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As an environmentally and socially conscious business, it is important to us that our customers, partners and staff know what we do and what we stand for. Here is how we deliver sustainability to your sites and work to drive positive change within the industry.
Sustainable Innovation
We innovate and develop solar and hybrid powered welfare and office units for leading UK construction and housebuilding firms, through our Oasis Welfare range. Using 4 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, we support companies in making the switch from diesel powered welfare units to Oasis units that incorporate renewable energy and drastically cut carbon emissions.
Oasis welfare units are completely self-contained and designed to have a positive impact on staff wellbeing, the community, and the environment. This is achieved by significantly reducing carbon, noise and costs relating to site welfare. Advanté plays a vital role during the early stages of construction by delivering sustainable welfare solutions that support our clients in achieving their net zero carbon aims.
Our latest solar and hybrid innovations have been recognised across the industry.
Reducing our Clients’ and Our Carbon Footprint
We have always been committed to reducing our clients’ and our own carbon footprint year on year by innovating low to zero carbon technologies and parts/materials for our existing and future fleet of units.
To monitor and reduce our company’s CO2 emissions, we calculate our Organisational Carbon Footprint in line with The Carbon Trust’s guidelines (2018). We measure carbon relative to each Oasis welfare unit hire, as a meaningful way to demonstrate our continued achievements in carbon reduction. Since 2008 we have reduced our average tonnes of CO2 per hire by over 50%.
Our latest Oasis EcoLogic Solar hybrid technology combined with large solar array provides an effective renewable electrical power supply to our welfare units. Our Oasis PowerStation supports zero emission tools and machinery, as well as electric vehicles being used on construction sites. Advanté also maintains the FORS Gold accreditation to further reduce emissions, fuel consumption and lessen environmental impact across our fleet of vehicles.
Our People – Our AdvanTEAM
Supporting our staff to do the things that matter to them is important to us. We have introduced a paid volunteering day in the local community for each member of staff, every year. We are also very proud to be a living wage employer.
As a Partner of the Supply Chain Sustainability School we worked collaboratively with other Partners to develop an industry framework to address workforce and supply chain challenges. This became the People Matter Charter, which we signed up to on it’s launch in January 2020.
Part of the Community
We work closely with our clients to ensure we respond to their requirements, now and in the future, with sustainable, legally compliant solutions. As a Partner of the Supply Chain Sustainability School, we select supply chain partners whose ethos and commitments align with ours and pro-actively develop these relationships to minimise any adverse impacts of our operations. We work with schemes that focus on positive community impact, including the Considerate Constructors Scheme.
Circular Economy
We run a circular economy model within the business. Materials and parts are recycled from renewable sources where possible to reduce our impact on the environment. Our fleet procurement policy is to recycle hire units by re-engineering hire stock for a second life after full re-manufacture to ‘as new’.
Giving Back
Staff at Advanté are offered a Volunteering Day every year and are encouraged to support local communities by working with charitable organisations or fundraising initiatives.
Havens Hospices: Advanté organises volunteering days with Havens Hospices – a charity that provides specialist care and support for people of all ages who are living with incurable conditions and their families.
WWF: Advanté supports the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) by encouraging supply chain partners, clients and staff to engage with the charity and help to make a difference. Throughout the year Advanté run incentives and events to highlight WWF activities and causes.
Hey Girls (Social Enterprise): Hey Girls kits are available to purchase with every Oasis welfare unit hire. For every one purchased, one is donated to someone in need.
Driving Positive Impact
“I am pleased with our progress this year based on our five strategy and performance pillars. Our ambitious goal of achieving Net Zero by 2050 is encouraging our teams to work with passion and pride, finding new ways to reduce our environmental impacts and delivering social value to the communities in which we operate.
Many of these achievements are shared in our ESGS report, including reducing our Scope 1 and 2 market based emissions by 26%. I continue to believe there are significant opportunities to help our customers, suppliers, and stakeholders to address the challenges of climate change and to deliver growth in the low carbon and circular economy.”
Mark Higson| Group Chief Executive Officer
