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It has been a pleasure to be the London Gatwick Expert for the 2024 VINCI Environment Awards and coordinate 3 entries that, of 69 submissions across the UK, all shortlisted to the top 15 to be celebrated yesterday. And to top it all off, during yesterday’s regional ceremony, we got a win! We celebrated our innovative approach to runway resurfacing, which avoided 6000 tonnes of wasted asphalt and a consequent 2000 tonnes embodied CO2e. A huge congratulations to Vlad Mihovilovic, Peter McCarthy and the whole team. Also recognised were our Biodiversity Action Plan, which has led to an increase in butterflies, reptiles and bats in our biodiversity areas (Darcey Haldar) and our innovative approach to improving access safety through reusing asphalt plannings, which prevented 350 tonnes of landfill and avoided 2.7 tonnes of CO2e (Chris Boyle FCIHT) It was wonderful to have Pierre Anjolras and Isabelle Spiegel celebrating our nominees and demonstrating the VINCI commitment to “local solutions, global impact”. The Vinci Environment Awards celebrate and empower real projects from across the network, and I am very proud of all of the continuous efforts across London Gatwick to achieve our Decade of Change sustainability goals. A huge congratulations to all of the nominees and winners, it has been great fun participating in the Expert Panel for the UK and I look forward to supporting the Global tranche of the awards. Thank you and well done to Tom Jones and Olivia Wilkes for a great regional awards! Steve Kelso George Vernon-Hunt Cédric LAURIER
Congrats Ania! Hope you are well.
Chief Technical Officer at London Gatwick Airport
2moThe United Kingdom is the second country in the Vinci group. I was once again impressed by the quality of our submissions. Our business units have many scalable and replicable initiatives, not only within our sectors but across all of the group's activities. Sustainability is so Important and integrated in the Vinci airports network. Very proud of the award given to London Gatwick's engineering and construction teams. Well done!