Egis has rolled out an upskilling programme to ensure sustainability is integrated into all decision making across every project we deliver.
The initiative comprises a multi-year training programme that will be delivered to 90% of targeted employees worldwide. For 2024, this equates to over 4,000 colleagues across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The core objective of the programme is to incorporate and enhance sustainability measures across all our projects by 2030. Alongside this, we have developed an in-house tool to assess, influence and score projects based on our sustainability credentials.
Users can identify key recommendations that will help increase a project’s ‘eco-design’ score by seeking to reduce both local and global environmental impacts across the entire life cycle.
The programme has already enabled a project to achieve a 30% reduction in the urban heat island effect, a 50% decrease in embodied carbon through the specification of alternative materials and a tripling of green space through early design decisions.
The training programme is built around seven key themes: carbon, adaptation to climate change, biodiversity, the circular economy and resources, energy and water, pollution and land use. In the UK, the model is also being expanded to include social impact as a key part of the assessment at the design stage.
