Sustainability Report | 2016-2017 by cundallglobal

Sustainability report 2016-2017

Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong ÂŠ Richard Glover/Matt Estherby

Cundall is to be commended for taking a real leadership position on the sustainability agenda, continuing to place One Planet Living at the heart of its approach. By addressing four cornerstones of impact: Industry Leadership, Projects, Workplaces and Homes and Communities, Cundall is set to make great progress in embedding sustainability into its business purpose.

Carbon emissions, energy and building performance stood out as the most important environmental issues, whilst volunteering and upskilling staff are the most important socially. This report shows good progress in these important areas. With strong leadership from Global Head of Sustainability Amie Shuttleworth, reporting and monitoring have continued to improve.

In 2016, we supported Cundall with its materiality assessment, which highlighted priority issues and gaps in reporting and monitoring. Issues considered highest priority for Cundall were a mix of environmental, social and financial.

We look forward to seeing the progress of Cundallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sustainability strategy.

Sue Riddlestone OBE, CEO & Co-founder Bioregional

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The Crown Estate ÂŠ Andrew Hendry

INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP

In this report you can find the sustainability initiatives we have implemented and our performance data against our targets, split into our four cornerstones of impact: Industry Leadership, Our Projects, Our Workplaces and Homes and Communities.

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We use the One Planet living principles to ensure we take a holistic view and assessment of our business impacts and the projects we deliver for our clients. Throughout you will see which principles the case study relates to using the logos below.

OUR PROJECTS

OUR WORPLACE

OUR HOMES AND COMMUNITY

Foreword We are very excited about the progress we have made over the past year, as we have been working hard to embed sustainability into everything we do.

We have been through a process to update our mission, vision and values as we have grown substantially as a business in recent years and wanted our people to be the authors of our current and future strategy. This was a fantastic process to go through, with all staff in all offices globally given the chance to take part in workshops, discussing who we want to be and what impact we want to have.

Our mission as a business is to :

The culmination of this stakeholder engagement process has allowed us to embed sustainability within our core business strategy – therefore making it part of our very purpose.

This helps to continue to shape the culture of our business and is the platform for which new initiatives, innovation and collaboration is founded upon.

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Provide great opportunities for our people Create fantastic built environments Positively impact our communities With the vision of being agents of change for a sustainable world, and, construction industry thought leaders.

This year, we have instigated a number of workstreams to ensure that sustainability is embedded into everything we do, as well as commenced regular reporting against our KPIs. This is now starting to bear fruit, as we can track our success and see where we need to improve quickly and easily. We know we still have several areas where we can do better, and we hope our refreshed approach will allow for swift action to be taken. In addition, we conducted a materiality review in order to update our sustainability strategy, this was a good time to do it as it was five years since the first strategy was released, and our business has expanded both in numbers of employees but also in nature and geographical location.

This process has allowed us to identify six key impact areas which we will focus on in the coming years – particularly through the lens of the projects we deliver for clients and industry innovation and collaboration as these are where we can have maximum positive impact. We will continue to ensure we practice what we preach and use our offices as living labs, meaning we have engineers that can give practical, tried and tested advice to our clients, as well as contributing positively to our communities through pro-bono work and helping to inspire the next generation of professionals into our industry. Tomás Neeson, Managing Partner

2016/17 Key achievements

5910 hours

new Community projects undertaken

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of sustainable design training provided

45%

reduced paper consumption in the last year by introducing follow on printing in many of our offices

39%

reduced business energy use intensity due to more efficient lighting and agile working applied in more offices

50%

reduced business emissions per person since 2012

Photo by Scott Webb from Pexels

Industry Leadership We believe in sharing knowledge and being agents of change, we operate in an industry that openly acknowledges that it needs to be less disjointed, it is a core part of our business strategy to help our industry innovate collaboratively. Tomás Neeson, Ecobuild, March 2017

Cundall has continued to share its knowledge both at its own events as well as industry conferences; our wide spectrum of industry knowledge has seen us present at over 100 events in 24 different global locations this year. Our presence at Ecobuild in the UK saw Managing Partner, Tomás Neeson, share our journey in creating a net positive business, whilst on the other side of the world, Cundall spoke at all four of the Green Building Council of Australia’s Green Building days. Cundall also hosted a number of its own knowledge sharing events, a highlight being regular tours of our London Office. As the first in Europe to achieve a WELL standard, people from across the industry have visited to see how design can influence the health and wellbeing of their occupants. Organisations such as British Council of Office (BCO), RIBA, Sustainability Report 2016-17 Cundall

RICS, CIBSE and New London Architecture, have all organised tours for their members learning the value of designing for health and wellbeing. World Green Building Week also continues to be a key event in Cundall’s diary, each year more of our Cundall offices welcome the industry to share their knowledge. This year with 17 offices hosting events, we attracted over 500 attendees. Our teams work hard on these and all of our events not only share knowledge but practice what we preach, sourcing local caterers, often social enterprises and keeping to our target of at least 50% vegetarian food. In fact, our Hong Kong and Australian offices have implemented 100% vegetarian for all their events following excellent feedback from attendees.

We also regularly contribute to technical papers, for example Alan Fogarty, our London Sustainability Partner, contributed to the Health and Wellbeing in Homes report produced by the UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC). Simon Wyatt, co-authored a Briefing Note by British Council for Offices on the WELL Building Standard®. In addition “A healthy light style – the biological impact of light” by Andrew Bissell, Lighting Director was also published in the CIBSE Journal.

Cundall acknowledges that to go far we must share and collaborate with the industry, we have done this by not only sharing our knowledge with peers but working with industry bodies to influence changes in legislation, design guideline and rating tools. Throughout our business, from graduate to partner level, Cundall employees sit on committees and boards for various industry organisations. For example, Mechanical Engineer, Gemma Stronach, was the Vice Chair of the CIBSE YEN North East where she not only helped shape various initiatives for young engineers that improves their skills, she also gained valuable experience herself contributing to a committee.

Industry Leadership IEQube Cundall has developed a low-cost, low-energy, multi-sensor (lux, temperature, humidity, VOCs, CO2, PM10) monitoring network, using cheap, commonly available electronic components; well-supported ‘cloud’ database; and real-time dashboard display. This is part of our ongoing Research and Technical Development programme, where health and wellbeing is one of our key focus areas. Cundall IEQube

Meanwhile, David Clark, Sydney Sustainability Partner, has sat on the Green Building Council’s Green Star steering committee, where he has collaborated with others in the industry to create the next version of Green Star which will again push the Australian construction industry to be leaders in Sustainability. Lee LestonJones, Manchester Structural Partner, was appointed as a member of the Structural Futures Committee (SFC) for the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE). Amie Shuttleworth, Sustainability Director, spoke at the IStructE annual Sustainability Conference in London on the topic of the circular economy and embodied impacts– as embedding sustainability into structural engineering is an acknowledged area for improvement within the industry.

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We also expanded our involvement with Green Building Councils’ across the world, becoming a member of the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) and upgrading our UK GBC membership to Gold, with Simon Wyatt, Partner, now sitting on their membership committee.

The IEQube is one of the great successes from this programme, it was a research and development project that has been used to further Cundall’s understanding of health and wellbeing in buildings, and we showcased it in action at the World Sustainable Built Environment Conference in Hong Kong this year.

Our Research and Technical Development strategy has seen an increase in staff applying for funding and resources, with a number of new projects commencing. This strategy allows our staff to spend time away from fee earning projects to develop their ideas in line with our Sustainability and Business priorities.

Edwin Wealend and Amie Shuttleworth explaining our research at the World Sustainable Built Environment Conference

Looking forward, Cundall is focussing its Research & Development and Partnerships on our six key areas of impact: Zero Carbon Energy, Climate Adaptation, Resource Efficiency, Equity and Ethics, Health and Wellbeing and Materials and Supply Chain. With some already very exciting research being commissioned into climate adaptation and the impact of different climate change scenarios on both the built environment, but also on the fundamentals of design codes. We will be sharing all of our knowledge with the industry through both briefing sessions and technical papers. This year we are additionally focussing on our strategic partnerships – enabling us to work collaboratively with others in order to continuously push the industry and ourselves forward towards more sustainable solutions.

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World Green Building Week, Global For the fifth year running, Cundall took part in World Green Building Week (WGBW) across our office network. The subject was Healthy Buildings in Healthy Cities where the speakers discussed how health and wellbeing and environmental engineering go hand in hand to create sustainable buildings. Events were held in 13 different cities where 500 people attended.

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One Carter Lane, London, UK Our own London office was the first project in the UK and Europe to achieve WELL Certification through the WELL Building Standard™ (WELL) and only the seventh to have been through the process in the World. Cundall now uses this as a live case study, welcoming numerous industry tours and using it as a R&D Laboratory.

Designing Tomorrow’s Buildings Today, Hong Kong Amie Shuttleworth, Cundall’s Director of Sustainability and guest speaker Ken Shuttleworth, Founding Director of Make Architects, shared their views on designing buildings that are appropriate for now as well as for the long term, a balance which has been historically difficult to achieve. Amie argued that costing externalities trough natural capital accounting was vital to this process.

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Supply Chain Sustainability School, Australia Cundall signed up as Australia’s first Technical Partner. This collaboration sees Cundall upskill contractors in understanding the environmental, economic and social impacts of their supply chains, helping them make informed decisions to reduce these impacts.

Our Projects We want all our engineers and consultants thinking about and delivering sustainable solutions on every single project we work on.

Hong Kong Children’s Hospital, first hospital to achieve BEAM Plus Platinum rating in Hong Kong

Cundall has invested in our engineers by providing training on all aspects of sustainable design, meaning we can add value to every project no matter what discipline we are appointed.

We also celebrated a number of our projects achieving industry firsts, where a project has pushed the boundaries to achieve beyond the current legislation. Our own London office is included in this list, as the first WELL Standard project in Europe. Shout Ridge, a residential development in Sydney which was the first residential project to receive a 6 Star Green Star - Multi Unit Residential Design v1 Certified Rating. Hong Kong Children’s Hospital is the first Hospital in Hong Kong to achieve BEAM Platinum rating.

Our Cundall Diploma has been the key to this strategy. What we believe is an industry first, Cundall launched a unique in-house sustainable design training programme, which is open to all staff regardless of discipline or level. It is intended to upskill and empower our people in sustainable design, giving participants the technical knowledge and the confidence to challenge conventional thinking and to continue to drive Cundall’s success in improving the built environment. Sustainability Report 2016-17 Cundall

The CPD Standards Office have granted Formal CPD status in recognition of the high standard of content and the review processes 19 %

157

5,910 CPD HOURS

PARTICIPANTS SIGNED UP IN THE FIRST YEAR

The Diploma was presented the award for ‘People Development’ at the Constructing Excellence in the North East Awards 2017.

We delivered 1,277 projects in the last year globally as this is where we can make the biggest long-term impact.

Our Projects Cundallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experienced and committed team are known throughout the industry for pushing the sustainable building envelope, and deserve applause for reaching this momentous milestone. UKGBC Head Office, UK ÂŠ Barr Gazetas

UK Green Building Council Existing systems were reused and enhanced, conserving the embodied energy, whilst improving the environmental and energy performance. The project achieved the lowest measured fit-out carbon footprint in UK and will reduce energy used per employee for lighting and small power by 40% by 2020 compared to a 2013 baseline. Hong Kong Science Park, Phase Three has continued to be recognised for its sustainable design, winning the Grand Award in Hong Kong Non-Residential (New Building) category at the Quality Building Awards 2016, this win took the number of award wins to double figures. Meanwhile, The Malings, in Newcastle, UK was named Supreme Winner at the Housing Design Awards and Telehouse Sustainability Report 2016-17 Cundall

North Two has won the Data Centre Solutions (DCS) Award 2017 for Data Centre Energy Efficiency Project of the Year. Our Australian business celebrated being the first consultancy to have 100 of their projects Green Star Certified. Romiley Madew DHCEO Green Building Council of Australia presented Cundall with a certificate to mark the occasion. The impact we can have on our projects will continue to be our priority, looking forward to our next financial year, Cundall is developing a tool where we will provide ideas on how a project can be more sustainable using the ten One Planet principles. This is something that will be offered on all projects no matter what engineering discipline Cundall has been appointed to do.

In the coming years we are going to create a work stream looking at aid funded projects, so we can use our skills to deliver projects that globally have a positive impact, as well as developing an ethical bid / no bid process which will ensure that as we grow as a business we continue to only work on projects which are in line with our business mission, vision and values. Cundall is also looking to expand its ISO14001 certification beyond its UK offices. We currently have global operational procedures which adhere to the ISO14001 standard and plan for 95% of our offices to be certified by 2025.

Our Projects: Highlights Maggie’s Centre

Hong Kong Children’s Hospital

Manchester, UK

Maggie’s Centre provides help to anyone who has been affected by cancer. Cundall’s lighting designers supported the home from home design, delivering a low level of warm comfortable light utilising furniture integrated lighting elements and minimal styling. The controls are simple with just ‘overcast’, ‘sunny’ and ‘off’ push button options.

Hong Kong, SAR

The first Hospital in Hong Kong to achieve BEAM Plus rating. Cundall played a significant role in the design stage by introducing many cutting edge technologies as well as passive design solutions, that will not only maximise environmental performance but also improve the patient’s experience and hopeful aid recovery periods.

Wollongong Central NSW, Australia

Awarded 5 Star Green Star – Retail Centre v1 As-Built certified rating, which is the first and highest As-Built rating for a retail centre in Australia. The mall space utilises a passive mode of conditioning where spill air from the stores are the only source of cooling, enabling the mall to be opened when ambient conditions suit, providing an open flow to the retail environment. This solution was only realised following considerable comfort modelling by Cundall including CFD to ensure sufficient comfort and operability could be achieved. © Richard Glover

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Ulster Hospital, Northern Ireland

The BREEAM assessment for the project, target rating is “Excellent”. A servicing strategy combining a high performance sealed envelope utilising chilled beams has been adopted throughout patient areas, allowing for good year round internal conditions and control, addressing concerns of infection control and also minimising pollution risk during the phased construction / demolition of the site. © Donal McCann

Our Projects: Highlights Peel Park Quarter Manchester, UK

A key challenge was to protect the end-users from asbestos impacted soil. Cundall’s untraditional approach significantly reduced the need to expose and remove the contaminated soil and saved some 5000m3 of earthworks in the process. Material, health and cost savings shared by all involved.

Rainton Bridge Car Park Durham, UK

A non-traditional surface drainage system was designed (for over 1 ha) that is entirely permeable with any offsite flows matching the natural flow rate of the terrain. All excavation was used in-situ saving time, money and embodied carbon associated with material consumption. Using a completely Sustainable Drainage and Earthwork System saved more than 10% of the total construction value over using traditional methods.

Betteshanger Visitor Centre

Google, 6 Pancras Square

Starting from Passivhaus design principles, the building has optimised glazing orientation and sizes to take advantage of beneficial solar gain in winter while using solar shading devices to limit gain in summer. The majority of the spaces are naturally ventilated utilising the excellent local air quality. The only mechanically ventilated spaces are the changing areas, toilets, kitchen and museum areas where the heat from the exhaust air will be recovered.

Google utilised their own healthy materials tools to vet and approve general finishes and materials used within the building. In order to ensure all components of the product do not contain harmful toxins of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), we undertook a number of MEP materials and products throughout the assessment process.

Deal, UK

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London, UK

Our Workplace To practice what we preach and to be a net positive business, we engage and enthuse our staff about environmental and social sustainability and report transparently on our performance.

With the appointment of our Director of Sustainability, Amie Shuttleworth, bringing a new focus upon our sustainability strategy, a major piece of work for her was to gain feedback from staff around the world on how as a business we can improve our performance. Following workshops with our 21 offices, it was clear that staff were keen to contribute to the strategy, however were not sure how their offices were performing and what they could do to improve this. Working alongside the UK Green Building Council, Cundall developed an interactive induction, that explained why sustainability is important to Cundall and how everyone can contribute. It includes case studies from around the world to inspire and explain the various targets we as a business have set. This was shown to all staff within the business and is now integrated with all new staff inductions. Sustainability Report 2016-17 Cundall

A monthly dashboard was created which is displayed in every office as well as available online to all staff. This was designed to educate, benchmark and inspire. Each month a One Planet Principle was chosen and defined to readers. Statistics are shown for each office to see how they are performing against others around the business. This is followed with case studies of how initiatives have improved performance.

Cundall has reformed SusTeams in all of its offices, with regular meetings to discuss how the office can improve their efficiencies, engage staff and review the data collated to identify areas of improvement. Initiatives include our Manchester office becoming a member of the Mobike bike sharing scheme, with helmets provided to staff. This has encouraged staff to cycle to meetings that are near the office reducing the use of taxis.

Elsewhere, our Birmingham team volunteered at nearby Kingsbury Water country park to create a new meadow and wildlife area and our Doha team donated 10 big â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christmas Boxes for Migrant Workers,â&#x20AC;? which were prepared with 24 daily use items and handed over to a camp with workers from Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Our Workplace

Cundall London Office © Dirk Lindner

Collating data across 21 offices has been a challenge in the past. With our targets set, we collate in excess of 30 indicators from every office, which previously was done on an annual basis. We therefore developed a monthly data collection spreadsheet which each office completes to capture the data on a regular basis. This ensures that the data is being collated in a timely manner, anomalies are identified through the process which are rectified through training of the collator or adjusting the measurement unit to match other offices. The monthly dashboards are also used as a motivational tool for the collators to see how their work is being used to make changes in the business.

Cundall Hong Kong Office

Adelaide Office Their new office has excellent access to public transport, abundant natural daylight, bicycle storage and end of trip facilities. A particularly unique lighting design has been installed which is highly controllable and provides light exactly where it is needed at less than 3W/m².

ONE PLANET DASHBOARD

JUNE 2017

JULY 2017

PRINCIPLE OF THE MONTH

PRINCIPLE IN NUMBERS

CULTURE AND COMMUNITY CUNDALL KEY TARGET

PRINCIPLE OF THE MONTH

IN OUR OFFICES

ON OUR PROJECTS

On refurbished building projects, be sensitive to any heritage features and seek to preserve wherever possible.

Partner with a local charity and raise funds.

Participate in local community engagement processes (where appropriate) and seek to address key concerns.

Engage with local artists and display their work in your office.

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Belfast

Birmingham

Brisbane

Provide facilities such as showers and bike racks so that people can cycle/run to work.

Bucharest

Doha

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Select office locations with good public transport nearby.

Dubai

Dublin

Encourage car sharing.

Edinburgh

EIGHT Local artworks

installed in our offices

7,300 GBP

MONEY RAISED GLOBALLY

Use skype video conferencing to avoid business travel wherever possible.

Hong Kong

London

ON OUR PROJECTS Madrid

Provide showers and end of trip facilities to encourage cycling/running/walking to work.

Manchester Melbourne

BIRMINGHAM

EDINBURGH

MANCHESTER

NEWCASTLE

Volunteered at nearby Kingsbury Water Park country park in July and September, to create a new meadow and wildlife area.

James Spears and John McLoughlin are donating their time to design an open space community area at a local village named Carlops.

Ashleigh Dolan volunteered to help build a community pub, designing and making the light fittings.

Staff raised enough money to fill 18 shoe boxes which were sent to children around the world.

Design to create safe and easy access to public transport wherever possible. Prioritise low carbon private vehicles if car parking provided (e.g. electric car chargers and small cars).

Newcastle Perth

Shanghai Singapore

LONDON Undertook three projects for homeless charity CRASH.

Sydney

Warsaw

HONG KONG

walking

Corporate sponsors of Lighthouse Club, Hong Kong to provide charitable assistance to those in need within the construction industry and their dependants.

car/taxi

motorbike

train

Participated in the charity run event, Warsaw Business Run. ADELAIDE BUCHAREST Donated books, clothes and food to ASA (Asociatia Social Activ) who help rural families.

Stella Matulessya volunteers on a regular basis for Orange Sky Laundry, a free mobile laundry service for the homeless. MELBOURNE The Melbourne office collected food for their local food bank while celebrating Taste of Harmony Day.

MADRID Raul Lopez regularly donates blood.

DOHA The Doha office donated 10 big “Christmas Boxes for Migrant Workers,” which were prepared with 24 daily use items and handed over to a camp with workers from Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

SYDNEY Corporate partner of the Art Gallery of NSW, with funds used to purchase art for the gallery.

bus

bicycle

tram

AVERAGE GLOBAL TRAVEL MODES (BY KM)

31% CAR/TAXI

WARSAW

Employees have applied their skills to play music at a hospice and at a SOSAD charity event.

Adelaide

ENCOURAGE WALKING AND CYCLING AND LOW OR ZERO CARBON MODES OF TRANSPORT

Volunteer with local community groups.

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CUNDALL KEY TARGET

BUILD ON LOCAL CULTURAL HERITAGE TO NURTURE A CULTURE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND COMMUNITY

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PRINCIPLE IN NUMBERS

SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT

MAN-HOURS Tree planting and other local activities

MANCHESTER AND MOBIKES

TRANSPORT DISCIPLINE

The Manchester office is encouraging its staff to keep fit and reduce inner-city congestion by covering the hire cost of all work-related cycle journeys using the newly launched Mobike bicycle share platform.

Cundall’s Transportation team are specialists in travel behaviour, especially in the use and promotion of sustainable modes of transport such as walking, cycling and public transport. In particular their work focuses on encouraging people to walk and cycle instead of driving through the provision of infrastructure and other hearts and minds measures.

With employees working on various projects throughout the city, Manchester has asked staff to consider using the Mobike scheme for short-distance business travel and will not only cover journey cost but also supply cycle helmets freely available in the office reception. Our involvement is not only helping us achieve our One Planet Commitments it has also helped raise Cundall’s profile with a story in the Manchester Evening News. These bike sharing initiatives are offered in a number of cities, speak to your local One Planet Committee to find out if you can do the same.

Neil McAlpine has lectured in academic institutions throughout the UK and globally on the topic of sustainable transport design to professionals starting out their career through PTRC and to his peer groups. Neil has focussed on the future transport network and how professionals can shape the accessibility of the city and the way people chose to move within this space. Check out Neil’s blog Transport Pollution - 10 Things to make it history.

9% WALKING 2% TRAM 4% BICYCLE 5% BUS

walking

1% MOTORBIKE

car/taxi motorbike train bus bicycle tram

51% TRAIN

LUSAIL LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT, QATAR

The Lusail Light Rail Transit (LRT) system will provide a sustainable, state-of-the-art transportation network, serving the nineteen districts of the new city of Lusail. Cundall is responsible for the design development for ten underground stations, two open cut stations with one at grade station. Stations include associated pumping stations, ventilations shafts and tunnels. Total station area is approx. 200,000 m2.

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As part of the Cundall Diploma, each office conducted a waste audit lasting one week. This identified waste streams and volumes, allowing each office to consider ways to reduce waste as well as how to increase recycling rates.

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PRINCIPLE OF THE MONTH

Adelaide

ENCOURAGE WALKING AND CYCLING AND LOW OR ZERO CARBON MODES OF TRANSPORT IN OUR OFFICES

JULY 2017

A monthly dashboard was created which was displayed in every office as well as available online to all staff. This was designed to educate, benchmark and inspire.

Belfast

R CTU RES T

Birmingham

Brisbane

Provide facilities such as showers and bike racks so that people can cycle/run to work.

Bucharest

Doha

Select office locations with good public transport nearby.

Dubai

Dublin

Encourage car sharing.

Edinburgh

Use skype video conferencing to avoid business travel wherever possible.

Hong Kong

London

ON OUR PROJECTS Madrid

Provide showers and end of trip facilities to encourage cycling/running/walking to work.

Manchester Melbourne

Design to create safe and easy access to public transport wherever possible. Prioritise low carbon private vehicles if car parking provided (e.g. electric car chargers and small cars).

Newcastle

5910

Perth

Shanghai Singapore

Sydney

Warsaw

walking

car/taxi

motorbike

train

bus

bicycle

tram

AVERAGE GLOBAL TRAVEL MODES (BY KM)

PARTICIPANT HOURS

31% CAR/TAXI

Our involvement is not only helping us achieve our One Planet Commitments it has also helped raise Cundall’s profile with a story in the Manchester Evening News. These bike sharing initiatives are offered in a number of cities, speak to your local One Planet Committee to find out if you can do the same.

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2% TRAM 4% BICYCLE 5% BUS

walking

1% MOTORBIKE

car/taxi motorbike train bus bicycle tram

51% TRAIN

LUSAIL LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT, QATAR

9% WALKING

TRANSPORT DISCIPLINE

MANCHESTER AND MOBIKES

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Monthly Dashboards

Our Communities Making a difference outside of work, to actively contribute to local communities and help our staff (and their family and friends) lead more sustainable lives is an important part of our values as a business. Give and gain, Newcastle, UK

In 2016, Cundall celebrated its 40th anniversary. To mark this anniversary, we set our staff the challenge to donate 40,000 hours volunteering. This saw a wide spectrum of volunteering from our 21 locations. Offices clubbed together to volunteer, for example our Hong Kong office volunteered to become “Food Angels” and helped prepare rescued food in Food Angel’s central kitchen which was distributed to those in need. Individuals were seen contributing to their community with Structural Associate, Emma Kent leading her local scout group.

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Engineers volunteered their knowledge and skills to make a difference to communities in need, for example Stephen Dixon, geotechnical engineer, travelled to Sierra Leone to help construct a new sanitation block. UNICEF states that in 2015, 2.3 billion people still lacked a basic sanitation service. Cundall’s Manchester office provided structural engineering and specialist lighting design on a charitable basis for the refurbishment of the hospital building, “The Lodge at Reuben’s”, a structure dating back to 1889 and formerly known as Woods Hospital. The retreat will give solace and support to families and their close friends who have suffered the bereavement of a child or have a child suffering from a life limiting or lifethreatening illness.

The scheme opened Cundall employee’s eyes to the various ways they can donate their time, skills and money to benefit those less fortunate. This initiative was very well supported across our global business with all offices taking part. Therefore, in the next financial year, Cundall will be rolling out the inspiring future generations scheme which will see staff from around the world volunteer to inspire the next generation.

Our Communities: 40,000 hours In 2016, Cundall celebrated its 40th Birthday and alongside the events and activities to celebrate this milestone. Cundall also wanted to ensure that we gave something back to the people, organisations and communities around us and pledged a total of 40,000 hours of volunteering to reflect our 40 years in business. Although we did not reach our 40,000 target, we did see a significant increase in volunteering activities for this year across the global business. In the 2016 calender year, Cundall employees donated 20,000 hours; an average of around 30 hours per member of staff.

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Our Communities: Map around the World BIRMINGHAM Volunteered at nearby Kingsbury Water Park country park in July and September, to creat a new meadow and wildlife area.

EDINBURGH James Spears and John McLoughlin donated their time to design an open space community area at a local village.

LONDON Undertook three projects for charity CRASH.

NEWCASTLE Staff raised enough money to fill 18 shoe boxes which were sent to children around the world.

MANCHESTER Ashleigh Dola volunteered to help build a community pub.

WARSAW Participated in the charity run event, Warsaw Business Run

DUBLIN Employees have applied their skills to play music at a hospice and at a SOSAD charity event

BUCHAREST Donated books, clothes and food to ASA (Asociata Social Activ) who help rural families.

HONG KONG Corporate sponsors of Lighthouse Club, Hong Kong who provide charitable assistance to those in need within the construction industry and their dependants.

ADELAIDE Stella Matulessya volunteers on a regular basis for Orange Sky Laundry, a free mobile laundry serice for the homeless.

MADRID Raul Lopez regularly donates blood.

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DOHA Donated 10 big â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; Christmas boxes for migrant workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Prepared with 24 daily use items and given to camps with workers from Nepal, India, Pakistann and Sri Lanka.

MELBOURNE Collected food for their local food bank while celebrating Taste of Harmony Day. SYDNEY Corporate partner of the Art Gallery of NSW, where our funds are used to purchase art for the gallery.

Performance against the ten One Planet Living Principles

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Encouraging active, sociable, meaningful lives to promote good health and wellbeing.

The staff survey has shown a decrease in staff agreeing that Cundall is a great place to work by 23% from 2014/15 to 2016/17. This needs to improve to 80% to meet our 2025 target. The staff survey participation has decreased by 37% from 2014/15 to 2016/17. This needs to improve to 85% to meet the 2025 target. In order to address the decrease in staff participation in the survey, we have decided to introduce a flexible employee feedback platform - conducting regular shorter surveys - which also allow for confidential feedback to the HR team, as well as a peer to peer recognition feature encouraging co-workers to recognise each other for a job well done.

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Creating safe, equitable places to live and work which support local prosperity and international fair trade. The percentage of floor area with natural ventilation and/or access to connectivity to the outdoor has decreased by 15% from 2015/16 to 2016/17. This will need to improve significantly to meet the 2025 targets, however this target needs to be reviewed as the offices expand and move to new corporate real-estate commercial buildings it will not be feasible to target.

The percentage of workstations within 7m of a window has decreased by 10% from 2015/16 to 2016/17, however still meets the 2025 target.

The percent of staff under the living wage has nearly halved in the last year to 2.5% of all staff in Cundall, including internships. Cundall is working hard towards our 2025 target of 0%.

Cundall conducted 47 sustainability seminars in 2016/17 an improvement of 74% from 2012/13, almost meeting our 50 seminars a year by 2025 which will inevitably happen as the business continues to grow.

Staff numbers with access to flexible working options and compliance with Ethical Business Practice as required by law has been implemented across the UK, meeting the 2025 target.

Nurturing local identity and heritage, empowering communities and promoting a culture of sustainable living. Cundall has exceeded the 2015 target for involvement in 15 community projects, as we have been involved in 20 projects in 2016/2017 reporting year. We did not meet our target of achieving 0.4% of our total turnover to be donated to charity, achieving 0.03%. This is because we have focused our time on probono activities, donating our time rather than money. This year, Cundall pledged 40,000 hours of volunteering to celebrate its 40th birthday and have achieved 20,000 hours.

Protecting and restoring land for the benefit of people and wildlife.

We have strengthened the culture of sustainability within our business through the development of the Beyond Report, a free set of recommendations based on the One Planet Principles designed to make the projects we are delivering more sustainable. We also developed and disseminated a sustainability induction video, where all staff made a sustainability pledge â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and heard directly from our Managing Partner TomĂĄs Neeson on what and why sustainability and One Planet Living are important to our business. We have supported culture by installing artwork by local artists in our offices, with 42% of our offices with such artworks. This exceeds our 2015 target of 25%.

Over the last twelve months the percentage of Cundall offices that provide habitats for birds and insects has dropped significantly to 11% from 50%. This is due to the addition of new offices and old offices moving to corporate real-estate commercial buildings. The number of staff participating in tree planting or other local wildlife conservation activities has also significantly dropped in 2016/17 to 4.3% from 33% in 2015/16, this is due to a rise in donating time to other charitable causes (not just those that contribute towards wildlife conservation).

The Sill, Northumberland, UK

The project incorporates renewable energy in the form of solar panels, utilises orientation, daylight and high level of insulation to minimise energy demands, 80% of the external wall of the building is finished in locally sourced materials and increases biodiversity within the vegetation biodiverse roof as well as providing habitats for bats and birds.

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Using water efficiently, protecting local water resources and reducing flooding and drought.

Promoting sustainable humane farming and healthy diets high in local, seasonal organic food and vegetable protein.

The total consumption of water has increased as the business has expanded. In addition, the majority of new offices have additional water services such as showers and changing facilities and therefore the consumption has increased.

The type of tea, coffee and sugar used for staff and meetings has remained the same without any improvement to the percentage being organic and/or fair trade. This will need to be addressed to improve from the current 31% to 90% of food purchased for consumption in offices.

Capturing the water consumption has been a major challenge as the water supply is usually controlled by the landlord and not submetered for tenants. Hence, this consumption is very much an informed estimate of Cundallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actual water usage.

Percentage of food procured for business activities that is local, seasonal and/or organic

The amount of food that is local, seasonal and/or organic has increased by 15%, while the amount of vegetarian food purchased has increased by 8%.

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This is due to a drive by our marketing teams to provide vegetarian food at all of our external and internal thought leadership events, helping to spread the message of a plant based diet and its impact on green house gas emissions.

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2016/17

2015/16

2014/15

2013/14

2012/12

AVERAGE GLOBAL TRAVEL MODES (BY KM)

Reducing the need to travel, encouraging walking, cycling and low carbon transport.

9% WALKING 28% CAR/TAXI

The total emissions due to business travel has reduced even though the business has expanded. Cundall has already met and exceeded its 2025 target of 325 tCO2e . Business travel has been reduced with the introduction and ease of use of Skype, which has eliminated the need for a lot of travel. Our commuting emissions have increased by 42% from our baseline and exceed our 2015 target, in the same time that our business has seen an 88% growth in staff numbers.

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Our recent travel survey revealed that some of our offices are better than others at utilising sustainable transport options. The location of our offices generally supports the use of public transport, with 70% of kilometers travelled via train, bus, bicycle, tram or walking. Staff commute has increased, reasons may be due to increase in the cost of living in major cities Cundall offices are in that people choose to live further away. The travel survey highlighted a lot of extremely long commute times. This should be addressed under a travel policy to allow people flexible working conditions to work remotely.

1% MOTORBIKE 51% TRAIN 5% BUS 4% BICYCLE 2% TRAM

Using materials from sustainable sources and promoting products.

This year, our targeted efforts have resulted in us surpassing our 2025 targets by reaching an impressive reduction to 18kg of paper consumed per person. This is a 45.8% reduction on last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results. There was an increase in the proportion of FSC paper purchased from 17% in 2013 to 67% in 2017.

Reducing consumption, re-using and recycling to achieve zero waste and zero pollution.

Reduce paper consumption (kg of paper/ person)

Cundall set a goal to reduce waste sent to landfill by setting a target of 98% waste recycled or reused. As of 2017, we have achieved 78% recycled or reused.

The decrease in paper consumption is due to less printing as more work is done digitally, discouraging unnecessary printing and the implementation of follow-me printing technology.

We acknowledge our target is for recycling, and we will endeavour in future years to gather data that is split into re-use, recycling and diversion from landfill to get more accurate statistics.

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2016/17

2015/16

2014/15

2013/14

2012/12

We have also increased the purchase of natural cleaning products in our offices, from 33% to 53% since 2013 and will further increase this through improving our procurement processes. Our new offices have also been designed more sustainably. We have target to achieve a rating of gold or equivalent for new fit-outs, but we have not met the target % in any year.

This has been primarily achieved with a change in waste management practice from our largest offices, London and Birmingham, who now employ a third party waste contractors to divert 100% of waste from landfill (all waste that is not recycled is sent to energy recovery plant).

Organic waste is a significant proportion of the waste produced in our offices, and whilst we have a worm farm in Sydney, ways to increase the diversion of this stream from landfill is one way we will look into increasing our total diversion rates, as well as better education and easier to understand recycling processes.

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111 111

6 4

2016/17

107

2015/16

2014/15

2013/14

2012/12 23

2014/15

Since 2012, we have seen our carbon per person figure drop by 27.6%, and in the future, we will work towards decreasing this further by implementing energy saving initiatives in our offices.

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Procure direct (tenant) electricity from renewable energy sources (% of direct renewable electricity)

2013/14

Whilst this figure has increased to 6.8% from our baseline and exceeds our 2015 target, at the same time our business has seen an 88% growth in staff numbers. Accordingly, we have seen a decrease in our business energy use intensity of 39%, which indicates that our offices are using less energy on a meter square basis since 2012.

This may be attributed to increasing efficiency of our office design; the lighting power density of our newer offices is much less than our older offices and behavioural changes such as increased flexible working and minimising air conditioning usage.

2016/17

We set a target to reduce the total emissions due to office operations.

Tenant office energy (kWh per m2 of Gross Internal Area)

2012/12

Making buildings and manufacturing energy efficient and supplying all energy with renewables.

Progress against our Key Performance Indicators

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Objective

Annual Indicator

Baseline

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2015 Target

2025 Target

65%

80%

85%

Background data Full Time Equivalent Staff

People

465

334

383

452

566

640

Number of Offices

Number

Number of Offices with more than 10 FTE staff

Number

Floor Area

5,485

5,585

5755

6501

7340

Occupancy Desnsity

m2 per person

16.4

14.6

12.7

Turnover

11.5

11.7

£45,100,000

£52,100,000

not measured

52%

Health and happiness 75%

Measure and improve staff health and happiness at work

% of staff agreeing its a great place to work

Proud to work at Cundall (average score)

Proud to Work: average score out of 10

Health and Happiness (average score)

Health & Happiness: average score out of 10

Measure and improve staff health and happiness at work

% of staff participating in the survey

75%

Workplaces to have natural ventilation and/or connectivity to outdoors

% of office floor area with natural ventilation or access to external work spaces

75%

81%

Workplaces to have good daylighting and/or external views

% of workstations within 7m of a window

50%

79%

Sustainability training of staff

No. of sustainability training seminars held each year in Cundall offices

4.80%

0.50%

60%

not measured not measured

7.8 6.7 69%

not measured

32%

66%

52%

49%

34%

75%

90%

75%

78%

81%

71%

60%

70%

2.5%

not measured not measured

not measured not measured not measured

Equity and local economy

(UK Only)

Pay all staff a “living wage”

% of staff paid on an hourly rate less than "living wage" (UK Business operations only), including placement students and trainees

Extend existing flexible working policies to more members of the business

% of staff with access to flexible working options, (UK Business operations only)

As required by law

30%

100%

50%

100%

Compliance with Ethical Business Policy

No. of incidents of non-compliance within our Ethical Business Policy (UK Business operations only)

Positively contribute to communities less fortunate than our own by donating time and skills

No. of community projects undertaken

Volunteering

Number of hours volunteered within staff time

Volunteering

Number of hours volunteered within staff time per person

Increase financial support for local and international charities

Money raised as a proportion of turnover by both employees and Cundall donations

Install works by local artists in reception of each office

% of offices (>10 staff) with local artworks

Culture and community

17,534 27 *

0.05%

0.06%

0.12%

0.004%

0.03%

0.20%

0.40%

11%

42%

25%

100%

Land and nature Provide native habitat for birds and insects outside our offices (where possible)

% of viable offices with habitat provided

57%

50%

11%

25%

75%

Participate in tree planting or other local wildlife / conservation activities

% of staff participating each year

27%

33%

4.3%

20%

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Objective

Annual Indicator

Baseline

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2015 Target

2025 Target

2550

2104

2293

1800

4762

4959

2200

1800

Sustainable water Reduce water consumption

Water per person

m3/person

Local and sustainable food Buy organic and / or Fair Trade tea, coffee, sugar for staff and meetings

% of food by cost

50%

38%

26%

29%

32%

31%

75%

90%

Request our suppliers provide local, seasonal and/or organic food for meetings and functions

% of food by cost

17%

32%

50%

75%

Reduce amount of meat and fish in food we purchase

% of vegetarian food purchased

21%

18%

26%

30%

60%

Sustainable transport Reduce emissions due to business travel

tCO2e

483

409

443

413

not measured

408

450

325

Reduce emissions due to staff commuting

tCO2e

510

not measured

343

405

not measured

724

450

325

Commuting emissions per person

tCO2e / person

not measured

0.9

not measured

1.2

Business travel emissions per person

tCO2e / person

1.2

0.9

not measured

0.6

Business: Flights

tCO2e

not measured

158

Business: Flights (post 1.008 factor and Radiative Forcing factor 1.9)

tCO2e

217

278

253

not measured

303

Business: Trains

tCO2e

not measured

Business: Cars

tCO2e

135

137

130

not measured

17%

not measured

67%

100%

Sustainable materials kg of paper / person

Reduce paper consumption Purchase recycled or FSC certified paper

% FSC or recycled

Fit-out new offices sustainably

% of new fit-outs with min rating of Gold or equivalent

Use natural cleaning products to reduce ecological impact

% of natural products used

Total paper consumption

kg of paper

34 3%

18%

19%

no fit-outs

33%

50%

33%

75%

100%

33%

44%

50%

55%

53%

50%

90%

11,113

12,378

14,073

16,980

11,608

Zero waste 63

Not Measured

% diverted from landfill

60%

71%

Not Measured

78%

80%

98%

Purchase UK renewable energy credits to offset tCO2e emissions from waste

% of tCO2e emissions offset

Not Measured

100%

Waste per person

kg of waste / person / year

135

126

Not Measured

71.1

Reduce waste generated

Tonnes

Reduce waste sent to landfill by recycling / reuse

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Objective

Annual Indicator

Baseline

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2015 Target

2025 Target

Zero carbon energy Reduce CO2 emissions due to tenant (our leased space) office energy consumption

tCO2e

353

318

324

384

427

462

315

Reduce CO emissions due to total office energy consumption (landlord & tenant)

tCO2e

610

483

480

587

642

666

555

Reduce total leased office energy consumption (tenant + landlord)

kWh per m2 of GIA

252

199

178

193

198

180

250

200

Reduce tenant (our leased space) office energy

kWh per m of GIA

139

118

111

108

107

150

100

Procure direct (tenant) electricity from renewable energy sources

% of direct renewable electricity

24%

11%

8.1%

40%

100%

Landlord to procure energy from renewable energy sources

% of landlord renewable energy

3.6%

20%

100%

Energy Carbon per person

tCO2e / person

1.31

1.4

1.3

1.1

1.0

Energy Carbon per m2

tCO2e/m2

40%

Total Carbon - Scope 1, 2 & 3

9 1817

Total Emissions - Scope 1

tCO2e

Total Emissions - Scope 2

tCO2e

467

Total Emissions - Scope 3

tCO2e

1279

Other Increase skills in sustainability

No. of sustainablity qualifications as a % of our staff

Not recorded

20%

Industry recognition for our people

No. of awards for individuals (cumulative since 2009)

Not recorded

Representation on Industry Committees

No. of external committees / groups we are a member of

Not recorded

Sustainability Training

Total number of hours of sustainability training

Sustainability Training

Number of hours per person of sustainability training

Investment in R&D

% of turnover invested in R&D

Not recorded

0.07%

0.05%

Environmental Ratings

No. of buildings with certified BREEAM, LEED and Greenstar ratings (cumulative since 2009)

Not recorded

200

Top 20% building performance

% of buildings in the top 20% compared to notional energy benchmarks

Not recorded

50%

75%

Leaders in innovation

Number of innovation awards (cumulative since 2009)

Not recorded

Industry recognition of our work

No. of awards for sustainable projects (cumulative since 2009)

Not recorded

Purchase carbon credits or mitigation measures

% of total CO2e (carbon offset certifcate)

100%

150%

Win Awards recognising the sustainability of our business

No. of corporate awards since 2009

Not recorded

Obtain certified energy ratings for offices with more than 10 staff

% of offices with DEC / NABERS ratings

Not recorded

80%

100%

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