The world is expected to invest around US$90 trillion in infrastructure over the next 15 years. These investments are needed to replace aging infrastructure in advanced economies and accommodate higher growth and structural changes in emerging markets and developing countries.
Sustainability means that we, as a business, have a responsibility to ensure that the infrastructure that we create is compatible with social and environmental goals. The investment choices made globally in relation to infrastructure will start to lock in for decades to come; either a climate resilient, future-proofed infrastructure pathway or a high-carbon, ineffcient and unsustainable pathway which will exacerbate climate change.
Our teams are already working on a wide range of sustainable infrastructure projects and we are at the forefront of research and development in relation to future-proofng and the development of smart cities
We base our core Business Strategy around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), placing our business model in line with a global imperative to ‘leave no one behind’. These goals are a concerted effort by the international community to address pressing issues such as climate change, unfettered energy consumption, inequality, health and wellbeing, and a lack of clean water and sanitation.