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Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable development must address
environmental, economic, and social factors and the interrelationships between them.
The Kinetics Group (KG) is committed to promoting sustainability.
Concern for the environment and promoting a broader sustainability
agenda are integral to KG's professional activities and the management
of the organisation. We aim to follow and to promote good
sustainability practice, to reduce the environmental impacts of all our
activities and to help our clients and partners to do the same.
Our Commitment to Sustainability
The Kinetics Group Ltd commits to implement this policy throughout the organisation by:
- Maximising emission savings of our activities;
- Minimising consumption of resources and waste arisings;
- Working towards carbon neutrality on our office energy use and travel;
- Complying with all relevant environmental legislation;
- Maintaining the ISO 14001 standard for all office locations;
- Training staff on our sustainability objectives;
- Communicating and reporting progress, both internally and externally;
- Operating in a socially and ethically responsible manner.
- Using all suitable opportunities to influence our partners,
suppliers and sub contractors to improve their own environmental
performance.
Principles
Our Sustainability Policy is based upon the following principles:
To comply with, and exceed where practicable, all applicable legislation, regulations and codes of practice.
To integrate sustainability considerations into all our business decisions.
To ensure that all staff are fully aware of our Sustainability Policy and are committed to implementing and improving it.
To minimise the impact on sustainability of all office and transportation activities.
To make clients and suppliers aware of
our Sustainability Policy, and encourage them to adopt sound
sustainable management practices.
To review, annually report, and to continually strive to improve our sustainability performance.
Practical steps
In order to put these principles into practice we will:
Travel and meetings Walk, cycle and/or use public transport to
attend meetings, site visits etc, apart from in exceptional
circumstances where the alternatives are impractical and/or cost
prohibitive.
Travel to mainland Europe within a 1000km radius (excluding Scandinavia) normally will be undertaken by train.
Include the full costs of more sustainable forms of transport in our
financial proposals, rather than the least cost option which may
involve travelling by car or air. Where the only practical alternative
is to fly, we will include costs for full air fares rather than budget
airlines in our financial proposals, and appropriate
offsets.
Avoid physically travelling to meetings etc where alternatives are
available and practical, such as using teleconferencing, video
conferencing or web cams, and efficient timing of meetings to avoid
multiple trips. These options are also often more time efficient, while
not sacrificing the benefits of regular contact with
clients and partners.
To reduce the need to travel to meetings and elsewhere, and
facilitate regular client contact, we will provide a web cam to clients
free of charge for the duration of a project where appropriate.
Reduce the need for our staff to travel by supporting alternative
working arrangements, including home working etc, and promote the use
of public transport by locating our offices in accessible locations.
Use an emissions recording scheme for business travel to monitor our impact. Purchase of equipment and consumption of resources
Minimise our use of paper and other office consumables, for example
by double-siding all paper used, and identifying opportunities to
reduce waste.
As far as possible arrange for the reuse or recycling of office
waste, including paper, computer supplies and redundant equipment.
Reduce the energy consumption of office equipment by purchasing energy efficient equipment and good housekeeping.
Purchase electricity from a supplier committed to renewable energy.
Seek to maximise the proportion from renewable energy sources, whilst
also supporting investment in new renewable energy schemes.
Ensure that timber furniture, and any other timber products, are
recycled or from well-managed, sustainable sources and are Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC) certified.
Purchase fair-trade and/or organic beverages.
Working practices and advice to clients
Undertake voluntary work with the local community and / or
environmental organisations and make donations to seek to offset carbon
emissions from our activities.
Ensure that any associates that we employ take account of sustainability issues in their advice to clients.
Include a copy of our Sustainability Policy in all our proposals to clients.
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