Sustainability

Our Zero Incident Goal.​ Our team’s wellness, and health and safety are our top priority. ​It’s not about statistics, it’s about how much we care for one another.​ Our people remain at the very heart of Englobe’s success. We reinforced our commitment to our employees’ health and safety at work by developing comprehensive action plans and placing health and safety concerns firmly at the centre of all Englobe initiatives.​

For us, health and safety is not only something we take care on the field. Mental health is equally important. ​The need for psychosocial support is critical now more than ever. We recognized early on that our responsibility was to do more to help our people and our communities navigate this difficult time.

Diversity is part of our corporate values. We firmly believe that together we are better and that diversity makes us stronger. We have a culture of caring, commitment to professional development and a genuine commitment to diversity and inclusion. For us, diversity propels us because it brings a greater variety of ideas and ways of doing things. We benefit from being open to others, as we can only grow by welcoming different ideas.​

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Diversity plays an even more important role in an environment where initiative is encouraged, as we create even more value for our customers and communities. What drives us is our desire to make a tangible impact.​

We take pride in being ethically unyielding and honest, in inspiring trust. We are committed to sound and effective corporate governance. We continually review and enhance these practices to achieve higher standards and pursue greater transparency and integrity year after year. For us, this means living up to our core values.​

Many factors may lead to a project being accepted or rejected but, in the end, what matters is aligning a common view of development with that of the local community and society as a whole.​

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Having a responsible approach to dealing with issues and situations is key. We are proactive and maintain a rigorous, open and transparent presence on the ground. This creates a conducive environment for establishing ties of trust, which are critical for ensuring progress on projects. Englobe therefore relies on approaches and tools with a range of applications that extends far beyond simple and conventional communication, information and consultation activities.

Our team recognizes the value and significance of mutual respect, understanding, and positive collaboration with our First Nations partners. We have learned through experience that by focusing on social risk analysis and taking the time to understand local dynamics, we can better predict issues, challenges and feedback that may impact successful project delivery.

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Whenever possible, and to be identified at the start of the project, we work directly with Council, Elders, and other community members to build meaningful relationships and to enhance benefits to the project, community, and region. We also invest in hiring, training and supporting the First Nations communities.

We believe that we can make a difference in our communities by sharing our knowledge and expertise. Through different initiatives and programs, our team has been trained, educated and engaged with people from all walks of life. From elementary school to post grad students.

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For us, sharing knowledge is about building a sustainable legacy for the generations to come. And what is even more important is that we are encouraging our employees to grow both inside and outside of the company.

Today, society is infinitely complex with new challenges to overcome, but also opportunities to make the world a better place. We believe that in order to nudge things in the right direction, it takes special care.​

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In everything we do, we apply the life-cycle principals and think systemically – considering resources in a holistic way with possible broad environmental, social and financial outcomes. We genuinely engage with local communities and we encourage the collaboration of our interdisciplinary experts to find solutions that are effective and sustainable.​

Our materials testing laboratories process metric tones of concrete and asphalt concrete products every year. In the past, these waste materials would go straight into landfills while now, they are sorted on-site and transported to select recycling facilities to be transformed into graded aggregate material for re-use in road construction.​

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Recycling of concrete and asphalt products results in two significant benefits:​

• The concrete and asphalt waste is diverted from the landfills to be recycled and re-used in roadworks (commercial and residential projects); and​

• Reducing trucking and thus CO2 emissions.​

Remediating contaminated materials, including soils and organics, using both in-situ methods, as well as ex-situ treatment facilities, is part of our daily operations. It is who we are. 

We believe that treated materials should be beneficially reused and leveraged to create various topsoil and compost products that benefit local communities and the environment.