VINCI - 2005 annual report

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