About this report — Creating a lasting legacy
This is Parsons Brinckerhoff Australia–Pacific’s second annual sustainability report. It discusses our operations in Australia and New Zealand1 for financial year 2009 (FY09), which ran from 1 November 2008 to 31 October 2009.
During the last weeks of our financial year our internal shareholders voted in support of the acquisition of PB by UK-based Balfour Beatty as a wholly owned subsidiary. The impacts this will have on our reporting include a change in our financial year in 2010, and the implications of now being owned by a publically listed company.
PB is a values-based organisation. As in our first report, this report’s title, Creating a lasting legacy, is taken from our vision statement, and our five values form its framework. Creating a lasting legacy is key to sustainability and is a theme embedded in our operations.
Our people and our clients are still our greatest stakeholders and it is important to us that this document is representative of PB. Therefore, we have also continued to use our vision and values to decide what has been included.
We have continued to use the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, which cover economic, social and environmental performance, and have been used by thousands of organisations worldwide as the basis for their sustainability reporting.
In our first report the ambition was not only to collect and benchmark data, but to give our people a chance to reflect on sustainability in the organisation and what it means to them. This report builds on last year’s experience, reporting against more indicators and in more depth.2
This year, to ensure transparency and guide us to greater veracity in our reporting, we have had our report verified by NetBalance. For more detail on the independent verification, click here.
Comments are welcome. Please contact either:
Darren Bilsborough
Director of Sustainability
dbilsborough@pb.com.au
Caroline Holmstrom
Sustainability Program Manager
cholmstrom@pb.com.au
1. Not all NZ data is available. It will be noted when it is not included.
2. How we have measured data is articulated in the body of the report and according to the specifics of the data.
