GROUP SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2010 2010
WSP IS THE FIRST BUSINESS IN THE WORLD TO RUN A PERSONAL CARBON TRACKING SCHEME FOR OUR STAFF.
TAKING ACTION : PERSONAL ACTION CARBON TRACKING FOR STAFF
Established in 2009, WSP’s Personal Action Carbon Tracking programme (PACT) covered Sweden, the USA, Australia, the Middle East, South Africa and the UK in 2010. This award-winning programme helps our staff monitor and reduce their personal carbon emissions resulting from their out-of-work travel, holidays and homes. It now has 1,500 members in seven countries, and is licensed by 12 external companies and organisations. These include: Aviva Investors, The Co-operative, Cisco and the London Borough of Camden. See
www.wsppact.com for further details.
For PACT we won the following awards in 2010:
• The CoreNet UK Chapter Award for sustainability (UK)
• The Managing Partners’ Forum Award for innovation (UK)
• The Green Business Award for employee engagement (UK)
• The Washington Business Journal Workplace Green Business Award (USA)
• Organizational Innovation Award for PACT – Climate Change Business Journal Awards (USA)
STAFF EXPERTISE We ensure optimum service delivery by
constantly improving and increasing the scope of our measurement and reporting, and developing staff to be leaders in their fi eld through appropriate training in key sustainability issues such as green building design and energy modelling. In green building accreditation we have qualifi ed staff in all our operations. For example: • WSP Africa has 32 Green Star accredited professionals (10% of the entire continent’s SA Green Star accredited professionals)
• WSP Flack + Kurtz has 144 LEED accredited professionals, including 22 with the newest LEED accreditation rating of LEED BD+C
• WSP Lincolne Scott has 80 GBCA Green Star accredited professionals; 20 LEED accredited professionals; seven NZGBC Green Star accredited professionals; one Greenmark accredited professional; two Green Star certifi ed assessors and one BREEAM certifi ed assessor.
GLOBAL E-LEARNING PROGRAMME
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In 2010, 74% of all our staff worldwide participated in our e-learning sustainability programme, and in 2011 we plan to introduce a global green engineering training programme where the learning needs of our engineers will be assessed and courses developed to meet them. Furthermore, we will explore ways of further integrating sustainability into the operating procedures of each business and evaluate current sustainability staff training programmes. Finally, our e-learning programme will be rolled out as a mandatory part of all staff inductions.
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In 2010, 74% of staff completed our e-learning sustainability training programme.
ACTIVELY MANAGING THE IMPACT OF OUR OWN OPERATIONS
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