SUSTAINABILITY
The Mannok Environmental Team collects Biodiversity Award from Dr. Lisa McIl- venna of Business in the Community.
Mannok CEO Liam McCaffrey, Operations Director Kevin Lunney, and Chief Financial Director Dara O’Reilly with their hat trick of awards.
MANNOK HELP “KICK THE CARBON” AND PICK UP HAT TRICK OF AWARDS FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE... Business and construction sectors praise Mannok’s sustainabilitymessage
M annok recently added three awards to its growing award collection in recognition of the company’s achievements in business excellence, innovation, sustainability leadership and biodiversity. The first win for the NI-based company came in September when Mannok was named one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies. The prestigious programme is renowned as the premier business management awards across the island of Ireland and part of the global Best Managed standard. Mannok received the honour, having demonstrated superior
business performance, strong leadership and resilience, organisational excellence, and an entrepreneurial approach. Within weeks, Mannok had picked up a second high-profile award, this time in recognition of the company’s commitment to biodiversity, sustainability leadership and its focus on benefiting the local community through its environmental initiatives. Business in the Community announced Mannok had achieved Silver Accreditation in the Business and Biodiversity Charter, a symbol of responsible business practice and commitment to improve biodiversity conservation. Pertinently, the announcement was made at the launch of the company’s biodiversity roadmap, its Natural Assets Action Plans (NAAP), a comprehensive and forward-thinking biodiversity report produced by Mannok’s Environmental Team in partnership with Ulster Wildlife. The NAAP were developed to roadmap the conservation, restoration and enhancement of every area of Mannok’s 2,000 acres of land to help the company achieve its ambitious sustainability targets. Mannok kick-started the enhancement of its land by planting 600 native Scots Pine trees during UK Construction Week in October. While exhibiting at the Birmingham-based event, Mannok connected via live video link to an
area of land at Crievehill Quarry in Co. Tyrone, which they have dedicated as a carbon-offsetting site. The Mannok team planted each tree for the visitors to the company’s stand in a live and interactive drive to “Kick The Carbon”. The widely praised initiative earned Mannok the Best Sustainability Initiative award at UK Construction Week, completing the hat trick of recent awards. Speaking at the event, Kevin Lunney, Mannok’s Operations Director commented, “The message we are getting is we must be sustainable, and our products must be sustainable. For our staff and community at large it is an extremely important message, and it will be our key message for the next ten years: that we have a sustainable business in all its capacities, in terms of our people, planet and partners. “Our Natural Assets Action Plans have been very well received locally and across the UK. It has been very exciting to develop these in conjunction with Ulster Wildlife, who have guided and directed us in terms of the correct way to approach the whole biodiversity and carbon capture space. We have a number of projects coming out of that including tree planting and rewilding in the various land assets that will see the biodiversity of the whole business improve dramatically over the next ten years.”
The Mannok team celebrates winning Best Sustainability Initiative.
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