Sustainability

Protecting the environment from the effects of our daily activities is at the very heart of what we do.

As an organisation we feel passionate about making sure our activities go as far as possible to protect the public, and beyond that enhance the environment and encourage biodiversity.

Our Sustainability Plan sets out how we are going to achieve this and also explains how we plan to help deliver key government initiatives, A Green Future: 25-Year Plan and Construction 2025. While sustaining a clean growth strategy and supporting our customers green ambitions.

This plan underpins the short-term Flannery strategy and our 2025 vision for a sustainable future. It sits alongside our recently launched People Plan to demonstrate how we deliver it.

Our sustainability goals drive innovative practises / ways of working and investment decisions. They provide the framework for us to deliver social and environmental benefits.

Examples include:

• Protecting water course from spillages by utilising our huge fleet of machines using biodegradable oils.
• Challenging ourselves to undertake our work as sustainably by training our operators to use their machines more efficiently and by driving the adoption of machine control in support of the ‘site of the future’ and so reducing the overall amount of re-work that impacts our construction projects today.
• Actively seek (and invest in) low carbon opportunities such as electric and hybrid vehicles.

As part of this challenge we are setting ourselves ambitious targets to play our part in tackling global sustainability issues. These include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, adapting to climate change, minimising waste and enhancing biodiversity on our sites.

It is vitally important that in line with this we continue to develop and implement the technology to report on our performance. Enabling us to clearly define our targets and onward journey. We also remain committed to working with and enhancing the local communities and businesses where we operate and contribute to a better quality of life for future generations.

Why?

Environmental, economic and social sustainability is a fundamental part of our businesses focus on people. Our commitment is to reduce the impacts of the plant and equipment we supply, with a particular focus on water pollution, CO2 and NOX.

To us, operating sustainably means that we strive to resolve the impacts of machinery, not only to safeguard the public and provide peace of mind, but to also protect and restore the environment and stimulate economic growth in the areas to which we operate, leaving the local environment in a better condition than we found it.

Our goals sit within a wider national and global context. We want to play our part in tackling climate change and supporting the UK as a key signatory to the International Paris Agreement, which is why our sustainability plan includes ambitions goals and targets on limiting our Greenhouse Gas emissions.