VINCI - 2005 annual report
VINCI - 2005 annual report
VINCI - 2005 annual report
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A RESPONSIBLE GROUP / THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT APPROACH<br />
<strong>VINCI</strong>’s sustainable<br />
development approach<br />
<strong>VINCI</strong>’s goal is to combine its business model with a humanistic focus based on<br />
social responsibility. Its sustainable development approach is built around<br />
fi ve main themes: human resources, civic involvement, customer and supplier<br />
relations, environment and corporate governance. Targets for the medium and<br />
long term have been defi ned in each of these areas.<br />
Coordination<br />
of the sustainable<br />
development<br />
approach<br />
In line with most of its functions, <strong>VINCI</strong> has<br />
decentralised responsibility for sustainable<br />
development to its operating entities and<br />
their senior management to ensure that the<br />
concepts and systems become an integral<br />
part of day-to-day operations.<br />
The sustainable development approach is<br />
coordinated by the sustainable development<br />
delegation and overseen by the 16-member<br />
sustainable development committee, which<br />
<strong>report</strong>s to the executive committee. It is<br />
supported by committees and think tanks,<br />
as well as a network of almost 200 sustainable<br />
development correspondents in<br />
the various subsidiaries. In <strong>2005</strong>, <strong>VINCI</strong><br />
Energies created a sustainable development<br />
club bringing together 17 regional<br />
directors. Each of the division’s 700 business<br />
units was invited to present its sustainable<br />
development actions and goals within the<br />
framework of its “shared strategic project”.<br />
In <strong>2005</strong>, the holding company’s sustain-<br />
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able development delegation reinforced<br />
the support and advisory system available<br />
to operating entities by creating new tools.<br />
These included a methodology that aims<br />
to propose technical solutions at every<br />
stage of a project - design, construction,<br />
operation - to limit climate change impacts<br />
and enhance the eco-effi ciency of projects<br />
throughout their life cycle.<br />
Tools for supporting<br />
the strategy<br />
Social and environmental <strong>report</strong>ing<br />
The deployment of the system is part of an<br />
improvement programme that consists of<br />
target setting and performance assessment.<br />
The approach chosen by <strong>VINCI</strong> draws on<br />
the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)<br />
guidelines on transparency and on article<br />
116 of France’s new economic regulations<br />
law (NRE) and its enabling decree of<br />
20 February 2002.<br />
Exchange of best practices<br />
<strong>VINCI</strong> participates in a number of working<br />
groups within specialised organisations.<br />
They include “establishment of local roots”<br />
and “corporate involvement in disadvantaged<br />
neighbourhoods” with the Institut du<br />
Mécénat de Solidarité (IMS); “NGO-business<br />
partnerships” with the Observatoire de la<br />
Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises<br />
(ORSE); “climate change” with Entreprises<br />
pour l’Environnement (EPE); “protection of<br />
biodiversity” with AFEP and the Ministry<br />
for Ecology and Sustainable Development<br />
and “company-local authority relations”<br />
with Comité 21. <strong>VINCI</strong> also contributes to<br />
the work carried out by industry trade<br />
organisations such as EGF-BTP, FNTP, FFB,<br />
URSIF and ASFA.<br />
Dialogue with stakeholders<br />
<strong>VINCI</strong> identifi es the expectations of the<br />
stakeholders affected by its activities,<br />
mainly through customer and employee<br />
satisfaction surveys, questions raised at<br />
the Shareholders Meeting, meetings of<br />
the Group Works Council and European<br />
Works Council, press relations, meetings<br />
held to consult with local residents, the<br />
evaluation and negotiation of contracts, etc.<br />
The dialogue established and resulting<br />
feedback allow <strong>VINCI</strong> to adapt its practices<br />
to the present and future expectations of<br />
its stakeholders.