Lend Lease | Every Action Adds Up
Environment
Summary
The built environment determines our quality of life. It provides our homes, schools, shopping centres, offices, libraries, museums, hospitals and parks, and the
infrastructure on which we depend. But the built environment is currently responsible for 40 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, consuming a third of the
world’s limited resources and generating millions of tonnes of waste each year.
The facts are grim but as a leading global property company, we recognise our responsibility to develop a sustainable property industry that actively protects, preserves
and improves the environment.
Our commitment is to be zero net carbon, water and waste as a minimum, which is why we are passionate about promoting green building practices. Green buildings conserve the
earth’s natural resources through the efficient and intelligent use of energy, materials and water, as well as improving human health and productivity.
With over 1,375 Green Building-trained professionals, we have a vast pool of technical expertise to drive the green agenda, brick-by-brick, building-by-building and
city-by-city.
In a tough economic climate, we are proud of our achievements because it demonstrates that green building is a business imperative. Our overall environmental performance in
2009 remained positive, and we won exciting new opportunities to plan and design future communities that will set international benchmarks in carbon-neutral living and
contribute to a higher quality of life for all.
In addition to our existing precinct developments in London's Stratford City and Elephant and Castle, and Melbourne's Victoria Harbour Docklands, we were successful in our
bid to develop waterfront precincts at Barangaroo in Sydney and Alkimos in Perth.
In developing these landmark projects, we hope that our commitment to intelligent design, our stewardship of eco-friendly building materials and resources, our investment in
clean energy technologies and our ability to build partnerships at all levels of government and society, will move us closer to becoming a global sustainable leader.
Because we incorporate sustainable thinking into everything we do, we have developed a Global Supply Leadership Strategy to embed sustainability across our supply chains and
into all of the products, materials and services we use in our day-to-day operations.
But as well as promoting sustainable development to our stakeholders, we have also been closely assessing our own operations. All our offices adhere to the Lend Lease Global
Environmental Management System, which supports all corporate activities from sustainable procurement, to green travel plans, to reducing our waste, our carbon footprint and
our consumption of energy, water and paper.
Our environmental reporting tool, Insight Environment, has proved invaluable in collating information and helping us to better understand our environmental performance. We
will continue to use Insight Environment to reduce our environmental impacts, to exchange ideas and to share best practice within our company, and the industry beyond.
Through our advocacy on the Efficient Building Scheme, Lend Lease has been successful in effecting policy change, with government providing economic incentives to promote a
new emissions trading scheme that encourages energy efficiency in buildings.
We have also maintained our position on external reporting indices including the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the Goldman Sachs JBWere Climate Leadership Index for the
Carbon Disclosure Project.
Lend Lease is committed to making a positive difference in the world and we will continue to safeguard our global environment for future generations to enjoy.
Change Agents
Meet the people making Lend Lease a sustainable leader
Craig Tucker, Environment Health Safety & Sustainability Manager, Bovis Lend Lease, Oman Botanic Garden
Craig Tucker is helping transform 520 hectares of desert into one of the world’s most foremost and sustainable botanical gardens.
Simon Hardy, General Manager, Lend Lease design
Simon Hardy and his dedicated team of practitioners have taken huge strides forward towards our goal to be zero net carbon, water and waste as a minimum.
Joseph Goh, Project Engineer, Bovis Lend Lease, Singapore
With Somerset Central, Joseph Goh had the vision to see the possibilities of tomorrow within the realities of today.
Kelvin Trimper, Director of Education and Community Development Manager, Mawson Lakes, Australia
Finding unity in diversity is one of life's greatest challenges. Kelvin Trimper has shown stakeholders how to pull together to deliver community-scale outcomes at Mawson Lakes.
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