Environmental sustainability

Fletcher Building works to ensure our operations, products and services have a positive impact on the environment. When we talk of sustainability we mean maintaining the long term viability of our businesses by minimising our impacts on the natural environment.

We advance sustainability by:

• Ensuring our products and services lead to better environmental efficiency in our customers’ buildings and infrastructure

• Eliminating or minimising waste from our products, services and workplaces

• Finding and implementing economic energy-efficient solutions for our businesses

A range of strategies support our sustainability commitment, including the use of recycled materials as raw material and fuels, the use of renewable energy - particularly biomass - and the introduction of new technologies to provide energy to our industrial processes. We are also achieving greater energy efficiency through plant and equipment improvements.

Fletcher Building has an Executive Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Council chaired by CEO Jonathan Ling. This has been formed to provide direction and coordination to our continuing efforts to reduce our environmental footprint and to improve communications and effectiveness on these issues.