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MESSAGE FROM GENERAL MANAGER

Dear Stakeholders, stakeholders in a dialogue platform. By this means, we
As a pioneering company of Nurol Group of Companies founded introduced more organized tracking and management systems
in 1966, we achieved to take many innovative steps and success both for Nurol Construction and its subcontractors.
during more than half of a century period. We care supporting Under the responsible management perspective, we both value
our local and global experience in construction industry together our employees as we operate in labor intensive industry and
with innovative technology. Also, we want to continue our ethical exercises. On top of sharing our expectations and
journey with strong steps by the power of our vision, our working conditions upfront with our subcontractors, we also
corporate culture which is open to change and based on strong audit them considering social and environmental topics
principles. regularly. As we value occupational health and safety, we
As Nurol Construction, we achieved another milestone by being regularly track performance of our subcontractors. It is the
a signee of United Nations Global Compact Agreement, which is consequence of our training and audit e orts behind
a clear indicator of our e orts on sustainable development and occupational health and safety that our accident rate is low,
vision on compliance to global standards. Our objective by being although we are operating in a high-risk industry.
a supporter of UNGC – a volunteer organization supporting The essence of our foundation is contributing socially where
sustainable development and good corporate citizenship- is to we invest. Some of our projects contribute to irrigation thus
contribute to a shared culture both in construction industry and agriculture; some increase tourism and trading volume, while
business world on global principles and standards. In line with some contribute to industrial development including tourism
this objective, we feel justified proud and joy of releasing first by increasing the civilized transportation both inner state and
ever NUROL YES (Governance-Ecosystem-Social) report mainly upstate.
including our approach to these topics and our performance On top of that, we continuously focus on referred 3 priorities:
results which is in accordance with UNGC and GRI standards. I Solid Governance Structure, Protection of Ecosystem,
would like to take this occasion to thank all who contributed to Empowering Social dimension, to make the mentioned
the preparation of this report and who engaged to the improvements sustainable…
sustainability e orts. Under the scope of our report, we calculated greenhouse gas
We will continue to be in touch with our stakeholders via our emission,which is the main reason for global warming, first
sustainability reports where we share our performance. I want time ever in the scope of our report and started to manage it
to emphasize that; your improvement feedbacks matter for us. e ectively. We are striving for minimizing negative;
From the foundation day of our company, we continuously maximizing positive e ect of infrastructure and superstructure
spent e ort behind environment, working standards, fighting projects on environment. The ecological bridge we completed
against corruption; which are also core of our working principles. for Gebze – Orhangazi - İzmir Motorway Project, LEED
By being a signatory of UNGC, our goal is to be a part of world’s certification owned by Nurol Tower are the examples of our
most extensive platform on sustainability where we will have approach.
the opportunity to share best practices locally and globally; also, As a multinational and pioneering company of a rooted group
to reach related resources and experience to improve our own of companies, our objectives are showing progress vs prior
practices. years, leading the change, adopt higher ethical standards and
As the constructor of many buildings globally; we believe in internalize those company-wide, rise on the sustainable
the power of strong corporate structure and systems, which business model instead of showing seasonal up-rises,
will protect us against any headwinds, thus we care about increasing market share in current markets and entering new
working systems and right structuring. We are fully aware of markets, realizing projects behind innovative and creative
staying locally and globally strong is the main resource for models instead of doing business as usual. Besides, we target
making investments supporting development especially during to own higher degree of di culty projects where Nurol have
the trade wars, geopolitical risks, embargo, global economy competitive advantage on engineering, expertise, financial
agenda on exits from the unions, raw material cost increase power vs competition.
behind exchange shocks periods. As Nurol, we will be always committed to grow behind
It made a huge di erence to define our priorities, current creating value to industry, be supporter of sustainable
status, processes, performance and targets on Governance, development and UNGC, execute the best behind Governance,
Ecosystem and Social topics behind our sustainability vision Ecosystem and Social dimensions, and perform the best.
following the release of our report and sharing it with our

NURETTİN AKDENİZ
NUROL CONSTRUCTION
GENERAL MANAGER

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