Nicole Neal is a sustainability practitioner, leader, advocate and mentor in the infrastructure & construction sector
Well, I’ve been on the move a bit in recent weeks, so it has been a bit of time between posts here I’m afraid. Plenty of time for reflections and general mulling however, and I have a few topics logged in the brain to share with you over the coming weeks. One of these musings... Continue Reading →
I thought it would be a good time to offer a brief update on the sustainability strategy setting process that I’ve been working on with Aveng Group recently. It has been about three months since my last post on the subject (how time flies!) and we’re now nearing the end of this initial phase, so... Continue Reading →
I attended an industry event recently that got me thinking. Aren’t they always supposed to do that?, I hear you say. Well, yes they are really, but not all of them do….. Anyway, this one got me thinking not because of what some brilliant young engineer was saying, or some greatly experienced infrastructure so-called heavyweight... Continue Reading →
One of the important parts, and really quite enjoyable parts, of my role as a Corporate Sustainability Manager is my active involvement in sustainability industry groups – groups, committees, associations or other collectives of like-minded professionals seeking to drive change and seek more sustainable outcomes in industry. In fact, I’ve always been involved in industry... Continue Reading →
For those I'm connected with on LinkedIn chances are you may have seen this news already (apologies!), but I thought an achievement such as McConnell Dowell (in its Australian operations at least) becoming Signatories to the UN Global Compact was well worth noting here on my blog. What is the UN Global Compact anyway? The... Continue Reading →
It's easy sometimes, I think, for we sustainability professionals to believe that the good majority of people in broader business and society have an understanding of sustainability, what it is and all that it encompasses. The concept, or the word at least, is ubiquitous these days. And those of us that work within the sphere... Continue Reading →
For today's post I thought I'd introduce the first of a series of brief posts on the process I'm currently working through with the Aveng Group - this is the development of the Group's first serious and genuine sustainability strategy, or rather more accurately the integrated sustainability pillar of the overarching organisational strategy. So what have been... Continue Reading →
Sustainability. It’s a term that’s seemingly bandied about everywhere these days. But what does this term “sustainability” even mean? That’s a common question among many and can still be relatively confusing in some ways (even amongst a group of sustainability professional peers recently devising a sustainability narrative for our industry proved not to be the... Continue Reading →
Aside from making the quantified dollars and cents business case for embracing sustainability as a broad concept or specific sustainability initiatives on an infrastructure construction project for example (which is obviously extremely important!), there are other important considerations in terms of your approach to keep in mind: Sustainability does not have to cost more. Value... Continue Reading →
As I mentioned in my previous blog post I was particularly interested and moved by one of the excellent presentations given at the recent ISCA Annual Conference. This presentation, delivered by Liz Root , Principal Sustainability Advisor, Auckland Transport and Berenize Peita, Ngāti Te Ata Waiohua, Mana Whenua Representative, was an outline of the initial phases of the City Rail... Continue Reading →
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