Laing

Within John Laing, we recognise the need to respect and protect the natural environment, and to control our activities that have the potential to cause environmental harm. John Laing strives to work in a socially responsible manner by encouraging an understanding of our environmental aspects and impacts, and ensuring that our landholdings are managed in a way that is sympathetic to the needs of flora and fauna, promoting and wherever feasible, enhancing local biodiversity.

We aim to promote environmental awareness to not only our own people, but also those stakeholders affected by our activities and this one example of how this has beenrealised is through the involvement of teachers and pupils in those schools which we manage, together with individuals' involvement in environmental initiatives.

We continue to support a number of environmental charities, particularly in localities where we undertake work, allowing us to engage with local communities and foster relationships for shared mutual benefit.

The case study below is an excellent example of John Laing employees identifying opportunities in their local communities in which they work or live, to support local wildlife and the environment. The bird ringing project has resulted in an impressed variety of species being ringed, including seven from a list of 22 species identified by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) as being in 'rapid decline'.