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"Throughout our business, Redrow understands its responsibilities to the environment."
Our Environmental Management System is based around the themes of preventing pollution, ensuring legal compliance, reducing resource use and minimising waste.
The key document within the system is our Environmental Policy which sets out our main aims relating to environmental management. The environmental policy forms the basis from which our objectives and targets are developed.
In 2007 we introduced a robust internal auditing system for all sites, where environmental issues are examined on a regular and continual basis and the performance of each of our subsidiary companies is reported monthly to the Main Board.
In 2008 we have underpinned this monitoring and reporting procedure, with formalised performance standards in our comprehensive Environmental Standards document. This document breaks down all aspects of land investigation and construction into General and Process Environmental Standards encompassing 26 categories ranging from Archaeology to Working near Water. For each category information is provided in respect of benefits, risks, minimisation and mitigation of impacts and legal and regulatory requirements. A checklist is also provided to assist site staff to ensure that they have properly considered all the pertinent issues.
The Environmental Standards are covered in the training syllabus ( for more details see the Learning and Development section) and are published on Redrow’s intranet – Redroweb and details of performance and progress are monitored and audited by the Corporate Responsibility Committee which receives reports in addition to the main Board.
In 2007 we also undertook our first calculation of direct carbon emissions arising from our group-wide activities. The calculation covers electricity and gas usage at sites and offices, together with fuel consumption for all plant and vehicles owned or controlled by Redrow. This process was repeated in 2008 and our collated data was again submitted to the Carbon Disclosure Programme. The data accumulated over the two year period also enabled us to consider meaningful targets and consequently we have set ourselves a 5% reduction target for the forthcoming year and aspire to a 15% reduction by 2020.
Environmental Management
"Throughout our business, Redrow understands its responsibilities to the environment."
Our Environmental Management System is based around the themes of preventing pollution, ensuring legal compliance, reducing resource use and minimising waste.
The key document within the system is our Environmental Policy which sets out our main aims relating to environmental management. The environmental policy forms the basis from which our objectives and targets are developed.
In 2007 we introduced a robust internal auditing system for all sites, where environmental issues are examined on a regular and continual basis and the performance of each of our subsidiary companies is reported monthly to the Main Board.
In 2008 we have underpinned this monitoring and reporting procedure, with formalised performance standards in our comprehensive Environmental Standards document. This document breaks down all aspects of land investigation and construction into General and Process Environmental Standards encompassing 26 categories ranging from Archaeology to Working near Water. For each category information is provided in respect of benefits, risks, minimisation and mitigation of impacts and legal and regulatory requirements. A checklist is also provided to assist site staff to ensure that they have properly considered all the pertinent issues.
The Environmental Standards are covered in the training syllabus ( for more details see the Learning and Development section) and are published on Redrow’s intranet – Redroweb and details of performance and progress are monitored and audited by the Corporate Responsibility Committee which receives reports in addition to the main Board.
In 2007 we also undertook our first calculation of direct carbon emissions arising from our group-wide activities. The calculation covers electricity and gas usage at sites and offices, together with fuel consumption for all plant and vehicles owned or controlled by Redrow. This process was repeated in 2008 and our collated data was again submitted to the Carbon Disclosure Programme. The data accumulated over the two year period also enabled us to consider meaningful targets and consequently we have set ourselves a 5% reduction target for the forthcoming year and aspire to a 15% reduction by 2020.
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