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Example of a major general contractor from German-speaking Switzerland

Publikationsdatum: 3. April 2025
Letzte Änderung: 3. April, 2025

This construction company in German-speaking Switzerland with around 7,000 employees had already successfully implemented various measures in corporate ecology and occupational health management. Due to an upcoming new strategy period, the company decided to systematise its commitment sustainability and set measurable targets. The subsequent analysis revealed the greatest potential in building certification, supply chain sustainability and accident reduction.

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Goal 1

By 2025, we will certify all our development projects according to established sustainability labels and strive for the highest certification requirements (e.g. SNBS, DGNB, SEED).

Measures

  • Sign the Swiss Building Label Charter and co-found the Association for Sustainable Neighbourhoods in Switzerland.
  • Evaluate the client's sustainability strategy and goals and develop a targeted and customer-focused sustainability concept for the construction project. This way, sustainability aspects are incorporated even where the client had not considered them.
  • Create decarbonisation strategy and minimum ecological standards for materials.

Goal 2

By 2025, at least 75% of our suppliers will have been assessed according to sustainability criteria and meet our increased requirements.

Measures

  • Develop systematic supplier management with a multi-stage qualification process.
  • Adopt purchasing guidelines applicable across the entire group and train all purchasing managers on these guidelines.
  • Increasingly assess business partners according to their social, ecological and economic performance and favour them accordingly.

Goal 3

By the end of 2025, we will reduce the Group-wide accident rate by at least 50% compared to the base year 2020.

Measures

  • Make health and safety a fixed item on the agenda at every Executive Committee meeting and ensure all business units are ISO 45001 certified with clearly defined responsibilities, regulations and processes.
  • Join the Health & Safety Working Group of the European construction industry network ENCORD and share information across company boundaries on this platform.
  • Launch a Health & Safety Award which honours three teams or individuals each year for outstanding achievements in occupational health and safety and introduce a Health & Safety Day, when all staff across all national borders and business units address the topic.

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