OUR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

2018/2019 BUROHAPPOLD

Contents

1. Foreword 5 2. Climate action 6 3. Energy and carbon 8 4. Economic performance 10 5. Fair practice and procurement 12 6. Health and wellbeing 14 7. Inclusivity, equality and diversity 16 8. Community involvement 18 9. Training and education 20 10. Materials and waste 22 11. Clean water and sanitation 24 12. Travel and transport 26 13. Biodiversity 28 30 Cover 14. Description and disclosures The High Line 15. Goals and standards alignment 32 New York, NY, USA

A fine example of a regeneration project that has been of benefit to the city of New York economically and its residents’ wellbeing. Architect Field Operations/Diller Scofidio+Renfro

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1. Foreword

BuroHappold has always been a practice that has values that go beyond the basic requirements of our profession to encompass the broad environment that we sit within. We value human wellbeing, we embrace mutual responsibility and we understand that a sustainable future is intrinsic to the economic and social impact of our work. This Global Sustainability Report seeks to show how we implement our principles and engage positively with the wider environment. Much of OUR BUSINESS the report aligns our many activities within the framework of global initiatives such as the UN We aim to be Goals (SDGs) and the Net Zero carbon for Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). In doing so, our own business we have set out our own targets for improvement operations by the and plan to report on these in the future. end of the financial To align with our recent climate emergency year ending commitments, I would draw you attention to our April 2021. energy and carbon targets stated to the right. I commend this report to you and look forward to the future journey we have mapped out.

OUR PROJECTS Our target is that all new build Neil Squibbs CEO projects will be Net Zero carbon in operation by 2030 and all projects by 2050. Image: Harry Borden Harry Image:

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This section relates most closely to: UN SDG 13 — Climate Action

2. Climate action

Our aim is to help our clients understand the urgency of climate change. We can advise what climate action means for EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES their projects, in terms of reducing emissions, the risks they AND PROJECTS face in a changing climate and the opportunities to unlock Projects:

wider benefits through climate action. Getty/Marco_Piunti Image: C40 Cities Climate Research provides cities with ambitious plans In 2019, we initiated and signed a series to tackle greenhouse gas emissions of engineering declarations covering the and air quality simultaneously. Actions role of civil, structural and building services Collaborated with our peers and that could yield an 87% reduction in professions in tackling the climate and clients to advocate for strong green house gas emissions, a 49% biodiversity emergences as follows: national policy through organisations reduction in PM2.5 levels, 223,000 OUR TARGETS such as the Aldersgate Group, in www.structuralengineersdeclare.com premature deaths averted and up to support of the UK’s commitment to We have developed the following strategic objectives as part of the Climate Emergency Action Plan: www.buildingservicesengineersdeclare.com $583 billion in economic benefit Net Zero carbon by 2050. We have www.civilengineersdeclare.com Our work to help refine and analyse participated in the steering group STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AIM These sites were sites created with the for the UKGBC Net Zero Carbon ’s 1.5° Climate Action support of the Happold Foundation. Buildings Framework Definition which Plan has contributed to devising a Our firm: to deliver a climate and To demonstrate leadership in taking action on the science and reducing launched in 2019. set of actions that will both increase biodiversity action plan for BuroHappold. our own footprint. We have taken the following actions the speed of GHG reduction while within the business: Through considered, shared action also addressing environmental justice Our projects: to understand and address To demonstrate leadership in taking action on the science. Improving across the whole business and with our Our leadership commitment to and social equity. Where possible, the social and environmental impact of our project impacts, while encouraging clients to seek to mitigate clients and collaborators, we believe tackling climate change as a business benefits were analysed and presented our projects. climate impact and build resilient solutions. we will harness the best ideas and priority: Produced a radical plan to spatially to ensure that actions embed climate action more firmly into reduce our own emissions, placing benefit all New Yorkers. For example, Our people: to develop our knowledge and Collaboration to ensure we all have the knowledge, skills and competencies our practice. This is a process that will the climate emergency as a key by identifying communities without skills, share this and collaborate widely. to effect change, and that we are empowered to do so effectively. continue over the coming year and we pillar of all our project work and bike lanes, the City could focus on will constantly revisit our plans to make developing our climate change engaging with those communities Our services: to ensure we respond Working together to identify areas of opportunity and need, both sure we ensure and accelerate change services to clients. to install new bike infrastructure and to today’s needs and are agile to meet current and future, without delay. Building new services based on new within our business. improve health and safety. tomorrow’s. skills and wider briefs that we develop with our clients. Produced a BuroHappold climate BuroHappold was proud to win emergency action plan covering the NCE100 Award for Impact on Our network: to position ourselves to Ensuring we play our full role in influencing the market, the professions, our firm, projects, people, services, Climate Resilience in 2019. have greatest influence. regulations and policies that will support our goals, and ensure that network and operations. everyone is able to participate in this journey.

Our operations: to place the response To embed the commitments we have made as a fundamental part of our to climate and biodiversity emergency vision and strategy — measuring performance against goals and holding Advancing the climate action agenda central to our business operations. ourselves accountable for delivering them. with our clients and our business operations is intrinsic to what we do 6 7 GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

This section relates most closely to: UN SDG 7 — Affordable and Clean Energy OUR BASELINE AND TARGETS GRI 302 — Energy GRI 305 — Emissions An estimate of our Global Carbon Footprint from May 2018 to April 2019 is:

Type of Emission Tonnes of CO2e/person Absolute Tonnes of CO2e

(a) Scope 1 – Direct (Gas emission and owned transport) 0.156 175 (b) Scope 2 – Indirect (Purchased electricity and heat) 0.462 803 3. Energy and carbon (d) Scope 3 – Indirect (Business travel) 1.665 2,894 (e) Scope 3 – Indirect (Commuter travel) 0.478 831 (f) Scope 3 – Indirect (Other- suppliers, waste, hotels, etc..) 0.346 602

TOTAL (without offset) 3.108 5,305

(g) Carbon offsets/Green tariff -0.293 -300

TOTAL (with offset) 2.815 5,005

BuroHappold 5% Scope 1 Direct 11% (Gas emission and global emissions Owned Transport) 2018-19 15% We believe that solving the issues facing the global energy Scope 2 Indirect Tonnes of CO2e/person industry is one of the most important challenges of EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES 15% (Purchased electricity and heat) modern times. AND PROJECTS Scope 3 Indirect Energy Consultancy Projects (Business travel) This drives our passion for finding the Beyond our project and consultancy OPDC energy, daylight and best engineering solutions on our work, we aim to minimise our operational 54% Scope 3 Indirect projects, in order that the three pillars carbon footprint through more efficient overheating in tall buildings + soft (Commuter travel) of the energy trilemma are achieved. and considerate practices. We are landings and POE framework These are minimising energy usage and committed to producing a radical plan Zero Carbon Scope 3 Indirect the impacts on climate change, ensuring to reduce carbon emissions from our (Other – suppliers, waste, North Shore hotels etc.) security of supply and increasing buildings and travel. In order to achieve affordability for consumers. this, we have been investing in online tools that enable us to monitor our Our energy work ranges from building- energy consumption more accurately scale demand and supply analysis right and more frequently. We aim to be Net Zero carbon for our own Our target is that all new build projects will be up to city or national scale infrastructure business operations by the end of financial Net Zero carbon in operation by 2030 and all design. We work with private enterprises, year 2020/21. projects by 2050. local authorities and councils, universities and national governments to This will include scope one and two emissions for our This is in line with global initiatives such as the achieve carbon emission reductions that offices and scope three business travel. Key steps include: WorldGBC / C40 Cities advancing Net Zero campaign. satisfy both technical and commercial Establishing a robust baseline including gathering It will require joined-up action with our clients and requirements. reliable energy consumption data for all our offices. collaborators as set out in the Engineers Declare Our dedication to improving energy Identifying opportunities for energy savings and commitments. We are determined to play our part and efficiency and reducing carbon reduced travel impacts. advocating change in pursuit of this objective. emissions on our projects has led to Identifying the potential for on-site renewable the development of our “building energy generation. performance dashboard”; an online platform that summarises global Producing office-specific plans with short, medium operational energy data from our and longer term objectives to reduce emissions. We aim as a firm to be Net as-built projects. The dashboard will Purchasing clean renewable energy supplies to our Zero carbon for our own give us a greater ability to respond operations with recognised certification / verification to increasingly demanding energy business operations by the e.g. REGO certified electricity. and carbon targets across all our end of the financial year markets worldwide, developing our Offsetting residual emissions through recognised understanding of how the buildings we high quality mechanisms. ending April 2021 design perform in practice. With this Disclosing our performance in a recognised way “feedback loop” approach, we want to such as using the UKGBC Net Zero carbon buildings enhance our contribution to energy framework declaration. decarbonisation globally. BUILDING PERFORMANCE DASHBOARD An online platform that summarises global operational energy data from our as-built projects.

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This section relates most closely to: GRI 201 — Economic Performance

4. Economic performance

Details of BuroHappold’s Economic Performance is published in the Annual Review 2018/19

The company financial year runs from 1 May to 30 April.

In the year 2018/2019, the key figures for the whole group were:

Turnover £173 million Operating profit £22 million Profit margin 13%

NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY URBAN SCIENCES BUILDING Newcastle, UK This award winning building sets a new benchmark for campus design, achieving a balance of sustainability, space flexibility and operational efficiency. The building acts as a ‘living laboratory’, bringing together facilities managers and sustainability experts, enabling continuous research and learning in this field.

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This section relates most closely to: UN SDG 8 —Decent Work and Economic Growth INTERNATIONAL LIVING FUTURE GRI 204 — Procurement Practices INSTITUTES™ JUST™ LABEL. GRI 205 — Anti-corruption USA GRI 206 — Anti-competitive Behaviour GRI 408 — Child Labour BuroHappold Engineering North America GRI 409 — Forced or Compulsory Labour received the International Living Future Institutes™ JUST™ label, a significant milestone for the overall wellbeing of our North American practice. The programme gives our firm the opportunity to become a more socially just practice by putting a score on our activities, such as employee wellbeing, by tracking our financial 5. Fair practice and procurement donations and contributions, and measuring our level of community involvement. Acting almost like a report card, our office recently scored highly on the JUST rating system.

Integrity is of fundamental importance to BuroHappold. In the context of our business activities, procurement EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES processes and relationships, we respect the spirit and detail AND PROJECTS of the laws and regulations in all countries where we operate. JUST label for US BuroHappold is committed to paying We treat our suppliers with the same We always: a living wage for all employees, using integrity, respect and professionalism we Seek to add value wherever possible the Poverty in America: Living Wage expect from each other and we actively and deliver our promises Calculator to assist in determining develop mutually beneficial relationships the minimum living wage. with those that share our values and are Aim to work only with suppliers aligned to our Equality and Diversity Policy. who share our business and ethical standards The practice has recently put in place a Act fairly, transparently and ethically Code of Conduct Policy that we have Meet our contractual obligations and required all employees to read and work together to resolve any disputes confirm their acceptance. This Code of The practice has Conduct refers to the following policies Always communicate honestly and that aim to ensure we implement transparently recently put in place fair practices in our employment and Seek to develop strong and lasting a Code of Conduct procurement policies: relationships Ensure total compliance with the Policy that we Anti-Bribery Policy laws and regulations of the country require all employees Gifts and Hospitality Policy in which we are operating, including to read and confirm Anti-Fraud Policy working hours, pay (e.g. Living Wage), Conflicts of Interest Policy welfare, and human rights. their acceptance Modern Slavery Policy Speak Up (Whistleblowing) Policy

OUR BASELINE AND TARGETS Develop our procurement processes to ensure compliance with the policies stated above. Maintain a global days payable outstanding time of a maximum of 45 days

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This section relates most closely to: UN SDG 3 — Good Health and Wellbeing UN SDG 11 — Sustainable Cities and Communities GRI 403 — Occupational Health and Safety

6. Health and wellbeing

OUR OFFICE ACHIEVES WELL CERTIFIED™ GOLD 100% of the office annual power is purchased in renewable energy credits.

At BuroHappold we believe the built environment should support people to feel great, help get the job done and EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES enable businesses to thrive. AND PROJECTS Los Angeles and We recognise that the skills, capability successful work/life balance. We have BuroHappold is walking the walk and passion of our own people are at the sought external assurance of our through WELL certification of two of heart of what we want to achieve and approach by gaining WELL certification our offices, including the first WELL the health and wellbeing of our people for two or our offices. project in Poland is important to the continued success of the practice. We recognise that the We have provided advice on many Design for Wellbeing in Higher projects that we work on have people at projects about Health and Wellbeing Education. their heart and the quality of the inside in the built environment extending and outside of buildings has an impact our professional offer in this area on our health and how we feel. using employees who have developed expertise. Some of these are illustrated A key element of what we do comes below to the right. from our global Health and Safety policy statement and H&S management system. We ensure that our employees work in a healthy and safe environment by providing a three yearly global training programme with regular reports on any incidents and training progress.

The practice provides resources such as Employee Assistance Programmes OUR BASELINE AND TARGETS that provides free and fully confidential We have certified two of our offices through WELL Certification. support and advice to employees We will aim to achieve third party health and wellness and their immediate family. These are certification for two additional offices by 2020. supported by a number of initiatives and a comprehensive collection of We are currently monitoring environmental conditions in two of Health and Wellbeing information on our offices. We will aim to implement continual environmental our intranet that includes Mental Health monitoring in one quarter of all offices by 2020, with one done OUR WARSAW OFFICE ACHIEVES WELL CERTIFIED™ GOLD First Aiders, activities and advice on to RESET standards. maintaining a healthy body and mind This prestigious honour, the first to be awarded We are pursuing WELL, Living Building Challenge, Fitwel, and to any project in Poland, was given to the as well as top tips on maintaining a Health Impact Assessments on 17 of our current projects. We building for meeting the IWBI’s WELL Building aim to establish an internal health and wellness checklist for all Standard™. The standard focuses on improving projects by 2020 and double our WELL, LBC, Fitwel, RESET and the health and wellness of people in the buildings where we live, work and play. Health Impact Assessment projects.

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This section relates most closely to: UN SDG 1 — No Poverty UN SDG 5 — Gender Equality UN SDG10 — Reduced Inequalities GRI 402 — Labour Management Relations GRI 405 — Diversity and Equal Opportunity THE UK GENDER PAY GAP REPORT GRI 406 — Non-discrimination The UK Gender Gap Report allows us to continually assess our aims for greater gender equality in our practice and the wider engineering industry. UK GENDER PAY GAP REPORT 2018 UK GENDER PAY GAP REPORT 2018 7. Inclusivity, equality and diversity What is the Gender Pay Gap Report?

UK Our people underpin everything we Our Gender Pay Gap reporting, focuses on hourly pay do. Respecting individual difference and bonuses paid to both male and female employees (recognising that Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs whilst ensuring everyone has the same GENDER PAY does not currently include all gender identities). This chance to reach their potential is key report examines: to the success of our collective efforts. Mean and median hourly pay GAP REPORT The UK Gender Gap Report allows us to Mean and median bonuses continually assess our aims for greater Proportion of males and females receiving bonus gender equality in our practice and the Pay distribution by gender. 2018 wider engineering industry.

ENGINEERING WITH PRIDE Hourly pay rates and bonus payments Proportion of employees receiving a bonus

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALES & FEMALES WOMEN MEN

Mean Median Average Middle

Hourly pay 22.1% 22.6% We are proud to embrace diversity and 75.9% 79.8% committed to supporting equality for Bonus paid 25.3% 20.0%

The gender pay gap shows the difference between the In accordance with the regulations, the calculations all in the workplace. Together, we are average earnings of male and female employees and are taken from the 12 month period ending 5th is expressed as a percentage of male earnings (e.g. April 2018, hence they are bonus payments made in females earn X% less than male employees). The data November 2017. one creative community. is taken as per the regulations’ requirements, from a ‘snap shot’ date of 5th April 2018 and so does not represent our current position. #bhwithpride BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING

BuroHappold is determined to continuously enable and embed practices which foster a diverse and inclusive culture. EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES AND STORIES These practises reflect the varied cultures BuroHappold. We strive to create a of the communities and clients we safe and inclusive workplace for all our Inclusive and Diversity serve — a culture where all our people, employees to bring their whole selves Employee led diversity and inclusion irrespective of gender identity, ethnic or to work and be accepted for who they communities: national origin, sexual orientation, marital are. Our employee resource groups and – Representatives of Women in or civil partner status, pregnancy, race, Diversity and Inclusion Forums, provide Engineering; age, religious belief, or disability have the employees with opportunities to share – Fairness, Awareness, Inclusion and support and opportunities to reach and experiences, best practice and ideas Respect (FAIR) group ; exceed their potential. with the business on how we can all – USA Inclusion and Diversity foster a culture of inclusion. Groups. We firmly believe that our engineering does not stop at the site boundary. Ted By looking at our business practices Happold and the founding partners and activities through a diversity believed that BuroHappold should lens, we will continue to strengthen support the needs of society beyond our community in addressing bias its immediate activity as a professional and supporting the development practice in the built environment, and this and visibility of under-represented continues to be on of our key principles. employees, we aim to further promote We encourage our projects to have a the rich diversity of our employees’ genuinely positive impact for the wider experiences, talent and ideas. economy and society, with many of our projects forming part of broader local regeneration, stimulating the economy, creating employment opportunities and working with local education providers. This is a commitment we take seriously, with a number of programmes to engage with communities and policymakers to ensure long-term sustainability and success of our projects, sharing our skills with those most in need and inspire the BASELINE AND FUTURE TARGET next generation. Our 2019 Culture Survey highlighted positive insights into our employee As a truly interconnected community, experience, with 87% of respondents believing that BuroHappold offers Inclusion is an integral part of life at a fair, inclusive and respectful environment. We aim to increase this we value human wellbeing, embrace figure to 90% at the next survey and have introduced measures such as mutual responsibility and strive to be our fairness and inclusion awareness sessions and prevention of sexual harassment training to support our goal. an inclusive and diverse practice

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This section relates most closely to: UN SDG 2 — End Hunger UN SDG 11 — Sustainable Cities and Communities UN SDG 12 — Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions UN SDG 17 — Partnerships for Goals GRI 203 — Indirect Economic Impacts GRI 411 — Rights of Indigenous Peoples GRI 413 — Local Communities 8. Community involvement

BuroHappold believes in the need to be actively involved with our local communities wherever we can, as well as making our EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES skills, experience and time available to those in society that AND PROJECTS are most in need, wherever they are located in the world. Los Angeles Eco Village SOS project focused on sustainable, Addressing inequity through project- sustainable development issues such as affordable housing community based based and outreach work in tandem criminal justice, affordable housing, and living in los Angeles. with local UN SDGs, will help to ensure sustainable food supplies. Our LA office Bridges to Prosperity equitable access to opportunity in housing, engages in numerous local volunteer Several projects across the practice, education, and quality public space. activities such as Friends of the Los including Rwanda and Panama. Their Angeles River Annual River Clean-up, Los stories are told in these videos. One of our main programmes for Angeles County Homeless Count and community involvement is Share Our tree planting activities. In we Skills (SOS), established in 2014, which contribute 2% of our average net profits enables our employees to carry out to the Prime Minister’s National Relief non-fee paying work during regular work Fund which provides immediate relief to time. Much of this work is focused on BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY families of those killed in natural disasters We engage in Gasiza, Rwanda international communities in Africa, Asia like floods, cyclones and earthquakes. and South America but it also involves numerous local Our engineers worked on the work with the communities where our In , our team works with the project as part of our Share Our community Skills initiative, a scheme that offices are located. The SOS programme Lighthouse Club Hong Kong, a charity allows individuals to give their has a long history of supporting the that promotes industry initiatives time to projects without charge. Happold Foundation, a charity that is safety and provides poverty alleviation BuroHappold and Price&Myers jointly funded the work on the dedicated to using engineering skills and and educational support to construction and volunteer bridge, alongside fundraising by experience to make a positive impact industry employees to avoid fatalities, the engineers and sponsorship on people’s lives. It works with young injuries and illness. activities from the Happold Foundation. people, educators and researchers to shape communities who want to improve the built environment.

In addition we work with local charities and non-profit organisations by engaging in numerous local community A BRIDGE ACROSS THE RIO Calovebora, Panama initiatives and volunteer activities. Our OUR BASELINE AND TARGETS charitable contributions in the UK are At the end of the project, a nine coordinated each year by a group called BuroHappold provides 200 employees days annually for SOS year old boy who came to the projects and will continue to do so. site every day to help out told UK Giving. Our team in Los Angeles our team that he wanted to be a works with many local Los Angeles BuroHappold has committed to fund one “Bridges to Prosperity” bridge engineer when he grew up. based non-profit organisations including We certainly hope he can fulfil his project (US$ 30,000) each year for the next 3 years dreams to connect people through Homeboy Inc., Los Angeles Eco Village projects like these. and Our Foods, to address numerous

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This section relates most closely to: UN SDG 4 — Quality Education GRI 404 — Training and Education

9. Training and education

Our vision is to grow our expertise globally through continuous quality learning and opportunities where EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES everyone can thrive. We believe that by providing a learning AND PROJECTS culture where all employees are empowered to own their ACE development and reach their full potential, we are enabling ACE mentorship programme is an HAPPOLD FOUNDATION HELPS TO BRING ENGINEERING TO our organisation to share our knowledge, experience and after school program for US high YOUNG PEOPLE skills with local and wider communities in the engineering and school students who are interested built environment. in , engineering or the construction industry. Learning and education of all employees BuroHappold contributes learning IKB Academy Work Experience is essential for the development and and education opportunities in our Providing work placement experience growth of individuals to continue to local communities in a variety of ways. for school students in Bath, UK shape the future of design and long Through the Happold Foundation term sustainability of our projects. We we support Engineering Futures, encourage opportunities to collaborate Engineering Education and student LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT and share knowledge across all teams, scholarships. We have many links with COHORT geographies and disciplines as well as universities and academic institutions with external partners and communities. Networking and learning that enables us to provide Engineering together. To support this, we offer an integrated Doctorates, internships, and expert- mix of learning methods, from on-the led lectures to students. BuroHappold job-learning supported by mentoring partners with non-profit organisations and coaching, formal courses online and such as Spark, ACE Mentoring, and the face-to-face, professional accreditation Los Angeles Promise Fund to provide through technical development and equitable educational opportunities continued professional development to all. We are also involved in events through related professional bodies. in many locations to raise awareness of engineering with school children, How are we growing our expertise? including visits to schools to talk about Initiatives include; computational STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering OUR BASELINE AND TARGETS hackathons which are focussed and Maths). sessions to develop programming Learning and Development satisfaction score of Following our 2019 Culture Survey results we and collaborative technology 85%+ from leadership and management formal and will focus development of our managers on regular skills, leadership and management virtual learning offerings feedback to support the empowerment of all employees in their continuous development. We development programmes, our project Make learning scalable and accessible to all will provide all managers with virtual led training in leadership academy and our new Many opportunities employees through virtually-led workshops on coaching and mentoring by Q1 2020. C:Lab programme; designed to build exist on a daily basis for key business skills. Supporting our climate change our consultancy and integration skills ambitions by reducing travel whilst offering quality through academic research, workshops, learning on the job, and development globally. stakeholder engagement, conferences and guest lectures. this is often the most effective way of learning 20 21 GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

This section relates most closely to: UN SDG 11 — Sustainable Cities and Communities UN SDG 12 — Responsible Consumption and Production GRI 301 — Materials GRI 306 — Effluents and Waste

10. Materials and waste Image: OVG Real Estate Real OVG Image:

We recognise the increasing pressures on the earth’s SÜDKREUZ , finite resources and believe in the urgency for responsible EXAMPLE PROJECTS consumption to operate safely within the world’s bio-capacity. This pioneering new office  complex will feature a Südkreuz, Berlin revolutionary fully modular, 2 A new innovative 30,000m office timber-concrete-hybrid Our aim is to reduce the material and Re-used components have been space using a fully modular, timber- structure. waste footprint of the built environment, specified, such as metals with high concrete-hybrid structural system including that of our offices around recycled content. developed with Cree by Rhomberg. The lightweight and rapid construction the world, by advocating the transition Whole-life implications of materials system saves embodied carbon and is towards a circular economy. have been considered. material efficient. GLOBAL WASTE INITIATIVE As a global community of engineering To minimise the resource impact of Towards a Zero Waste NHS Scotland INTERNAL COMMS CAMPAIGN consultants and specialists in the built our offices around the world, we have In collaboration with Zero Waste Scotland, we undertook a waste environment, we are responsible for policies and plans to minimise the management audit of 16 hospitals and designing some of the most iconic overall waste generated and recycle buildings on the skyline and vital reverse logistics appraisal to identify whatever we can. barriers and opportunities to achieving infrastructure that help communities Scotland’s ‘Zero Waste to Landfill’ thrive. We recognise that every design In 2018 we undertook a Global Waste policy. decision we make has an impact on Review to develop a route map to UKGBC Circular Economy Guidance for the whole life material efficiency eliminate avoidable single-use plastic Construction Clients of our client’s projects and the and reduce unnecessary waste. BuroHappold was part of the working waste arising from the construction, group that developed this practical non- operation, maintenance and eventual technical guidance for clients to start deconstruction processes. To reduce the incorporating circular economy into material impact of our projects, we seek their project briefs. OUR BASELINE AND TARGETS to embed circular economy principles into our design approach by requiring all EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES To reduce the impact of our projects, we will seek to: To reduce the impact of our office operations, major projects to identify whether: we will seek to: As of 1st May 2019, all BuroHappold Integrate embodied carbon assessments into the offices have committed to stop Lifetime issues have been addressed standard design and decision-making process. Conduct a waste audit in at least 80% of our purchasing avoidable single-use plastic. in the design, through consideration Review and refresh our material specifications to ISO 14001 offices in the next reporting period. A strategy to transition our global of durability, future use, or ensure they reflect the latest thinking in reduced Finalise our route map and timeframe to achieve offices to zero waste to landfill is under maintenance and repair. embodied impact, responsible sourcing and zero waste to landfill. development. Our Los Angeles office healthy materials. A waste management strategy for is leading the way, with two employees Review the BITC Circular Office guide and identify the project has been drawn up, or trained as TRUE Advisors to help the Deliver circular economy awareness training to a route map to transition BuroHappold offices whether waste reduction has been office achieve certification under our employees to build knowledge capacity and towards a more circular economy. considered and incorporated into a the TRUE Zero Waste Rating System. spark debate on embedding the principles into our site waste management plan. Inspirational initiatives in LA so far standard design approach. include a vermiculture composting system of office organic waste to Develop a firm-wide healthy materials vetting plan. produce compost for the balcony garden which produces seasonal veg for employees and native flowering plants to attract pollinators. 22 23 GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY REPORT BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING

This section relates most closely to: UN SDG 6 — Clean Water and Sanitation GRI 303 — Water and Effluents

11. Clean water and sanitation

Our philosophy is to treat water as a finite resource. We aim to identify water resource strategies that minimise potable EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES MEMUSI WATER demands, provide appropriate resilience, make maximum AND PROJECTS Kenya use of alternative supply sources and provide wider blue BuroHappold is 2012 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park working with the infrastructure benefits. Providing an assessment of the Memusi Foundation proposed park in order to achieve to help supply quality education to Kenyan “good” status in accordance with the communities in need. Water Resource Management (WRM) is Our water strategies are informed EU Water Framework Directive in the process of managing water use in an by a thorough understanding of the order to optimise sustainable water WADI HANIFAH FLOOD integrated manner to ensure that it is used requirements of the project, commercial use, habitats and species, water quality MANAGEMENT PLAN in the most efficient way possible. As such reality, an in-depth understanding of and flood risk. We continue to provide , it is a key part of water cycle management. local and national guidelines and codes advice on ongoing developments. of practice as well as cultural practices. Kibera, Kenya The BuroHappold water group is highly This is especially important as our team Reducing the risk of health risks from experienced at identifying WRM plans delivers sustainable solutions around the contaminated water by implementing at all project scales, from relatively world in areas as diverse as Europe, North flood risk reduction strategies in this small building plots to international America and Asia, and the . Nairobi slum. masterplans. Having identified the baseline water demand of a project, Within our own business, we are a Memusi Water, Kenya OUR BASELINE AND TARGETS Improving water supply for nearly the team considers all water demand relatively low user of water but we We have improved water supply for several (reducing or eliminating the need for supplemental 3000 people so that children have and supply points within that project to have adopted a number of measures to communities in developing countries – we will aim water from irrigation) on a regional/district scale. better access to education by removing ensure that the use of potable water is minimise our water use that includes dual to significantly improve water supply for at least one the time required to collect water. We look to minimise potable water use by maximising as efficient as possible. Inherent to this flush toilets, using aerators on faucets/ community a year. is an understanding of the water quality taps and using recycled grey water in our the efficient use of non-potable sources, including required for a given use so that, as far Warsaw office for toilet flushing. Current water consumption limits allow 125 litres per black water recycling, grey water recycling, as possible, potable water is provided person per day in residential properties the UK. We treatment sewerage effluent or renewed water and only at those points where water of that will aim to limit the design water consumption in new rainwater harvesting. quality is required. residential developments in the UK to 105 litres per person per day. Our targets: By matching quality of supply to quality Measures can come from a wide range of sources. Minimise water demand of demand, along with a suite of demand In the UK we may use measures including the Code reduction measures, our team is typically Match quality of supply with quality of demand for Sustainable Homes and the environmental able to demonstrate saving against We consider the water cycle from performance tools, such as CEEQUAL, BREEAM and Provide appropriate resilience of supply the baseline demand up to 40% by LEAD. considering blackwater, greywater and cloud to coast, and through Identify treatments that provide wider benefits, harvesting technologies for uses such sensitive resource management Having identified the baseline water demand we look such habitat, alternative water source, recreation as irrigation, toilet flushing and water- to reduce this through the application of demand and education. based landscape. we are able to demonstrate 40% reduction measures. This can include low flow taps savings against baseline demand and toilets at a building scale, to zero-scaping

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This section relates most closely to: UN SDG 11 — Sustainable Cities and Communities GRI 305 — Emissions Urban structural parameters

Population density i Functions i BEMOBILITY, BERLIN ELEKTROMOBIL 2.0.

Job density i Germany

Higher usage demands are to BuroHappold worked as part of an be expected in locations with interdisciplinary team to develop Berlin a high job density, as there is a higher need for mobility there. ElektroMobil 2.0, a multi-modal approach that 12. Travel and transport combines different electric forms of transport In Berlin there are currently approximately 1.3 million jobs (with into one, coherent smart scheme, offering a the majority of approximately 1 million in the service sector); the majority of sustainable alternative to current car travel. the jobs in the service sector are in the city centre; focal points: City West, the area around the administrative

>5.0 district and Friedrichstraße 5.0-3.0 >5.0 >5.0 3.0-2.5 5.0-3.0 5.0-3.0 2.5-2.0 Floor-space index 3.0-2.5Jobs Research3.0-2.5 and Sub-centre 2.0-1.5 Most production-centred jobs are 2.5-2.0 education2.5-2.0 locations 1.5-1.2 Floor-space index Jobs Floor-space index Research and Jobs Sub-centre Research and Sub-centre 2.0-1.5 2.0-1.5 education locations education locations 1.2-0.6 found in larger commercial districts 1.5-1.2 Commercial1.5-1.2 locations Main centre 0.6-0.2 1.2-0.6 1.2-0.6 Commercial locations Main centre in theCommercial south, locations west andMain north-west. centre 0.6-0.2 0.6-0.2 4. Location analysis 5 / 21 IMAGE: BuroHappold Engineering BuroHappold IMAGE:

We believe that transport and travel needs to be designed to optimise connectivity, whilst minimising the impact on the EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES environment. We also aim to continually reduce the impact AND PROJECTS of our own business and commuter travel by promoting BeMobility sustainable travel options. A multi-modal approach that combines different electric forms We undertake projects where we provide travelled by each transport mode. As of transport into one coherent advice and design on projects on a consequence each office produces a smart scheme. transport and travel solutions that seeks Commuter Travel Plan with measurable to optimise connectivity. Our transport targets. We have regular initiatives on Commuter Travel Survey 2018 advice has been a key element to our travel including the active commuter Results of our survey across all our master planning work on numerous travel challenge in the US. global offices. developments including innovative solutions for KA-CARE hospital in Riyadh We gather data on carbon emissions and the major redevelopment on the from our Business Travel for each former Filton Airfield, Bristol, UK. business unit but have not yet set targets. 50% of our UK vehicle fleet are We carry out a global commuter travel electric vehicles. survey which includes all our main offices every two years. This produces an overall measure of the impact of our commuter travel on the environment in

terms of CO2 emissions as well as miles 50% of our UK vehicle fleet is electric

OUR BASELINE AND TARGETS Our 2018 emissions from Commuter Travel is 548kg CO2e per person per year globally which has reduced from 900 kg CO2e per person per year in 2014 — we will aim to reduce this by 5% by 2020. We will aim to develop targets for our business travel emissions by 2020. IMAGE: Bloomimages IMAGE:

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This section relates most closely to: UN SDG 14 — Life Below Water UN SDG 15 — Life on Land GRI 304 — Biodiversity

13. Biodiversity IMAGE: BuroHappold Engineering BuroHappold IMAGE: We believe that protecting and enhancing our natural environment is fundamental to delivering sustainable solutions EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES for a better and greener future. Our aim is to continuously seek AND PROJECTS to preserve, create and enhance biodiversity and ecological Los Angeles Countywide functionality on our projects through an integrated, multi- Sustainability Plan, Los Angeles, USA LOS ANGELES COUNTYWIDE SUSTAINABILITY PLAN disciplinary approach that benefits both people and wildlife. Los Angeles, USA Neu Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany BuroHappold led a multidisciplinary We advise our clients and work with improvements. We also prepare Mayfield Regeneration Development, team to develop a regional project teams to avoid and minimise the ecological mitigation strategies and sustainability plan to create a , UK impacts on the natural environment as management and monitoring plans to resilient, inclusive, equitable, and well as integrate biodiversity and green document and track implementation. sustainable county. infrastructure into project planning and design. Our intention is that every Internally we encourage an atmosphere project seeks the best possible outcome of environmental consciousness and in terms of biodiversity gain and ownership, for example our employees associated ecosystem services by: participate in a lunchtime jog and litter picking activity (plogging) in many Understanding the ecological offices. Our new Warsaw office has baseline, been designed to benefit both people NEU SCHÖNEBERG Implementing the mitigation and the planet while the London office Berlin, Germany hierarchy and targeting biodiversity roof terraces are being redesigned Neu Schöneberg is a new urban net gain, with features that provide a range of neighbourhood developed on a Ensuring that projects contribute to ecosystem benefits. brownfield site which forms part of an important green corridor. both national and local biodiversity IMAGE: Collignon Architektur Collignon IMAGE: and green infrastructure targets and policies, Applying international best practice standards for environmental sustainability on our global projects.

To ensure that we do this in a measurable and robust way, we OUR BASELINE AND TARGETS Our aim is to continuously seek to preserve, undertake biodiversity net gain For projects where we provide ecology services, we will aim to: calculations, BREEAM Ecology create and enhance biodiversity and ecological assessments as well as use biodiversity Continue to apply the mitigation hierarchy on all of our projects. functionality on our projects through an toolkits and key performance indicators Integrate biodiversity net gain into every design by 2020. to identify and measure ecological integrated, multi-disciplinary approach that Apply International Finance Corporation (IFC principles) to our benefits both people and wildlife international projects (widely considered to be best practice).

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This section relates most closely to: GRI 101 — Foundation GRI 102 — General Disclosures GRI 103 — Management Approach

14. Description and disclosures

ORGANISATIONAL PROFILE

1. Name of organisation 5. Ownership and legal form 6. Markets served 8. Precautionary principle of 10. Membership of associations To comply with Indian law, BuroHappold approach publishes a Corporate Social Happold LLP Happold LLP is the ultimate parent Our geographic markets generally BuroHappold is a member of many Responsibility Statement on its external company of Engineer include countries in the same areas as We apply the precautionary principle associations, either organisationally or website. 2. Activities, brands, services (non-trading) and Buro Happold Limited, our operational locations. in our own activities to protect our individually. However, some of the main and scale which is the main UK trading company. employees and the environment as part memberships include: BuroHappold has an established Speak In addition to these companies there are BuroHappold has an established muti- of our Health, Safety and Environmental Up (Whistleblowing) Policy which Happold LLP, known as “BuroHappold”, Association of Consultants and a total of 15 corporate trading entities sector client portfolio across culture, management system. We also apply the sets out the internal mechanism for is an international, integrated Engineering (ACE) in the various foreign jurisdictions that sport, commercial and urban development precautionary principle in all our design employees to disclose or expose engineering consultancy operating in BuroHappold operate in, all of which which has expanded in recent years work by promoting sustainable solutions UK Green Building Council — information which relates to suspected 23 locations worldwide with over sixty are wholly owned subsidiaries of Buro to include the sectors of science and that address all the key issues raised by Gold members wrongdoing or dangers at work. The aim Partners and 1,700 employees. For Happold Engineers Limited. technology, air and rail and education. climate change. American Institute of Architects of the Speak Up Policy is to enable the over 40 years BuroHappold, has been (AIA) 2030 Challenge reporting, investigating and remedying building a reputation for delivering Happold Limited LLP has approximately 7. Supply chain 9. External initiatives Confederation of British Industry any wrongdoing. creative, value-led building and city 60 members and is incorporated under (CBI) solutions for an ever changing world. The and and registered BuroHappold’s supply chain primarily During the year 2018, the BuroHappold 12. Governance structure principal activity of the BuroHappold at Companies House (LLP Number: comprises professional infrastructure group contributed £250,000 (2017: London First group is that of consulting engineers OC331879). The LLP is controlled consultancy providers, acting as sub- £160,000) to the Happold Foundation, Chartered Institute of Building BuroHappold is governed by a statutory providing professional, integrated design by its members as delegated to the consultants. The types of infrastructure a UK registered charity. The Happold Services Engineers Board at holding company level which and advisory services to clients that sub-consultants BuroHappold typically management team, and as such there Foundation is a charity registered for Institution of Structural Engineers includes two non-executive directors include the property and construction is no one controlling party. In terms engages include: architects; surveyors; the promotion of education, research and is advised by an audit committee Institution of Civil Engineers sectors, city administrations and of identifying Persons of Significant geotechnical or environmental and training in the fields applicable to and Partner committee. Management campus portfolio owners. The principal Control (PSC) currently none of the consultants; IT consultants; economic/ the construction industry, engineering, of the practice is carried out by the activity of Happold LLP is providing members of Happold LLP hold more financial consultants; acoustic; lighting design, technology and architecture. 11 Ethics and integrity Global Executive. The Global Executive is management services to companies in or security consultants as well as BIM than 5% of the shares in Happold LLP BuroHappold issued a new Code of advised by a Global Strategy Group. the BuroHappold group. suppliers. As a professional service The Happold Foundation is the primary and therefore no member qualifies as Conduct in May 2019, setting out the organisation the risks associated with route for financially supporting projects a PSC. standards of behaviour expected of slavery and human trafficking are with a social responsibility. BuroHappold 3. Registered address global employees which they are all objectively low. also supports other initiatives such required to electronically sign. The Camden Mill, Lower Bristol Road, as engineering programmes through purpose of the Code of Conduct is to Bath BA2 3DQ, UK. BuroHappold also directly engages visiting lecturers and visiting professors clarify the standards of individual and suppliers of services for our offices, in most of our operational locations as collective behaviour that our employees 4. Location of operations such as facilities management, travel, well as ground breaking research and are required to adhere to across all our insurance and office equipment. sponsoring public lectures. BuroHappold We operate in 23 global locations and global locations. This is supported by runs a global Share Our Skills internally this is delivered via six geographic other related standalone policies such Programme where we provide free input business units: United Kingdom; Europe; as Anti-Bribery, Anti-Fraud, Speak Up into good socially beneficial projects. United States, Middle East, India and Asia. (Whistleblowing), Diversity and Equal A seventh business unit, ‘Cities’, spans Opportunities, Health and Safety, multiple locations and consists of Quality Policy, Gifts and Hospitality 7 specialisms – bridges, consulting, Policy and Modern Slavery which energy consultancy, environment, considers the ethics that underpin our infrastructure, transport and water. relationships with suppliers and external organisations. 30 31 GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY REPORT BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING

GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE

GRI 100 Universal Standards BuroHappold Global Sustainability Report 15. Goals and standards alignment GRI 101 Foundation Discription and Disclosures GRI 102 General Disclosures Discription and Disclosures GRI 103 Management Approach Discription and Disclosures

GRI 200 Economic

GRI 201 Economic Performance Economic Performance GRI 202 Market Presence Discription and Disclosures (and Annual Report) GRI 203 Indirect Economic Impacts Community Involvement GRI 204 Procurement Practices Fair Practice and Procurement GRI 205 Anti-corruption Fair Practice and Procurement GRI 206 Anti-competitive Behaviour Fair Practice and Procurement

These tables describe how BuroHappold is addressing the named standards in GRI 300 Environmental principle in this report although we acknowledge that in many cases we are not yet addressing the specific requirements of each standard. GRI 301 Materials Materials and Waste GRI 302 Energy Energy and Carbon GRI 303 Water and Effluents Clean Water and Sanitation GRI 304 Biodiversity Biodiversity GRI 305 Emissions Energy and Carbon UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS Travel and Transport GRI 306 Effluents and Waste Materials and Waste GRI 307 Environmental Compliance Fair Practice and Procurement Goals BuroHappold Global Sustainability Report GRI 308 Supplier Environmental Assessment Fair Practice and Procurement

SDG1 No Poverty Inclusivity, Equality and Diversity GRI 400 Social SDG2 End Hunger Community Involvement GRI 401 Employment Fair Practice and Procurement SDG3 Good Health and Wellbeing Health and Wellbeing GRI 402 Labour Management Relations Inclusivity, Equality and Diversity SDG4 Quality Education Training and Education GRI 403 Occupational Health and Safety Health and Wellbeing SDG5 Gender Equality Inclusivity, Equality and Diversity GRI 404 Training and Education Training and Education SDG6. Clean Water and Sanitation Clean water and sanitation GRI 405 Diversity and Equal Opportunity Inclusivity, Equality and Diversity SDG7 Affordable and Clean Energy Energy and Carbon GRI 406 Non-discrimination Inclusivity, Equality and Diversity SDG8 Decent Work and Economic Growth Fair Practice and Procurement GRI 407 Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining Not addressed – not applicable SDG9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure Energy and Carbon GRI 408 Child Labour Fair Practice and Procurement SDG10 Reduced Inequalities Inclusivity, Equality and Diversity GRI 409 Forced or compulsory Labour Fair Practice and Procurement SDG11 Sustainable Cities and Communities Health and Wellbeing GRI 410 Security Practices Not addressed – not applicable Community Involvement GRI 411 Rights of Indigenous Peoples Community Involvement Materials and Waste GRI 412 Human Rights Assessment Not addressed - not applicable Travel and Transport GRI 413 Local Communities Community Involvement SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production Materials and Waste GRI 414 Supplier Social Assessment Not addressed – not applicable SDG13 Climate Action Climate Action GRI 415 Public Policy Not addressed – not applicable SDG14 Life Below Water Biodiversity GRI 416 Customer Health and Safety Health and Wellbeing SDG15 Life on Land Biodiversity GRI 417 Marketing and Labelling Not addressed – not applicable SDG16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions Fair Practice and Procurement GRI 418 Customer Privacy Not addressed – not applicable Community Involvement GRI 419 Socioeconomic Compliance Not addressed – not applicable SDG17 Partnerships for the Goals Community Involvement

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As our principles set out, we value human wellbeing, we embrace mutual responsibility and we understand that a sustainable future is intrinsic to the economic and social impact of our work.

Neil Squibbs CEO

34 Tim La Touche Duncan Price Global Quality Environment Manager Director of Sustainability [email protected] [email protected]

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