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| Balfour Beatty turns to next generation to take them to next level  International infrastructure group Balfour Beatty revealed that it is turning to the next generation to help transform its performance in areas such as recycling, carbon emissions and diversity into sector leading.In a ground-breaking new approach, the group has appointed a 'Next Generation Stakeholder Panel' of eight under 25 year olds including representatives from the Prince's Trust, National Apprenticeships Service, the University of Edinburgh and the UK Youth Council, to independently scrutinise and steer its activities on sustainability. The news comes as Balfour Beatty publishes its Annual Sustainability Report detailing its performance on resource efficiency, community engagement and governance. The report shows that approaches such as colour coding waste, computer tracking and state of the art 3-D computer modelling has helped reduce the amount of construction waste they send to landfill in the UK by almost 80% in four years. Highlights of Balfour Beatty's Sustainability 2012 Report include: Achieving a 50% reduction in waste to landfill since 2010 Reducing UK CO2 emissions between 2010 and 2012 by 33% Reducing direct UK water consumption by 22% Constructing the world's largest solar powered community of nearly 4,500 military homes at Fort Bliss in the US In the US, rolling out a smart grid programme to 20,000 family members in 5,000 military homes to help them make better decisions about energy consumption Helping London 2012 to be the greenest Games yet, with more than half of the materials used to build the aquatics centre coming from recycled sources. This saved the project more than £1 million Building Hong Kong's first Zero Carbon Building The value of green buildings and renewable energy projects completed increased 27% to £3.3 billion between 2011 and 2012 Installing new LED lighting in 170 Marks & Spencer stores will help them reduce their non-merchandise lighting bills by 60% Raising more than £3 million for charity in the UK over past three years. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Construction News :: home page |