Our commitment to sustainable environmental, social and governance.
Sustainability Strategy 2024-2025
Our purpose is to create beautiful spaces through design excellence. Delivering healthy and functional workspaces through environmental and social values.
OUR ESG Commitment
Environment
Commitment
To conduct our activities in full consideration of our environmental responsibilities whilst delivering purposeful beautiful ergonomic designs for clients.
Aspiration
Advocate the importance of environmental sustainability with our clients, employees and community to positively impact everything we do.
Aspect
Material efficiency
Waste management
Energy & carbon management
Climate impact
Visible performance
FY 2024-2025 Goals
Effectively engage with suppliers to better understand our embodied carbon baseline
Identify and measure waste footprint
Continually improve data visibility for business and clients
Investigate and measure Scope 1,2 and 3 emissions to validate Growth’s absolute emissions
Develop and implement a strategy to achieve carbon reduction
Raise cultural awareness and communicate sustainability initiatives and outcomes externally to drive positive change to clients’ commercial fit-out and design
FY 2024-2025 Targets
Reduce embodied carbon footprint by 5%
Develop and implement a data reporting platform that captures at least 90% of measurable data
Achieve target of 90% visibility of embodied and operational carbon footprint
Achieve absolute carbon reduction by 10%
Be recognised as a leader in driving environmental sustainability solutions to deliver environmental performance
Social
Commitment
To enhance the safety, well-being, diversity and inclusion in our workplace to allow our people to be their best and seek to enrich the prosperity of our stakeholders through meaningful contributions.
Aspiration
Embrace a healthy, safe, diverse, and inclusive culture that promotes employee worth and strengthens stakeholder relationships to promote engagement and value-based outcomes.
Aspect
Social inclusion
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
Mental health & physical well-being
Local and social procurement
Attract, retain and reward employees
FY 2024-2025 Goals
Enhance Growth’s employment engagement and support community charities
Increase participation of women across the business (incl. senior leadership)
Diversify the talent pipelines, improve outcomes for underrepresented groups & increase the diversity of thinking
Support our people to stay fit, healthy and resilient
Continually improve Growth’s procurement and support for local goods and services
Foster a culture that attracts and retains people and encourages them to reach their full potential
FY 2024-2025 Targets
Create the Growth Foundation to maximise community engagement programs
Maintain 50% gender equality in the workplace
Implement a Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Policy
Implement a mental and well-being foundations program
Implement a safe day program
Achieve at least 90% visibility of local and social investment
Implement succession planning to allow talented people to reach their potential, including transitioning to Gold Leadership and C-Suite levels
Governance
Commitment
To focus on responsible capacity building within the business, strengthen inclusive stakeholder partnerships and achieve high governance performance standards.
Aspiration
Guide employees’ actions and behaviours in a way consistent with Growth’s values to create value through transparency and high standards of corporate governance.
Aspect
Stakeholder engagement
Data reporting to demonstrate transparent performance
ISO Certification
Alignment to leading policy and standards.
FY 2024-2025 Goals
Engage and stay relevant with internal and external stakeholders
Create a mutually respectful and inclusive forum for product, design and innovation
Track and report on all data dimensions to demonstrate sustainability performance
Continually improve management systems to move towards ISO Triple Certification
Include sustainability performance as a standing Board agenda item to identify and implement leading policies and standards.
FY 2024-2025 Targets
Implement succession planning to allow talented people to reach their potential, including transitioning to Gold Leadership and C-Suite levels
Develop and implement a stakeholder ESG register
Develop a program that reduces ESG risk to the business
Hold at least one forum per month
Implement an energy and material consumption tracking program
Achieve ISO triple certification by 2024
Discuss sustainability performance at 100% of Board level meetings
