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Building excellence through
energy management

As a business we’re committed to protecting the environment around us. Our efficient use of
energy will not only help us reduce our carbon emissions, it will enable us run our sites in the most
sustainable way, which benefits both Sisk as a business and the communities we serve.

To help us reduce our The Energy Forum quarter of 2015 it was at ¤1.2million.
energy consumption we’re In the case of the latter of these
adopting the workings of In order to utilize the extensive two, the figure is a result of a
Energy Management System ISO skills base that already exists number of new projects starting
50001. This specifies requirements at Sisk, an in-house Energy up leading to higher energy usage.
for establishing, implementing Forum, made up of HSEQS/MEP The Energy Team will continue to
and maintaining an energy representatives from each business monitor this trend through 2015
management system, and it will unit, has been established (see using our Energy Performance
enable us to continually improve structure chart below). Metrics of Energy Spend against
our energy performance. turnover and/ or man-hours.
The starting point for the Energy
The EU Energy Efficiency Forum has been the compilation Whilst it is too early to draw
Directive 2012 makes energy audits of Sisk’s energy consumption too many conclusions from the
of large businesses mandatory data. This has helped to establish 1st quarter 2015 chart, it is worth
every four years. To comply a baseline of our energy use noting a sharp increase in our plant
with this law we’re adopting the and pinpoint our Significant fuel consumption, which suggests
workings of ISO 50001 with a Energy Users (SEUs). As a result an increase use and reliance on
target for successful certification of analysis they have now been generators. This increase may be
by December 2015. We hope to be identified as diesel for transport, partially explained by the good news
the first construction company in diesel for site plant (mainly of those new projects, but a more
Ireland and the UK to achieve this generators), electricity and gas. accurate picture will emerge as we
accreditation. process the data throughout 2015.
The figures have shown that Sisk’s
total spend on energy in 2014 was
nearly ¤3.8million, and in the first

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