Anticipate needs “Sometimes our clients refer to the idea of sustainability, but without going into detail or saying what they really and trends mean. It is up to us to make sense of their requirement or to guide them in their understanding, in light of the lessons we have learned. It is our responsibility to provide them with our “sustainable prism”, with a proactive and optimistic approach, together with custom solutions perfectly suited to what we know about them, and the specific local contexts in which we operate.” To help ensure the sustainability of our us to improve practices and feed discussion Andrea Della Corte clients’ activities, and address the challenges among our clients and partners. Some of the Head of Sales, Italy posed by climate change and energy issues discussed include energy, environment, transition, we anticipate the associated climate and making sense of the regulatory technical requirements. We have therefore changes with international scope, such as “Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do. Whether it’s for new transport networks, developing decided to showcase our expertise more the Green taxonomy and the CSRD. innovative infrastructure solutions or increasing effectively across our ecosystem so biodiversity, our aim is always to minimise the impacts as to emphasise our expertise and our Major contributions across on the environment and maximise the benefits for understanding of sectoral challenges. the ecosystem our clients and their own users. By combining global This year, SYSTRA became the first engineering expertise with local sensitivities, we are able to provide each and every client with the very best A “test and learn” approach company to be appointed to the presidency of SYSTRA’s expertise in all our projects.” to be shared of the Industry division of the International Mike Muldoon As far as sustainability is concerned, the Association of Public Transport. Our teams gave Business Development Director, “test and learn” approach when applied to a presentation of our expertise at the UITP fair United Kingdom and Ireland our activities involves learning, testing in Barcelona, one of the sector’s flagship events. and continually adapting. This year, SYSTRA We are also involved in a number of working was keen to step up its involvement in groups managed by the UITP focusing on professional associations and international energy transition for rail and bus transport, and working groups, thus contributing to on resilience to climate change. This involvement Digitalising and collective discussions about the role played has resulted in the publication of a report decarbonising at the Asia by sustainability in engineering. Our ethos? on energy transition, and the production of Pacific Rail conference Sharing expertise and methods and identifying a guide on infrastructure resilience. In 2023, SYSTRA took part in the Asia Pacific common methodological platforms enables we took part in more than 50 trade fairs and Rail conference, a major event for the events throughout the world. These included transport sector. Once again, it was the prestigious TransMEA show in Cairo attended by clients and service providers and 3 conferences on tunnels (in Canada, and tackled issues such as decarbonisation France and Colombia). We also contributed and digitalisation. Specialists from Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea engaged to The Infrastructure Podcast. in discussion and debate, reminding one another of the importance of factoring in specific local contexts. Discussions at the SYSTRA stand touched on adapting to climate change and the need participations in for high-level engineering to provide trade shows in 2023 sustainable solutions for tackling climate change and urban congestion. 2023 Sustainabil ity Report | 23