Sustainability Governance

A clear understanding of sustainability governance is of paramount importance to Urban&Civic.

This helps to increase accountability and transparency and to maintain strong, open-dialogue relationships with trusted partners, local communities and our employees. As always, this approach is based on our values of quality, integrity, passion, partnership and innovation.

A key step in our Sustainability Framework has been to establish a robust governance structure and define responsibilities across core functions to ensure that there is clear ownership of each element. Accountability for our Sustainability Framework sits with the Board, and is advised by the Sustainability and Health and Safety Committee. The requirements of the Sustainability Framework then flow down through the business, through the Executive Management Committee (EMC) and its members. Reports are submitted to and heard at each Board and EMC meeting . All employees have the opportunity to provide their sustainability ideas and feedback through the Sustainability Champions Group which meets on a quarterly basis comprising representatives from different sites and departments.

The Head of Sustainability acts as the lead for sustainability in the business, horizon scanning for the continual improvement we strive for, and as a multi-way liaison interacting between the different levels of the governance structure and monitoring the flow of information across the business. The Head of Sustainability also oversees the independent review of our sustainability objectives and metrics, which sit under the Framework, including reporting and statutory declarations.

OUR SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH