VolkerHighways, a leading integrated highway services provider, has showcased its commitment to sustainability by becoming a member of Greener Highways, joining the collaborative charge towards net zero.
Greener Highways is a membership organisation set up to unite the highways sector in the battle against the ongoing climate crisis. It aims to aid the sector with the education and implementation of sustainable initiatives, products, services and operations across the highways sector.
In order to achieve this, Greener Highways showcases the contributions of its members towards a cleaner, greener future. Greener Highways aims to tackle the climate emergency together by looking at areas such as energy, transport, wildlife and waste, with further aim to build best practice relationships between businesses to encourage faster changes towards long-term sustainability.
As part of a huge highways community, Greener Highways sees the environmental impact of the sectors business activities and realise that companies need to address increasingly serious environmental problems such as climate change, resource depletion, carbon footprints, and pollution.
VolkerHighways
VolkerHighways has opted for Greener Highways membership to support the delivery of its mission and aims of the organisation. The business believes in a cleaner, greener future in an industry that can make a monumental difference to communities with its carbon reduction.
VolkerHighways is a leader in the field of highway services, providing highway and street lighting term maintenance, surfacing, traffic management and telecoms. VolkerSmart Technologies, the smart city initiative of VolkerHighways, provides electric vehicle charge points and is an independent connection provider, for public and private sector clients.
VolkerHighways’ vision is to be a sustainable and innovative provider of choice for highways and infrastructure services. The business aims to grow responsibly, to deliver social value to the communities they work in and to protect the natural environment, leaving a legacy they are proud of.
This will be delivered through their sustainability framework – People, Planet, Purpose – a ‘decade of action’. VolkerHighways aims to take all its stakeholders, including its supply chain and clients, on the road to net zero by 2035.
Jason Convey, head of HSEQS for VolkerHighways, told us:
“VolkerHighways is committed to improving both our working and living environments to ensure we become a nation that is driving towards the same net zero goals. We have already done a lot of work by trialling and implementing innovative solutions, cutting our carbon emissions, through to encouraging the adoption of electric vehicles and are proud to report that 93 percent of company cars currently on order are hybrid or fully electric.
“We look forward to working with Greener Highways, and its partners, to continue our commitment to the environment and share what we already know, as well as to find new, alternative and sustainable solutions.”
To become a member of Greener Highways, please visit www.greenerhighways.co.uk/become-a-member
