Amey’s five-year strategy looks at how the firm can design, deliver and maintain infrastructure that “actively supports nature”.

Infrastructure firm Amey has launched a new strategy committing it to placing “biodiversity and ecological resilience at the core of its operations”.

The five-year strategy looks at how the firm will design, deliver and maintain infrastructure that “actively supports nature” and helps clients meet their sustainability goals.

Its work across transport, defence and justice sectors is covered by the firm that manages roads, buildings and bridges across the UK.

To support the strategy Amey has signed the Nature Positive Business Pledge, a peer-reviewed framework for transparent reporting.

It has also linked up with green alliance Rebuilding Nature, and the Supply Chain Sustainability School.

Priorities include embedding ecological screening and risk assessments into all its project designs and training staff and suppliers on biodiversity risk.

It will also look to integrate ecologists through secondments into its operations and those of partners.

“Protecting biodiversity has always been important to us, but this strategy gives Amey a clear framework to deliver measurable impact,” said Amey’s ESG director Emily Davies.

“As one of the UK’s largest infrastructure providers, we have a responsibility to design and deliver projects that enable nature to thrive.”

She added: “By embedding nature-positive principles into everything we do, we can create infrastructure that serves communities, protects the environment, and is fit for the future.”

The strategy includes findings of a survey of employees carried out earlier this year which found that just under nine in ten felt biodiversity was important to them.

Seven in ten agreed that having a nature positive strategy was important and a similar proportion felt biodiversity was relevant to their day-to-day work.

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