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CIMIC Group Limited Annual Report 2016 |
Sustainability Report
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INNOVATING TO DELIVER PROJECTS
Measures in place
Actions during 2016
Performance
- Comprehensive risk management
framework in place based on ISO
31000:2009
- EIC Activities implemented best practice
‘Webinar Wednesday’ series aimed at
education regarding risks and
opportunities, sharing best practice and
highlighting emerging technologies
- EIC Activities provided training and
webinars to over 1,100 participants
during 2016
- Comprehensive quality management
systems in place based on ISO
9001:2008
- Launched new interactive Project
Knowledge Library (iPKL)
- iPKL captures details of over 1,900
projects including 252 case studies
- EIC Activities structured to provide
training and advice in digital
engineering
- Trained 215 employees in the use of
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
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and Geographic Information System
(GIS)
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- BIM and GIS used on 168 projects
- Innovation embedded in the Group’s
Principles
- Issued Sustainability Policy which
supports the adoption and delivery of
appropriate industry rating schemes
and standards that drive sustainability
outcomes for clients
- CPB Contractors continues to be
Australia’s leading sustainability
contractor having 16 projects registered
or certified by Infrastructure
Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA)
- 14 Green Standard
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projects registered
in 2016 and 6 projects verified
- 54 Green Star
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rated building projects
completed since 2007
- $2.1 billion of revenue generated from
CPB Contractors’ sustainably rated or
‘green’ projects
OUR APPROACH
One of the Group’s four Principles is Innovation. For CIMIC, innovation means challenging conventional practices and adopting to new
technologies, proactively investing for the future, sharing knowledge and learning from mistakes. In today’s highly competitive
environment, our clients depend on our use of innovative technology and business systems to deliver operational excellence and to
pioneer new and better ways to overcome challenges. By working closely with clients, partners, suppliers and subcontractors, we solve
tomorrow’s problems today through world-class expertise, management and quality.
Innovation is a mindset that questions and imagines what’s possible. Innovation is about creating a flexible and collaborative
environment where our people are encouraged to challenge and change their current work practices, and add value to whatever they do.
We recognise that, essentially, there are two types of innovation: incremental and transformational. Incremental innovation happens all
day, every day – it is about continuous improvement. As we strive to deliver our clients’ needs more effectively and efficiently, we focus
on improving client service, work practices, productivity and re-engineering processes. These are all valuable but, alone, they do not
achieve sustainable competitive advantage – they just keep us in the game.
Transformational, disruptive or game-changing innovation comes from creating products and services that no-one has yet developed.
Over our history we have challenged what we do, the services we provide, the markets we serve, and even our core competencies, but
our future depends on continuing to find a compelling reason to exist. We must continually ask ourselves – are we doing today what we
need to do in order to be relevant tomorrow?
ENCOURAGING INNOVATION
EIC Activities is CIMIC Group’s engineering business. It provides specialist design, technical support, research and technology for Group
projects and enhances the Group’s ability to mitigate and manage risk. EIC Activities delivers solutions, capability and innovation in the
disciplines of infrastructure, industrial, building and specialist design for projects tendered and delivered by the Group. EIC Activities
supports its capability through other technical groups within the ACS Group, including HOCHTIEF, Dragados and Turner. The EIC name
stands for Engineering, Innovation and Capability.
During the year, EIC Activities launched its interactive Project Knowledge Library (iPKL). Custom built by EIC Activities, with a user friendly
interface and powerful search function, iPKL holds key data from 1,500 past civil, building and process plant projects. iPKL gives tender
and project teams access to technical and operational knowledge from successful projects. iPKL holds project execution resources
(workpack documents), project data sheets, lessons learned, case studies, innovations, technical papers, awards, images and pre-contract
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BIM - a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility.
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GIS is designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, manage, and present spatial or geographical data.
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Includes the ISCA and Greenroads rating systems for infrastructure projects, and the Green Star and LEED rating systems for building projects.
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Green Star is Australia's only national and voluntary rating system for buildings and communities and was launched by the Green Building Council of
Australia (GBCA) in 2003.
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