How to use this document Our Corporate Sustainability awards can help demonstrate our values as a company and differentiate us from our competitors, when included in bids. You can either insert the following three pages directly into your proposal, or pick any of the awards presented, with or without the explanation, to suit your client and engagement. Our sustainability performance Our awards Sustainability services Sustainability performance Our Sustainability & Climate Change practice were ‘highly commended’ in the consultancy of the year award at the 2013 BusinessGreen Leaders Awards, having won the award outright in both 2011 and 2012. We were highly commended twice at this year’s Management Consultancies Association (MCA) awards for our sustainability work. We’ve been recognised as one of the UK's most responsible businesses in Business in the Community's annual benchmark index, earning the highest rating - for ensuring that our long term vision and strategy builds a more sustainable future. Environmental performance Community contribution We achieved the Carbon Trust Standard certificate for the third time this year, for measuring, managing and reducing the CO2 from our offices and business travel.TBC. We achieved the BREEAM 'Outstanding' rating for sustainable building design, construction and operation at our More London office - the scheme's highest scoring office building in the UK. We’re delighted to have also achieved a second BREEAM Outstanding rating In 2011, we renewed and retained our Business in the Community CommunityMark status for a further three years. This is the UK's only national standard for community engagement.
- ‘in design’, for the refurbishment of our Embankment Place office.tbc Workplace & diversity (continued) For seven years, we’ve ranked amongst the leaders in The Sunday Times 25 Best Big Companies to Work For. For the seventh year we’ve been one of the top 50 organisations where women want to work recognising our commitment to increasing the diversity of our business. We’ve won a 2013 Opportunity Now Diversity award for our work to boost the number of female partners in leadership positions. Workplace & diversity (continued) Workplace & diversity We were ranked in the top ten private sector organisations for both ethnicity and gender in the Race for Opportunity Benchmarking survey. We’re again listed as one of the UK’s top 100 employers in Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2013, the definitive list of Britain's most gay-friendly workplaces. We've been an accredited UK Living Wage Employer since the scheme’s introduction in 2011. This applies to all of our staff and those of our suppliers who work permanently at our sites across the UK. We’ve been a London living Wage employer since 2006. Our standards Environmental management Business continuity Information security ISO 14001 provides assurance that we are managing the environmental impacts of our business activities. This standard offers our stakeholders confidence in our business continuity systems and processes. ISO/IEC 27001 provides assurance of our management controls for protecting information assets across the firm. Quality management Health and safety Information integrity
This standard enhances the robust risk and quality management processes we already have in place. OHSAS 18001 helps us to continuously challenge ourselves to make sure that our people are appropriately cared for. BS 10008 deals with the authenticity and integrity of electronic information which may be used as legal evidence. Energy management Achieving ISO 50001 has helped us to measure and understand our use of energy across the business.