:-

• The number of environmental incidents, and complaints from the public
• Our CO2 emissions, including:
  • the amount of energy we use at our offices and construction sites
  • the number of miles travelled by car on company business
• Our score in the Considerate Constructors Audits
• The amount of waste material we remove from our offices and construction sites
• The amount of waste we divert from landfill and therefore recycle
• The amount of recycled materials we purchase

As members of the UKCG, we have committed to the WRAP goal of 'Halving Waste to Landfill by 2012', and to only purchasing timber from certified legal and sustainable sources. As a 'May Day' company we have also committed to monitor and target to reduce our CO2 emissions.

We have set the following targets for 2010:

	2009 Performance	2010 Targets & Objectives
Incidents	Zero	Zero
Considerate Constructors	Average 32.9 (Min 30)	Average 33 (Min 32)
Waste Produced	75T /£M (2008: 55T /£M)	55T / £M
Waste Diversion from landfill	70% (2008: 50%)	75%
Carbon footprint	1111T (2008: 1266T)	Reduce in absolute terms
Recycled Content		20% by value
Water Use		Monitor