{"id":3090,"date":"2017-05-25T10:23:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noyon.themesteel.com\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:23:58","slug":"balfour-beatty-leads-way-to-sustainable-procurement-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nt.stdahs.edu.mn\/?p=3090&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Balfour Beatty leads way to sustainable procurement standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<p>ISO 20 400 has been in development since 2013 involving organisations from 40 countries. By implementing the standard and completing the assessment, Balfour Beatty has demonstrated that it has a sustainable procurement strategy in place.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Reid, head of sustainable procurement at Balfour Beatty, said: \u201cWe are extremely proud to be the first company in the world assessed against ISO 20400. The standard gives us a clear framework to determine \u2018what good looks like\u2019 in terms of sustainable procurement and how we compare against it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe assessment itself was robust, practical and coherent. It held a mirror up to us as a business, enabling us to uncover areas of existing good practice to be shared and areas for improvement to focus upon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaun McCarthy, director of Action Sustainability and chair of the Supply Chain School, said: \u201cSocietal expectations for supply chains to minimise impact on the environment and respect human rights are at a tipping point. In response, ISO 20 400 sets out a strategic framework for achieving sustainability and value for organisations competing in a global market. Procurement professionals and their stakeholders need to step up to this sustainability challenge and the standard provides a global framework for doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that Balfour Beatty was leading the way on the issue worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISO 20 400 has been in development since 2013 involving organisations from 40 countries. By implementing the standard and completing the assessment, Balfour Beatty has demonstrated that it has a sustainable procurement strategy in place.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Reid, head of sustainable procurement at Balfour Beatty, said: \u201cWe are extremely proud to be the first company in the world assessed against ISO 20400. The standard gives us a clear framework to determine \u2018what good looks like\u2019 in terms of sustainable procurement and how we compare against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-53"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nt.stdahs.edu.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nt.stdahs.edu.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nt.stdahs.edu.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nt.stdahs.edu.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nt.stdahs.edu.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nt.stdahs.edu.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nt.stdahs.edu.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nt.stdahs.edu.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nt.stdahs.edu.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nt.stdahs.edu.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}