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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.
And there's the rub: we build buildings so we are very much part of what is going wrong.
The facts are grim, but as a leading property company, we are committed to safeguarding our global environment for future generations to enjoy. We have relaunched our Environment Policy with clearly defined targets to achieve by 2010.
Instead of blithely continuing to be net users of the earth's natural capital, we have started to measure our carbon and ecological footprint. And for the past 24 months, we've been tracking our environmental impacts across our organisation by measuring our use of energy and water, our greenhouse gas emissions and our waste. We will soon start to measure our impact on human health, biodiversity and resource depletion.
Our business operations have taken huge strides forward in our goal to be zero net carbon, water and waste as a minimum. We are not quite there yet, but with 1054 professionals trained in Green Building rating tools, 675 of whom are accredited, we have a vast pool of technical expertise across the world to blend sustainable environmental solutions into the planning and operation processes of all our projects.
Our creativity is one of the most responsible resources we have. Simon Hardy and his highly innovative team at Lend Lease design have helped to expand our notion of sustainable design and set new global benchmarks with buildings like The Bond and The Gauge.
We are constantly evolving our thinking. Somerset Central in Singapore is set to be one of the greenest shopping centres in one of the world's most concentrated retail precincts.
We are determined to act with integrity by respecting local ecosystems. For example, Mawson Lakes, our award-winning urban development in Australia, is entwined with the surrounding wetlands in ways that are mutually enriching, as well as setting new standards for water-efficient living.
Sustainable solutions demand holistic thinking, so we have joined forces with industry, government and other key stakeholders so that together we can tackle the significant environmental, social and economic challenges of our time.
Change Agents
Meet the people making Lend Lease a sustainable leader
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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