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ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS







          In line with our corporate culture, we monitor and manage our   reflections. In our projects where the legal requirements of the   ENVIRONMENTAL TRAININGS
          environmental impacts in all our projects. In this context; we assess   country, in which we have projects, are inadequate according to the
          the environmental impacts of our projects and apply the necessary   requirements of Nurol Construction Environmental Management
          control methods by the evaluation of the e ect. Starting from the   System or infrastructure problems related to environmental control   Maintaining our activities in harmony with the natural life, not   awareness by conducting training needs analysis once a year.
          planning stage of our projects, we try to predict the e ects. We   measures are experienced; we expect implementation of our system   adversely a ecting the environment and taking the necessary   We share the basic information about the trainings on environment
          reflect the results proactively on operational decisions of the   requirements in the project and we follow the issue closely.  actions in this context are basically stemming from increasing the   and other subjects in our HQ and projects in 2018 as below
          projects.                                                                                                              awareness of our employees and suppliers. For our HQ and projects,   breakdown:
                                                                We supervise our subcontractors and suppliers on environmental   environmental trainings are planned to improve environmental
          For environmental awareness improvement of our employees, we   issues by defined plans and give support to improve their
          continue to focus on raising awareness in our projects every year. We   environmental performance. Besides, we question the requirements
          aim to improve environmental awareness of our employees and   of all the environmental legislations and provide the necessary   TRAINING HOURS ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES - 2018
          make the issue a part of our culture and reflect to our way of doing   support to eliminate any deficiencies.                                                    Total Training Hours               Training Hour Per Employee
          business.
                                                                By analyzing the project activities and sites, we prepare waste                                            (employee.hour)                       (hour/employee)
          We comply with environmental regulations, as we all do for legal   management plans and realize accordingly. Including the   Environmental Trainings
          regulations. We implement sustainability policies e ectively in all   subcontractors into this process, we closely monitor their waste
          our processes and support preventive approaches that will not harm   management activities and provide operational support in case of   HQ                           277,93                                4,03
          the environment. For this purpose; we closely monitor the changes in   need.
          environmental laws and share the changes with our relevant                                                             Balıkesir Motorway Project                   558,18                                 1,79
          employees. Besides, we reflect any changes to our practices. We also   We have provided the information about the audits we conducted for   Eyiste Viaduct Project     165                                    1
          inform the relevant subcontractors and suppliers and monitor   our subcontractors and suppliers and respective 2018 results in the
                                                                Sustainability in Value Chain section of the report.             Boukhroufa Dam Project                       323,65                                 1,84
                       Nurol Construction and Trading Co. Inc. aimed at the protection of natural environment, while conducting its   Souk Tleta Dam Project                  400,50                                 2,41
                     production activities at top quality level. In this respect, we confirm that we will realize the principles given-below,   All Trainings
                          related with the environment we borrowed from future generations, in every area we have activities:
                                                                                                                                 HQ                                          6.250,75                               90,59
                                                                                                                                 Balıkesir Motorway Project                  16.014,15                              36,58
                                                                                                                                 Eyiste Viaduct Project                        3960                                   24

                                                                                                                                 Boukhroufa Dam Project                       3.737,83                              16,238
                                                                                                                                 Souk Tleta Dam Project                      1.339,00                                4,83
                To prevent air,        To comply with the         To provide execution       In situations when
                 water, soil             legal legislation        of design activities      conditions cannot be
                pollution in a         about environment,           with minimum               interfered, not                   In 2018, we were not subject to any significant sanctions or penalties for non-compliance to environmental legislation. During our audits, we did
                 continuous              administrative             environmental            participating in the
                improvement            regulations and the             a ects,              production activities                not coincide any suppliers that had significant negative impact on the environment.
                  manner,               rules that should                                     which may have                     In the scope of this section, we are sharing the activities we carried out with respect to our environmental awareness under the subheadings of
                                       naturally be obeyed,                                significant and negative               energy and emission management, water and waste-water management, waste management and biodiversity.
                                                                                           e ects on environment,
                                                                                                                                 ENERGY AND EMISSION MANAGEMENT


                                                                                                                                 During the environmental impact analysis of our projects, we define   Dust emissions are generated from concrete plants and quarries. In
                                                                                                                                 all sources of our emissions and take under control, by following the   this context; we regularly monitor particulate matter 10 (PM10) and
                                                                                                                                 necessary legal permission processes.                 collapsible dust values. We take a series of preventive measures to
                                                                                                                                 As a result of activities such as asphalt plant, beam casting area,   prevent dusting at our sites. Dust barriers, pumper use, pulverized
                                                                                                                                 greenhouse gas emissions occur in our motorway projects. We   systems are among these measures.
                 Within the           To share the acquired      In scope of production        To provide the                    monitor our emissions for asphalt plants and incorporate them into   In addition to dust emissions, we also have fossil fuel utilization for
                framework of             environmental            activities, to spend       necessary training                  legal authorization processes. Emissions occur from the steam   transportation and heating; energy consumption and greenhouse
                 engineering            experiences with         excessive emphasis on         and education
               principles, using      public, private sector     the utilizing of natural   programs for bringing                boilers at beam casting sites. Referred emissions are not subject to   gas emission resulting from electricity consumption. Referred energy
                environment             corporations and         resources in the most      all our sta , suppliers              emission permits for the projects in our country, but we still carry out   consumption and the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from
               friendly inputs          non-governmental           e ective way, the        and subcontractors to                measurements.                                         these consumptions are given below.
               throughout our             organizations           provisions of source      the required level of
                  activities,               mutually,            saving and recycling,         environmental
                                                                                               consciousness.

                 Nurol Construction has certified its environmental management with ISO 14001: 2015 Environmental Management System



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