We are delighted to announce that in June Cemex UK was awarded with Silver accreditation with the Investors of the Environment for our Head Office in Binley, Coventry. This is excellent progress after achieving the Bronze accreditation in 2024.
Investors in the Environment (iiE) is a national environmental accreditation scheme designed to help organisations reduce their impact on the environment and receive recognition for their progress.
Since last year, the team at Binley made many positive changes and this iiE accreditation gives a stamp of approval for this further excellent work. The accreditation also ensures continuous improvement going forward.
To achieve Silver level accreditation, organisations are required to continue developing and implementing their Environmental Management System, using the framework to put forward a range of projects that will support continual improvement in resource and carbon management or nature protection.
For our Silver accreditation the Cemex team had to demonstrate implementation of processes, policies, and systems to manage, monitor and improve environmental performance. This included:
- Staff communication and engagement: consistently updating employees on sustainability efforts through various channels. This has led to a reduction in resource use, including waste.
- Setting ambitious sustainability goals, such as Zero Waste to Landfill and Net Zero by 2050, with interim targets for 2030 to help achieve these objectives.
- Ensuing that suppliers meet strict sustainability criteria to minimise supply chain climate impacts.
The target is to achieve the Green award at the next audit in 12 months’ time. This will be achieved by considering Scope 3 (indirect emissions) further by conducting a Scope 3 mapping exercise, building up an understanding of available data and incorporating this into the carbon footprint too.
Well done and big thanks to Natasha Page, Facilities Manager & HR Advisor, team for her hard work at Binley, with the support from the Binley Sustainability team.