Ausenco embeds sustainability principles directly into project design and execution.
Delivering large-scale projects today means facing a maze of sustainability commitments, complex permit conditions, and growing scrutiny from stakeholders and Indigenous communities. These challenges often translate into delays, compliance risks, or costly contractor claims if not managed effectively.
Ausenco’s sustainability approach was developed to solve these challenges. Our team integrates sustainability directly into project execution, translating high-level commitments into clear, practical actions.
Tailored to each project, our services are based on our clients’ sustainability risks and the needs of stakeholders and communities. Sustainability is integrated into the Project Execution Plan (PEP), procurement process and contracts. Scalable and adaptable, our approach enhances project performance, reduces risks, strengthens permitting defensibility, creates shared value and boosts investor confidence through robust oversight and accountability.
Our sustainability approach includes:
- Converting environmental permit conditions, social commitments, investor requirements, corporate policies, and sustainability standards into clear, measurable actions during construction
- Creating shared value through meaningful engagement and local economic participation (e.g., community investment, local procurement and hiring, benefit-sharing, and equity participation arrangements)
- Developing and implementing a sustainability management plan into the project execution plan
- Aligning sustainability commitments with internationally recognized standards, such as International Finance Corporation’s Performance Standards and the Equator Principles
- Sustainability integration into vendor and contractor scopes of work/contracts and tracking their performance against sustainability metrics
- Review and approval of Construction Environmental and Social Management Plans (CESMPs)
- Communicating and transferring metrics and lessons learned into project operations
- Tracking and monitoring project and contractor performance against sustainability KPIs using our real-time SCORE (Sustainability, Compliance, Oversight, Responsibility, Excellence) dashboard. We consolidate data across key indicators like fuel and energy use, water withdrawal, waste volumes, local employment, number and resolution of incidents, and community grievance response.