Corporate social responsibility is getting stronger and stronger at FCC with the Board of Directors' approval of FCC's Third CSR Master Plan, which addresses the 2012-2012 period.

The new Master Plan's design pivots on the fact that the world population is expected to grow over the next decade and shift toward cities. As a consequence, there will be new environmental and social demands that will have to be answered.

Infrastructure, water, waste and energy (FCC's core business) will play a leading role in the orderly development of cities in the decade to come.
The new Master Plan will make it possible to strengthen the company's capabilities and its employees' skills, to stay ahead of the challenges and opportunities that will appear as the cities of the future develop and to provide a comprehensive, sustainable response to those selfsame challenges and opportunities.

Three Tent Poles

The three basic arguments of the Third Master Plan are:

Citizen connection through dialogue with city opinion makers, boosting of sustainability through employees themselves, evaluation and measurement of the positive impact of FCC's services for consumer communities and volunteering.

Smart services, creating interdisciplinary working and research groups so that FCC can stay a jump ahead of cities' future needs and minimize its carbon footprint.

Exemplary behaviour, committed to integrity, to encouraging CSR in FCC's supplier chain, to improving employees' career development, health and safety and to integrating disadvantaged collectives.

Principles as a Tool

FCC and the Board of Directors itself foster certain patterns of behaviour that are part and parcel of FCC's century-old culture and its principles: things done right, integrity, efficiency and closeness.