Our Corporate Environmental Performance

Resource Consumption

As a construction company, Bouygues UK recognises that our operations can have a significant impact on the environment both at a local level (on and around our sites) and globally (via the manufacture, supply and transport of materials etc), due to the use and wastage of valuable and finite resources.

We are continually striving to improve our operations to reduce water and energy consumption and to try to reduce waste (by elimination in the design process, use of materials with high recycled content and good site practice).

We have been measuring operational resource consumption and wastage for two years on all of our sites and the 2009 figures are reported below both as totals and per £100k turnover.

For 2010, we aim to improve on these figures by continuing our company environmental awareness campaign, training our staff on the importance of our impacts on the environment and introducing further energy and water efficiency measures.

Carbon Footprinting

Although we are serious in our commitment to reduce emissions of gases that have high global warming potential and in completing a carbon footprint, this process is still in its infancy, due to the complicated nature of retrieving some of the data.

For 2009, we have undertaken a partial carbon footprint of our project operations, in alignment with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and DEFRA/DEEC guidance, as shown in the table below.

We are investigating ways of retrieving the missing data for 2010 reporting.

To show our commitment to reducing our impact on global warming, BYUK has signed up to the 10:10 initiative to aim to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10% over 2010, relative to turnover.

Carbon Eco

The biggest contribution to carbon dioxide emissions from the construction of a new building is from the materials used in the construction process.

To this end, Bouygues UK has developed a new carbon footrpinting tool - ‘CarbonEco', which can be used to predict the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from a proposed building. This can help to inform design changes to reduce the embodied impact of the building on global warming.