Ayesa UK, Ireland & Middle East CSR

Corporate Social Responsibility

Committed to people, planet and profit and ESG Goals

CSR POLICY

Ayesa is a connected network of 12000 professionals who strive to provide innovative engineering design solutions and project management for clients in Ireland, the UK and the Middle East. This policy provides the framework for our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by focusing on assurances and initiatives within the following three pillars - people, planet and profit. Our collective responsibility is to make positive impacts to our people, our planet and our business.

PEOPLE: Ayesa is committed to providing workplaces where the health and wellbeing of our employees is a priority and where we encourage our employees to add social value in their communities.

1. Health & Safety: We put safety at the forefront of everything we do. We are committed to the highest levels of occupational health and safety throughout our work, protecting our workforce, subcontractors, suppliers and stakeholders.

2. Community Impact: We proactively minimise the impact our project work has on the environment while seeking to make positive contributions to the local community including employment, STEM, STEPS and social valueadd.

3. Learning & Development: We prioritise a 70:20:10 learning culture to ensure our employees are at the forefront of their industry and deliver innovation and sustainable solutions across our project portfolio.

4. Equality and Diversity and Inclusion: We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment where people of all abilities and disabilities are welcome, feel valued and respected regardless of gender, marital status, age, race, colour, ethnic/ national origin, religion, sexuality or disability. Embracing the diversity which people have to offer helps us all grow and play a positive role in connecting us as partners within the practice and within the communities to which we contribute.

5. Volunteering and supporting the local communities and economies where we work: Encouraging staff to participate in CSR projects where we can make an impact and a difference.

6. Wellbeing and Work Life Balance: We prioritise initiatives to ensure the mental and physical wellbeing of our staff with workplaces initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, workplace recognition platform, bike to work and other wellness drives.

PLANET: We are committed to our responsibility to the planet and how our work can effect future generations.

1. Energy: We will improve our energy efficiency and reduce the Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from our project design work as much as possible.

2. Natural Resources: We believe in reducing the supply of natural resources used in our solutions. We collaborate with our clients and supply chain to use alternative materials and methods to reuse and conserve natural resources, raw materials, energy, transport and water. We also promote measures to reuse and minimise embodied carbon and

waste.

3. Environment: We strive to minimise the negative environmental impacts and maximise the positive impacts in our work. Working as our clients’ partner, we assist with research to understand, manage and restore environmental impacts. Our inhouse environmental experts are embedded in project teams wherever our clients need them.

4. Innovation: Our engineers and consultants strive to create sustainable solutions that balance economic, environmental and social issues.

5. Carbon Reduction Plan: We have committed to measure, report and communicate our carbon emissions performance with external validation of our carbon emissions data, applying carbon reduction initiatives across our 14 offices and within our business strategy, investing in low carbon initiatives to progress towards net-zero by 2040.

PROFIT: Ayesa operates its business responsibly and sustainably

1. Our Pillars/Culture: We strive to provide the highest quality in our services and operations guided by the ‘The Ayesa Way’. These pillars are at the heart of our work: technical excellence, commitment to clients and investing in our people. Management and staff are accountable for implementing and embedding these pillars throughout our business in all operating jurisdictions.

2. Business Integrity: Our company values and our culture encourage our staff to carefully and responsibly consider the interests of all stakeholders and to conduct activities in an ethical, professional and legal manner. These values are: Respect, Integrity, Commitment and Excellence.

3. Quality Strategy: We achieve quality by continually improving our management systems, complying with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and applicable regulations, setting meaningful objectives for our company and employees, people development and training, performance monitoring as set out in our Integrated Management System.

4. Supply Chain: We work with our subcontractors and suppliers to ensure they operate in a safe and environmentally responsible way. Together with our preferred partners, we promote and develop sustainable solutions and best practices across the sector.

5. Prosperity: We aim to create value for our employees and society by operating profitably and sustainably and reducing our carbon footprint.

6. Client: We strive to satisfy our clients in delivering socially, ethically and environmentally responsible projects safely and on time.

JOHN BYRNE COUNTRY MANAGER

VISION = “To be recognised by our staff, clients and peers as an experienced engineering services company, delivering high quality, timely services, technical expertise and innovative solutions tailored for clients. We will strive to create a great place to work where wellbeing is a priority and where people can express their talents, grow and develop.”

EXCELLENCE VALUES = PROMISE =

SOCIAL GOALS

Health & Safety

Community Impact

SOLUTIONS-DRIVEN CLIENT-FOCUSED INNOVATIVE

RESPECT INTEGRITY COMMITMENT

PLANET

ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS

Energy

Natural Resources

Learning & Development (L&D)

Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Volunteering

Wellbeing

PROFIT

Environment

Innovation

Carbon Reduction Plan

GOVERNANCE GOALS

Culture/Our Pillars

Business Integrity

Quality Strategy

Supply Chain

Prosperity

Client

“Delivering positive impacts based on people, planet and profit is central to our CSR policy. Key initiatives and activities and the appropriate UN SDGs and ESGs have been linked to each pillar. Annually we measure and report on these goals.”

CSR INITIATIVES

PEOPLE

OUR GREATEST ASSET TO PROVIDE A WORKPLACE THAT IMPROVES THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND ADDS SOCIAL VALUE TO COMMUNITIES

• Health and Safety.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) training for all staff from the Irish Centre for Diversity.

Health & Wellbeing:

- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

- Bike to Work Scheme

- Wellbeing events/Initiatives

- Employee Recognition and Reward Platform

Talent Development/Investment:

- L & D Programme 70:20:10

- New Manager Programme

- Competency Framework for Employees

Supporting the communities and local economies where we work and encouraging CSR projects where we can make a difference:

- Operation Smile: Article 25 Morocco

- Conservation National Trust of Georgia

- STEM /STEPS Programmes

- Local charities particular to each office

- Food banks at St. Helens/Leeds offices

- Local coffee mornings at all our offices

- BAM Ritchies Lighthouse Club Charity Day

- Annual Movember men’s health awareness month with fundraising & Mental health

PLANET

OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FUTURE BUSINESS WITH A CONSCIENCE

OUR WORK AND HOW IT AFFECTS FUTURE GENERATIONS

We strive to provide engineering design and project management services that focus on sustainability, resilience and reduce the carbon footprint: maximising the positive benefits and minimising negative impacts.

• Ayesa Carbon Reduction Plan implemented across all our global offices.

• Inhouse Environment & Sustainability Team to drive appropriate initatives and measurement.

We strive to include environmental governance and sustainable goals as much as possible across our projects and sectors. We measure this in our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) register.

Climate Pledge and Proactive Memberships:

- ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on energy, sustainability and climate change,

- Wind Energy Ireland (WEI),

- Signed up to the Climate Pledge through BRE’S CEEQUAL Environmental Award Scheme.

APPROACHING OUR BUSINESS MATTERS RESPONSIBLY AND SUSTAINABLY

• Our 3 pillars in ‘The Ayesa Way’ pillars provide a roadmap for staff to perform, collaborate and build relationships and partnerships. Our competency framework is based upon these pillars to review staff performance.

• Our In-House Quality Team to implement, supervise and monitor all systems and processes.

- Delivering projects safely and to quality standards, auditing and constantly improving our procedures and processes.

- Right First Time Zero Defects: Our in-house technical expertise ensure that all of our sub-contractors work to our high standards.

Building local resilience in our supply chain - cultivating strong working relationships with carefully selected partners across all of our regions.

• Prosperity: Through the Deloitte Best Managed Company Programme our consulting business is scored against the following pillars:

1) strategy

2) capability and innovation

3) culture & commitment and

4) governance and financial performance.

• Client-focused so that we deliver social value to the local communities where the projects are located.

ALIGNED UN SDGS (UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABILITY GOALS)

THE DELIVERY OF A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE CENTRE IN MARRAKECH

Ayesa has partnered with Article 25, a not-for-profit organisation in London, driven by the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that everyone has the right to adequate, dignified shelter. Their corporate mission is to provide a world where all communities can access better housing, safe school buildings and effective clinics and hospitals.

Ayesa will deliver the design of a new multidisciplinary care centre for Operation Smile Morocco in Marrakech. Operation Smile - a global charity of volunteer surgeons and clinical staff – runs several hundred reconstructive surgery missions in more than 30 countries every year. In Morocco, there are a limited number of facilities to treat cleft palates, and so families are forced to travel long distances to receive the necessary treatment for their children.

As a pro-bono project, our London team have carried out the consulting design work in their own free time, leading the project across multi-disciplines, including seismic structural, civil and geotechnical/ environmental work.

“It is our collective responsibility to deliver positive social, economic, and environmental impacts through our work and through our people.”