 Seeking
continual environmental improvement in our operations is a key element
of our business strategy. In our drive for ever better environmental
performance, each year we develop new environmental initiatives and
continue on-going work for those already in place. For each initiative,
we set ourselves a challenging target to achieve within a set timeframe.
In this way, we demonstrate our progress on the environmental front
of our operations.
In the coming year, we intend to make use of every opportunity to
reduce our environmental impacts and enhance the quality of the living
environment we provide. Through our initiatives we will encourage,
influence, guide and work with others to become firmly involved in
the shared responsibility of environmental protection. Our future
initiatives and targets for the coming year and beyond are laid out
in detail in Annex C. Below, we give a summary of how we will focus
our efforts.
We will work more closely with our contractors to |
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Ensure reductions in water wastage in building,
piling and civil engineering works. |
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Reduce the amount of construction and demolition
waste produced. |
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Take further steps to reduce noise nuisance
from our building and piling works. |
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Strengthen their waste management plans. |
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| We will continue to support and facilitate our residents
to |
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Increase recovery rates of paper, aluminium
cans, plastic bottles and used- clothes for recycling. |
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Reduce the amount of domestic waste produced
in estates. |
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| We will continue our own work and work with green groups
and other organisations to arrange and promote environmental awareness-raising
campaigns, competitions and activities for residents. Together, we
will |
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Foster more active participation in environmental
protection such as waste recycling and reduction. |
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Encourage environmentally conscious living in
the home. |
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| We will continue to enhance our staff's environmental
management expertise and environmental awareness by |
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Providing training and awareness-raising seminars
on enhancements to our Environmental Management System. |
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Promoting environmentally friendly work processes
and enhancing understanding of the environmental issues. |
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| We will continue to enhance the community's living
environment by |
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Providing more greenery in estates, more green
treatment to slopes and more landscaping. |
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Making the building installations in estates
quieter. |
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Continuing work to eliminate asbestos from our
estates. |
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Tracking and improving air quality in shopping
centres. |
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| To minimise our use of energy and resources in our
buildings, we will continue with initiatives to |
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Reduce water leakage and wastage in our estates. |
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Improve energy efficiency of lighting and building
service installations in estates, carparks and shopping centres. |
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Increase the environmental friendliness of our
building designs and materials. |
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