Investing in tomorrow.
Our sustainability strategy is about staying ahead of the curve on global ESG trends. We will continue to innovate – evolving our investment and asset management frameworks, as well as our culture – to deliver value to all stakeholders.
Sandrine Lalmant, Head of SustainabilityHow our sustainability pillars shape our investment approach
Climate Change
The positive impacts we work to achieve
Build projects resilient to climate change and aligned with 1.5°C pathways
What we work to mitigate or avoid
Minimise GHG emissions and avoid exposure to fossil fuels
Resource Use
The positive impacts we work to achieve
Promote the efficient and sustainable use of resources
What we work to mitigate or avoid
Avoid non-hazardous construction and demolition waste going to landfill
Biodiversity
The positive impacts we work to achieve
Protect and restore biodiversity and ecosystems
What we work to mitigate or avoid
Avoid negative impact on biodiversity-sensitive areas
Communities
The positive impacts we work to achieve
Build local capacity and contribute to enhanced livelihoods and social wellbeing of communities
What we work to mitigate or avoid
Prevent and address adverse impact on communities
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The positive impacts we work to achieve
Advance diversity, equity and inclusion and promote the non-discriminatory use of infrastructure services
What we work to mitigate or avoid
Ensure equality of opportunity and treatment in employment
Responsible Business
The positive impacts we work to achieve
Uphold best-in-class moral, ethical, governance and labour standards
What we work to mitigate or avoid
Implement effective anticorruption measures and respect human rights
A hospital for a healthy environment
In the UK, Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital was designed as a ‘hill in the park’, with its green roof adding insulation to the building and most rooms benefiting from a view of the adjacent park.
Providing care for more than 270,000 children every year, it is among the most sustainable hospitals ever built. It uses a ground source heat pump, combined cooling, heat and power generation via an absorption chiller, air source heat pumps and photovoltaic panels, generating 60 per cent of its energy on site.
John Laing played a leading role in a consortium that financed and built the hospital, which opened its doors in October 2014, and we remain a long-term and active supporter of the hospital and its charity.
The hospital has a Green Plan that aims to reduce its carbon footprint, enable more energy efficient travel options and reduce waste. Its facilities and estate department are implementing decarbonisation initiatives that include use of energy-saving software, water and operations optimisation, and a shift to LED lighting.
