Sustainability

Balfour Beatty will deliver, manage and own sustainable infrastructure that helps communities and individuals live within environmental limits. We will build on our heritage to lead the sector in providing our customers with a combination of innovative solutions and engineering excellence that lasts, all in accordance with our ethical framework.

We are committed to responding to the sustainability challenge. By developing and implementing a sustainability strategy covering our global operations until 2020, we are making sustainability a collective responsibility.

We believe that profitable markets, healthy communities and environmental limits are not competing interests; they are shared outcomes that closely align with one another.

We will add value for our stakeholders by:

• Helping our customers reach their own sustainability goals
• Increasing returns for our shareholders
• Creating a better place for our employees to develop and prosper
• Providing infrastructure which benefits the wider community and the environment

We will achieve this vision by consistently applying four key qualities to our work and decisions:

• Commitment through collective responsibility to the delivery of enduring infrastructure
• Innovation in the design, construction and management of assets. We will strive to go beyond customer expectations to help them exceed their goals
• Integrity in how we work. We will embed sustainability across the whole Group as part of what we do. We will apply and build on our core values to ensure all our decisions, practices and behaviours demonstrate integrity and follow our ethical framework
• Durability of both our engineering solutions and business decisions. We will take a long-term perspective across our business operations and the assets we provide, own and manage, including the challenge of adapting to climate change

Working together with our customers, investors and non-government organisations, we have developed a detailed roadmap which sets out how we will help to turn our 2020 vision into reality. The roadmap addresses 31 key issues in 10 focus areas, setting 3 critical milestones for each:

•  Minimum expectations by 2012 - mandatory first steps for all our businesses
• Excellence for 2012 - the goal for those pursing best-practice standards
• The aspirational goal for 2020 - providing clear direction for business thinking and practices.