Sustainability success for Carillion in industry green awards
June 2011
Leading support services and construction company Carillion is celebrating twice over after having its community support and green credentials recognised at the highest level.
The company, which includes Newcastle-based Carillion Energy Services, has topped its sector and gained Platinum status in the prestigious Business in the Community (BiTC) Corporate Responsibility Index – and it has just been named in the top ten of the Sunday Times Best Green Companies awards.
With perfect timing the news also comes at the close of Carillion’s annual Sustainability Week of events, which coincides with World Environment Day.
The BiTC Corporate Responsibility Index is the UK’s leading voluntary benchmark of Corporate Responsibility (CR) which compares, celebrates and communicates the social and environment performance of companies. Those that achieve Platinum status demonstrate that CR is embedded in strategic decision-making and incentive structures and have improved CR management and performance over three/four years.
While the Sunday Times Best Green Companies awards recognises companies at the cutting edge of improving corporate environmental performance and this year Carillion achieved tenth place overall and fourth in its category (Bigger Companies with High Environmental Impact).
Carillion is one of only 15 companies to remain in the Best Green Companies top 60 list since it started four years ago.
Encouraged by this success hundreds of Carillion employees have just taken part in a range of community and green-focused events as part of Sustainability Week.
In Newcastle, for example, call centre staff gave up their time to help local respite care charity St Oswald’s Hospice undertake a telephone fundraising exercise.
Carillion Energy Services staff helping St Oswald’s Hospice
Liz Watchorn, Community Engagement Manager at Carillion Energy Services, said: “This was just one event of many and was a perfect way to help promote sustainable communities in this region. It was also good fun for the staff who all want to help again in the future.”
Sarah Johnson, Head of Fundraising at St Oswald’s Hospice, added: “The man power that the Carillion team provided helped us achieve in one evening what would have taken us weeks. They were professional, committed to the cause, quick to learn and great fun.”
Carillion chose this year’s Sustainability Week to launch its latest 2020 Sustainability Strategy which concentrates on six positive outcomes: enable low-carbon economies; protect the environment; lead the way in our sector; build a successful business; support sustainable communities and provide better prospects for our people.
The strategy aims to build on the success of its considerable record in sustainability and support Carillion’s goal to become the leading sustainable support services company.
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Notes to editors
Carillion is a leading support services company with a substantial portfolio of Public Private Partnership projects and extensive construction capabilities. The Group had annual revenue in 2010 of £5.1 billion, employs around 50,000 people and operates across the UK, in the Middle East and Canada.
The Group has four business segments.
Support services, which includes facilities management, facilities services, energy services, utility services, road maintenance, rail services and consultancy services.
Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects, which includes our investing activities in PPP projects in our chosen sectors of Defence, Health, Education, Transport, Secure and other Government accommodation.
Middle East construction services, which includes our building and civil engineering activities in the Middle East.
Construction services (excluding the Middle East), which includes our building, civil engineering and developments activities in the UK and our construction activities in Canada.
On 21 April, Carillion acquired Eaga plc, which has been rebranded Carillion Energy Services (CES). CES Services is a leading independent energy services provider and one of the largest installers of renewable technologies in the UK. CES employs around 4,500 people and operates across three main markets: carbon services where CES is a market leader in the provision of carbon savings to energy generators and utilities to assist them in meeting their regulatory obligations; Heating and Renewables Services where CES is one of the largest installers of domestic heating and renewable technologies; and Managed Services where CES provides outsourced solutions to a range of customers.
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