Creating a better built environment for everyone
Our corporate responsibility underpins everything we do as a business. Together with our clients and partners, we have a key role in helping the world’s decarbonisation transition, incorporating environmental resilience into our strategy and that of our clients, to help ensure the benefits reach the communities we work in.
Our global Making the Difference Fund allows us to give back; our partnership with NGO Barefoot College International has so far supported 24 women through solar engineer training in Senegal and Guatemala and will train a total of 774 women over the course of our three-year partnership.
Creating a diverse supply chain across projects and programmes we work on, as well as investing in talent joining the industry across our global network, is also crucial to building a more equitable industry and world.
Read more about our impact in our annual corporate responsibility report
Empowering women through solar engineer training in Central America and West Africa
Our Making the Difference Fund, Barefoot College International
In 2023, we began a three-year partnership with the international NGO Barefoot College International. Our support focuses on the organisation’s Solar Mama ENRICHE programme in Guatemala and Senegal, which trains women in rural communities to install and maintain solar power technology. Our support will help train 744 women and result in the electrification of over 37,000 homes, benefitting approximately 300,000 people. The project will have a profound impact, enabling communities to transition from fossil fuel-based sources to clean, renewable energy – improving air pollution, avoiding health risks posed by traditional wood fires and giving children the opportunity to study by light after sunset.
24
women have graduated from our funded programme
350
solar lighting systems have been installed
“The impact is immediate, and the benefits are immeasurable.”
Karine Sar Regional Coordinator for Africa, Barefoot College International
Bringing diverse voices to the table and creating supply chain resilience
“When you have a supplier diversity programme, your company wins.”
Wayne Lambert Director of Supplier Diversity, Turner & Townsend
Supplier diversity programme
Embedding supply chain diversity across the global projects and programmes we work on is fundamental to our purpose and values. By encouraging the use of XBE companies, businesses that are minority- or women-owned, small to medium enterprises, service-disabled veteran-, or LGBTQ+owned, we are implementing diversity, while ensuring our supply chains are more resilient. Our supplier diversity programme involves bringing experts and suppliers with proven capability, from across a range of demographics to the table, who can provide innovation and alternative perspectives to our work.
Supporting our clients on their net-zero journey
The net-zero challenge
The construction industry contributes 40 percent of global greenhouse gases and it’s our responsibility, together with our clients, to minimise our impact and work towards creating a greener and more sustainable world. Our clients are increasingly focusing on embedding net-zero targets and prioritising decarbonisation in their day-to-day operations. Our team of experts are supporting this transition, partnering with clients on a range of solutions including data-driven frameworks and carbon accounting.
“We have an opportunity and a responsibility... as a business to help each of our clients and our industries to decarbonise and really make a difference.”
Imogen Large Director, Turner & Townsend
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