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| Balfour Beatty leads sustainability drive for the construction industry Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, joined eleven other major UK contractors this week to demonstrate to over 170 supply chain businesses in the North West the importance of embedding sustainable practices into their business models. The Supply Chain Sustainability School event held at Manchester Town Hall yesterday was addressed by Chris Whitehead, Balfour Beatty's Group Head of Sustainability, key UK customers, the Highways Agency and United Utilities, as well as supply chain partners, Reconomy. The purpose of the Balfour Beatty-led event was to recruit new supply chain members to the School, and help increase their skills and competence, in order to drive sustainability forward in the construction industry. Balfour Beatty co-funds the School which was set up in 2012 and is run through Action Sustainability, to raise awareness of areas ranging from carbon and waste reduction, proactive planning and the need to implement intelligent building methods such as Building Information Modelling (compulsory on all publicly funded projects by 2015). It also aims to assist in the recruitment of the next generation of young people to the construction industry through apprenticeships and training. Within the first nine months of the school's opening over 2000 professionals from more than 1300 companies have benefitted from the initiative. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Construction News :: home page |