Act & Commit Together
At COLAS, our mission is to design, build and maintain sustainable transport infrastructures around the world. We have a strong role to play in the ecological transition, and, as such, are clearly committed to doing business in a way that takes into account the challenges of climate change and the loss of biodiversity.
The goal of the Environment Chart is to codify this commitment.
To respond to the environmental challenges of today and tomorrow, we, at COLAS, bring our skills and innovative spirit onboard to serve customers, partners and users. Therefore, we must act in line with three major guiding principles, as follows:
REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
- Managing construction sites, quarries, plants and facilities, sustainably and responsibly
- Optimising waste management, reducing odours, noise and dust emissions to minimum
- Recycling, reusing and recovering materials to preserve natural resources
REDUCING EMISSIONS CAUSING GREENHOUSE EFFECT
- Using less fossil fuels
- Working with suppliers and subcontractors to reduce the carbon footprint of products we purchase
- Developing, implementing and promoting low-carbon solutions and techniques
PRESERVING ENVIRONMENT AND SPECIES AT EACH SITE
- Fostering ecological niches in quarries plants
- Integrating and managing the impact of each site on biodiversity
- Preserving remarkable species
- Managing invasive alien species to limit their spreading
To provide teams with the tools and resources they need to make headway, COLAS is committed but not limited to:
- Raising awareness and training employees in environmental issues
- Sharing best practices
- Publishing its environmental performance information both internally and externally