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ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

As Nurol Construction, we manage environmental impacts arising Making a positive contribution to UN’s sustainable development goals results in the Sustainability in Value Chain Management section of our Every day, we plan trainings to increase the competence of our teams,
from our activities, and implement various applications in order to determined in order to eliminate the urgent and important report. and ensure their participation in e ective seminars and meetings on
protect the environment and respect nature. As an integral part of our environmental problems facing our world constitutes the basis of our We develop waste management plans in line with the principle of sustainability issues. We employ environmental engineers and
culture, we care and support environmental sustainability. sustainability strategy. For this reason, clean water and sanitation, cradle to grave in all locations where we operate, and we include our environmental o cers in our teams. However, our point of view in this
We undertake that we aim to protect the environment in every are we accessible and clean energy, sustainable cities and communities plus subcontractors in these works to ensure the proper disposal of our regard is to bring this awareness to all our employees, not only to our
operate with our “Environmental Policy”, and we work in compliance climate action are among the most important goals we focus on. waste. We adopt a life cycle perspective in waste management and relevant teams. For this reason, we strived to implement projects on
with this policy. we manage waste, starting with the mobilization process, including environmental awareness issues in 2019. In particular, reducing waste
the warranty period of our projects. We create the waste water consumption, water and energy saving were among our priority
management infrastructure before our activities begin, and we issues.
determine our methods for the disposal of waste water according to We have not been subject to any significant sanction or penalty by the
the facilities of the location of the project. While organizing waste Provincial Directorate of Environment and Urbanization or other/local
management works, we carry out works in accordance with the waste administrations due to a non-compliance with environmental
hierarchy, and manage it in accordance with zero waste principles. We legislation in 2019. During our audits, we have found out no suppliers
continue our work with an understanding that can contribute to the that had significant negative impact on environment.
circular economy. In our Balıkesir Motorway Project, the amount of monetary penalty
According to our corporate culture, we believe that one of the most determined by Dolsar Company, which conducts audits on behalf of
important steps in our environmental management system is to the Principal Lenders, after the environmental and social audit reports
increase the consciousness and awareness of our employees on this for 2019 due to articles of nonconformity of subcontractor activities is
In all our projects, we determine and manage our environmental legal We have not been subject to any significant sanction or penalty issue. We endeavor to create competent teams to carry out and $7.500.
aspects with a proactive approach in order to reduce or completely by the Provincial Directorate of Environment and Urbanization or improve environmental practices in our headquarter and projects.
eliminate the environmental impacts caused by our activities. By other/local administrations due to a non-compliance with ENVIRONMENTAL TRAININGS
determining the potential environmental impacts that may occur environmental legislation in 2019,. During our audits, we have found
depending on these environmental aspects, we designate the out no suppliers that had significant negative impact on environment. Increasing the environmental awareness and consciousness of our trainings especially focus on how our employees can contribute to the
appropriate control methods for these e ects. We control our In our Balıkesir Motorway Project, the amount of monetary penalty employees and stakeholders that we work with will ensure that our reduction of waste and what they can do about water and energy
environmental impacts by developing activity plans for which determined by Dolsar Company, which conducts audits on behalf of corporate culture in this regard is further developed, and that savings. In our projects, trainings are given on environmental risks and
responsibilities and deadlines are set. Natural resource consumption, the Principal Lenders, after the environmental and social audit reports environmental sensitivity is reflected more e ectively in our way of precautions, environmental legislation, waste management, disposal
soil, water, air pollution, environmental dust, pollution from noise, for 2019 due to articles of nonconformity of subcontractor activities is doing business. For this reason, we attach great importance to the of chemical substances, environmental management in emergencies,
chemical consumption, waste production, greenhouse gas emission, $7,500. requirements and standards through corrective action environmental education process and try to increase the environmental accidents in addition to job-specific trainings.
natural disasters, and e ects on flora and fauna are among our systematics. We are working to carry out corrective actions that environmental awareness of our projects day by day. We also Alongside the responsibilities arising from our reporting process in
environmental dimensions stemming from our activities. We consider prevent the recurrence of the findings by reaching the root causes. We encourage our subcontractors and suppliers, who have significant 2019, sustainability trainings have been our priority. Trainings have
all our environmental aspects pointed out by legal requirements as also include issues that we think will create improvements in audits, e ects on our environmental performance, to participate in these been organized for senior management in order to raise awareness
important and apply the necessary control methods regarding these and we plan to carry out activities on the issues we have identified as works. We regularly monitor the environmental trainings of our about the environmental conditions that our stakeholders demand
dimensions. We update the “Environmental Aspects Risk opportunities for improvement. We have encouraged all our projects subcontractors through follow-up tables, and support them in this from us, and these trainings are targeted to be increased in the
Assessment” study, which we regularly review, in accordance with the for improvement e orts by including the goal of preparing an regard if needed. coming years. In 2019, 1252,75 person.hours of environmental training
activities and current situation. environmental improvement report in our 2019 annual target Annual training plans are prepared with the training needs analysis was provided in our reports and our headquarter.
As Nurol Construction, we manage the Environmental Management programs to increase environmental improvement works. In addition, we have conducted in our headquarter and projects. Environmental In our projects, our subcontractors are monitored through daily,
Systems Management, which we have established in line with ISO according to the scale of the project, environmental trainings, trainings are organized in accordance with the training plans. The weekly field tours and 2 party audits. The findings are followed up
nd
14001: 2015, according to the principle of continuous improvement, environmental field tours, organizing meetings with subcontractors foundation of our environmental trainings is built on waste according to the corrective action systematic, and in case the
while fulfilling the legal requirements in the countries where our on environmental issues, planning second-party audits on management and environmental awareness trainings given to our nonconformities are not remedied, warnings are given with an o cial
projects are located. In cases where the legal requirement in a environmental issues are included in the 2019 target programs. In this newly employed personnel within the scope of orientation. These letter , subject to administrative fines when necessary.
pertaining country has expectations lower than our system context, we have begun to hold quarterly meetings on environmental
requirement, we continue to implement environmental management issues in all of our projects, and the topics in the environmental
systems as a minimum. In line with our sustainability policy, we strive heading in the project are followed through these meetings.
to minimize environmental damage with a proactive approach in all We took important steps in 2019 to improve subcontractor ENVIRONMENTAL TRAININGS GIVEN IN 2019 CONSIST OF 1.253 PERSON.HOURS.
our processes. Therefore, we follow the changes in environmental performances, which have a major impact on our environmental
legislation and take our measures in accordance with the change. We performance. We plan audits and review their
conduct centralized up-to-date follow-up of legal environmental performances in order to ensure that ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING HOURS - 2019
requirements, provide information to all our teams our subcontractors and suppliers we work with are
in our projects on these issues and make able to monitor their environmental impact. We fully Total Training Hours Training Hour Per Employee
suggestions on how to implement the practices. control the compliance of the companies we work (employee.hour) (hour/employee)
Apart from legal and standard requirements, taking with with legal requirements and support them with
into account the expectations of our stakeholders in knowledge and experience to complement their Environmental Trainings
our projects, we also include our stakeholders in our shortcomings. In 2019, we increased our HQ 158,5 2,46
management system if our stakeholders have second-party audits and started to expand our audit
environmental expectations. teams so that they could be carried out in all our Balıkesir Motorway Project 250,75 1,21
We review our management system through projects. We have extensively provided the Eyiste Viaduct Project 120 1,37
internal audits that we carry out periodically, and information about the audits we conducted for our Boukhroufa Dam Project 462,5 2,05
follow up the environmental findings identified with subcontractors and suppliers and respective 2019
Souk Tleta Dam Project 261 1,15

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