ABSTRACT
Managing sustainability requires deploying specific tools and procedures but all these come to nothing if one critical underpinning factor is not dealt with first. This is people: specifically you and your colleagues. What you do and how you do it matters, but it does not matter as much as how well you do it. Murray Coleman suggested sustainability should be at the core of an organisation and not as an appendage. Louise Perry, Group Sustainability Manager at Carillion, a builder, told me how Carillion started paying attention to sustainability since 1994 and over the years, integrated sustainability into overall business objectives. This ensured that all construction projects have detailed sustainability actions plans that implements the corporate strategy at a local level.
