Galliford Try is a national housebuilding and construction company delivering industry leading performance in the construction of a sustainable future.
Environment & Climate Change
At Galliford Try we acknowledge that protection of the environment and climate change are amongst the greatest challenges weface, both as a society and a business. We recognise that we have a key part to play through:
- Minimising the environmental impact and carbon footprint of our operations.
- The long-term sustainability of the products and services we provide.
No environmental notices were received, or environmental prosecutions pursued, against the Group in the financial year.
One of our key environmental performance initiatives has been our commitment to the Government’s Halving Waste to Landfill Commitment (½W2L) that aims to reduce the amount of construction, demolition and excavation waste being sent to landfill by 50% by 2012. As part of this commitment, we have established waste reduction targets and waste performance indicators for three of our four Divisions and have worked in close collaboration with the Government’s Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to identify opportunities to reduce the amount of packaging waste generated through the supply and installation of kitchen units across our Housing Division
We continue to monitor the quantities of construction, demolition and excavation waste that we generate and dispose of during our construction activities. Our percentage diversion from landfill performance for 2010 was 60%, which is an improvement upon our 56% that was achieved in 2009. Additionally, when soil and stones are excluded from this figure our percentage diversion from landfill performance for 2010 increased to 76% compared to 54% that we achieved in 2009.
We continued to deliver our bespoke four day IOSH Managing Environmental Responsibilities training course to further raise environmental awareness across the Company. As of May 2011, this course has been successfully delivered to a further 147 employees, which amounts to a further 588 training days on top of those previously delivered and reported. Additionally, we have provided in-house environmental training to 327 employees that accounts for a further 137 environmental training days.
We have continued with our project to get all our business units certified to ISO 14001:2004 despite the national downturn in the construction sector. Nevertheless, 17 business units (out of a possible 25) have now achieved third party certification to ISO 14001:2004.
We have also supported and used the National Community Wood Recycling Project (NCWRP) that is a nationwide network of wood recycling social enterprises (“Projects”) that collect waste timber from construction sites. These Projects employ the long term unemployed; people with learning difficulties; people with mild mental health problems; ex–offenders; and those in drink / drug rehabilitation.
