Sustainability
To ensure that our key performance indicators are the most relevant to our businesses, we have agreed, as one of more than 20 national companies, to participate in a pilot scheme that will measure the impact that business has on society in five important areas: our workforce, the marketplace, the environment, the community and human rights.
Managed by Business in the Community over the next two years, this project will be particularly helpful in assisting us to benchmark our performance, in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Environment
2000 saw the proportion of business turnover certified to ISO 14001 increase to 75%. We were placed in the top quintile of companies in the Business in the Environment West Midlands Index of Corporate Environmental Engagement, and came top in the construction sector assessment.
At Group level, we have negotiated a new agreement to purchase energy from a hydroelectric source. At Head Office, 100% of electricity is from renewable energy and 60 other office locations have the same objective for 2001. We are developing an innovative whole-life costing tool that can be used at the initial design stage of projects to deliver energy efficient buildings with both environmental and financial benefits.
'They won the contract because they talked about relationships with the local community and leaving the environment in as good a condition as when they started. They thought this was important - no-one else mentioned it.'
Professor Charles Stirton, Director, National Botanic Garden of Wales
We have supported 5% of entitled employees to opt out of the company car scheme, and added LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) cars to the Carillion Fleet. Our fleet reduced its emissions of CO2 to 9,900 tonnes in 2000 compared with 11,027 tonnes in 1999. 70% of the fleet is petrol engined compared with 75% in 1999, whilst most of the remaining 30% are diesel engined.
Community
Carillion employs over 12,000 people and indirectly influences the employment of many more. Aware of the scarcity of skilled construction craft trades-people, we are working to redress this gap by training young people and New Deal clients. In addition, last year 2,500 apprentices and adult trainees passed through our Craft Training Centres. We have been working with the Employment Service to reduce social exclusion through the direct provision of Job Centres on construction sites, as well as via Sir Neville Simms' Chairmanship of, and a further secondment to, the New Deal Construction Task Force.
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Carillion gave its backing to the Annual Repton Challenge held at Repton School in Derbyshire. Professor Quentin Leiper, Carillion's Director for Engineering and the Environment set the teams the task of building a bridge from balsa wood - points were awarded for design and strength. Birchfield School from Wolverhampton won the Carillion prize. |
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