About Mace Services Sectors Projects Locations Media Centre Careers Contact Us You are here: Home » About Mace » Sustainability | More Sustainability Work on More London Plot 7 - one of the most energy efficient office buildings in the UK We strive to create opportunity for our people, clients and communities while preserving resources. We believe that sustainability is a sensitive balance between commercial success and a responsibility to society and the environment. In 2013, our data collection has been even more robust thanks to previous investments in systems, giving us reliable data for energy and carbon, water, waste, materials certification and biodiversity. We trained more than 600 people in this last year on sustainability best practice. A major milestone for 2013 was the launch of our Energy Hub, an innovative energy forecasting and purchasing strategy, which uses 100% renewable energy from a single preferred supplier, to supply our corporate offices and construction projects. This resulted in a 68% reduction in carbon emissions from sites where we pay the energy bills and a £300k saving over the course of the year. As part of our own mission to establish an imperative equilibrium in our work and corporate culture, we have developed four key values to drive our approach: To incorporate sustainability into everything that we do To champion thought leadership and innovation To be a valued member of the business and global community To conserve resources while growing our business To help us deliver against these objectives we follow a sustainability framework across our business: 1. Organisation Our Director of Sustainability provides strategic leadership on the development of policies and frameworks for delivery. in addition, we have created a company-wide reporting mechanism that is providing us with the valuable management information for setting future direction. 2. Environment Implementation of the Mace Environmental Management System (EMS) has significantly reduced the impact of our activities on our environment, yet we refuse to rest on our laurels. Determining accurate environmental data is enabling us to manage environmental impacts as well as increasing efficiencies; and a new online application across the business is continuing to improve these results. We continuously seek new ways to reduce energy, emissions, waste, water and unnecessary travel, across our business operations and for our clients. 3. People We recognise that our business is built on the strength, wellbeing and diversity of our people. Our employees must be skilled, experienced, motivated and, most importantly, safe in order to ensure that we meet our business objectives. Our strong focus on performance and career management, learning and development, appropriate remuneration and benefits, and a healthy work-life balance is delivered through a coordinated HR strategy. The result of these initiatives, and the unerring commitment we have made to our employees, is a high level of employee engagement and a company that has firmly established itself among the most envied of employers. 4. Clients and other stakeholders Mace has been built on strong and enduring customer relationships. We pride ourselves on being a learning organisation and define processes, performance improvement and company development by passionately trying to get closer to, and work better with, our stakeholders. By building quality relationships with our internal and external stakeholders, we develop a shared understanding and a real appreciation of what the current and future needs for our services may be. 5. Supply chain How our business operates in the marketplace and how we influence suppliers are key considerations in our approach to sustainability. As part of the new sustainability framework, environmental transparency, poverty avoidance, anti-corruption, responsible sourcing, ethics, and whole life costing are all essential to our alignment with clients; we work with forward-thinking customers and suppliers to achieve greater sustainability standards. 6. Community Because of the operations of our business, as well as the services we offer, we understand we have both positive and negative effects on communities. Mace has an enviable track record of delivering projects in a way that maximises the benefit to local communities worldwide and develops construction solutions that consider the long-term impact on the communities in which we work. Mace’s community regeneration programme is designed to provide greater opportunities for local people to become involved in the projects we deliver, and has informed the industry’s approach to social inclusion. Internally there are a number of components that comprise our approach to community investment, including employee engagement, payroll giving, volunteering schemes, donating in-kind goods to charities and working in partnership with chosen charities. Related People Isabel McAllister Sustainability Director Email Related Projects Park House A large mixed-use development joins Europe’s busiest shopping street. 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