The Public Works Authority (Ashghal), represented by the Roads Projects Department (RPD), has won the Business Intelligence Group’s Sustainability Leadership Award as part of its 2022 Sustainability Awards programme.
The US-based Business Intelligence Group honoured RPD’s Local Areas Infrastructure Programme in recognition of its perseverance in making sustainability an integral part of its business practice and overall mission and for leading the industry in these regards.
Engineer Saoud al-Tamimi, Ashghal’s Roads Project Department Manager, said: “The recognition has come for setting a good example in contributing to the environmental protection and creating a balance between economic growth and environment preservation as well as sharing the knowledge and best practices both locally and regionally, which has resulted in winning several international awards by some of the most prestigious institutions in the sector, to which International Sustainability Leadership Award is added.”
“We are proud to reward and recognise the Public Works Authority for their sustainability efforts,” said Maria Jimenez, chief nominations officer at the Business Intelligence Group. The Environment and Sustainability Monthly Report (ESMR) was implemented by Ashghal in 2019 as an innovative tool for accurately monitoring and reporting all construction materials as well carbon impacts and reductions. It allowed carbon footprint measurement against the conventional approach, resulting in a total carbon emissions reduction for 2021.
Ashghal has established strategically located construction material recycling yards to optimise resource efficiency. This has allowed processing and recycling of construction waste materials such as excavation materials, demolition and concrete waste, reclaimed asphalt from road upgrades as well as dewatering water.
Ashghal implemented a Recycling and Sustainability Key Performance Indicator (KPI) across all its projects mandating that completed construction works must include at least 20% recycled material. Ashghal overachieved this Key Performance Indicator with 40.71% and 12,784,148 tons of recycled material in 2021.
The US-based Business Intelligence Group honoured RPD’s Local Areas Infrastructure Programme in recognition of its perseverance in making sustainability an integral part of its business practice and overall mission and for leading the industry in these regards.
 Engineer Saud al-Tamimi |
Engineer Saoud al-Tamimi, Ashghal’s Roads Project Department Manager, said: “The recognition has come for setting a good example in contributing to the environmental protection and creating a balance between economic growth and environment preservation as well as sharing the knowledge and best practices both locally and regionally, which has resulted in winning several international awards by some of the most prestigious institutions in the sector, to which International Sustainability Leadership Award is added.”
“We are proud to reward and recognise the Public Works Authority for their sustainability efforts,” said Maria Jimenez, chief nominations officer at the Business Intelligence Group. The Environment and Sustainability Monthly Report (ESMR) was implemented by Ashghal in 2019 as an innovative tool for accurately monitoring and reporting all construction materials as well carbon impacts and reductions. It allowed carbon footprint measurement against the conventional approach, resulting in a total carbon emissions reduction for 2021.
Ashghal has established strategically located construction material recycling yards to optimise resource efficiency. This has allowed processing and recycling of construction waste materials such as excavation materials, demolition and concrete waste, reclaimed asphalt from road upgrades as well as dewatering water.
Ashghal implemented a Recycling and Sustainability Key Performance Indicator (KPI) across all its projects mandating that completed construction works must include at least 20% recycled material. Ashghal overachieved this Key Performance Indicator with 40.71% and 12,784,148 tons of recycled material in 2021.
