Strategic objective:
To regularly engage and seek feedback from external stakeholders
on sustainability issues that result from our business operations.
Building strong relationships with our key stakeholders is critical to achieving our vision of sustainability excellence.
Industry
We take an active role in advocating for a more sustainable property sector by regularly engaging with a wide range of industry and policy makers. We have a number of memberships with key green building and industry associations and we participate in public forums.
In addition to this, a number of senior managers at Mirvac hold positions on industry boards, roundtables, and committees. Through these industry bodies Mirvac keeps abreast of, and contributes to, industry‑wide discussions, ensuring sustainability remains a top priority.
Government
Mirvac and its business operations are subject to compliance with both Federal and State environment protection legislation. These include the Energy Efficiency Opportunities ("EEO") Act, the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting ("NGER") Act 2007 ("NGER") and the commercial Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Act ("BEED") Act.
Community
Across our business we have contributed to a number of community initiatives including the London Benchmarking Group, NeighbourhoodNet, the Plastiki, CEO Sleepout, Movember and others. In addition to these activities we have also been developing national in-house guidelines to enhance our internal processes by providing a consistent approach to community engagement and consultation across our masterplanned communities.
Investors
Mirvac believes sustainability performance should be an important consideration for investors, and we continue to improve the level of sustainability information provided to investors through regular communications.
Customers
We value our customers and recognise the important role they play in achieving long term sustainability.
Looking Forward
Some of our key actions for 2012 are:
- > Develop a consistent approach to community engagement and consultation for all masterplanned community projects
- > Develop innovative ideas to inform existing and potential customers of sustainable design features of Mirvac buildings
- > Implement generic green lease clauses endorsed by Mirvac Legal
- > Implement a project to engage with Mirvac's key tenancies to achieve joint sustainability outcomes
- > Map how information is communicated to our external stakeholders across various business units
- > Streamline the provision of sustainability information to stakeholders to encourage and promote sustainability excellence
- > Continue to research Mirvac's residential customers to understand changing demographic characteristics and preferences in terms of sustainable design
- > Plan employee participation in a Mirvac sponsored charity or community day
- > Engage with industry and government by representing Mirvac in line with Mirvac's goal of Sustainability Excellence
- > Host internal events, inviting key speakers from industry and Mirvac's investors
- > Develop processes to embed the UNPRI into the business
To read more about how we engage with our external stakeholders including: Industry, Government, Funding, Community, Investors, and Customers, download the full 'External Stakeholders' section of our 2011 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report below.
