Positive Impact

An overview of our approach

When we talk of sustainability we mean maintaining the long term viability of our businesses by minimising our impacts on the natural environment. We believe that our operations, products and services should have a positive impact on the environment and that the environment is a key consideration in everything we do.

Fletcher Building advances sustainability by:

• Ensuring our products and services lead to better environmental efficiency in our customers' buildings and infrastructure
• Eliminating or minimising waste from our products, services and workplaces
• Finding and implementing economic energy-efficient solutions for our businesses

A range of strategies support our sustainability commitment, including the use of recycled materials as raw material and fuels, the use of renewable energy and the introduction of new technologies to provide energy to our industrial processes. We are also achieving greater energy efficiency through plant and equipment improvements.

Fletcher Building is involved the New Zealand Green Building Council, the Green Building Council of Australia and is a primary industry partner of the new Homestar© Residential Rating tool, which was launched in November 2010.

Owned by a Joint Venture of the NZ Green Building Council, BRANZ and Beacon Pathway, the tool is designed to help homeowners lift the performance of their homes.  Homes should not only be warm and comfortables place to live, but also provide a healthy living environment, use resources such as water and energy efficiently, and cost you as little as possible to run. 

Fletcher Building has an Executive Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Council chaired by CEO Jonathan Ling. This has been formed to provide direction and coordination to our continuing efforts to reduce our environmental footprint and to improve communications and effectiveness on these issues.