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Lean, green, quality

building machine

We are currently living in a civilizational impasse due to a development model that
is quickly destroying the planet’s natural resources on an unprecedented scale with
negative impacts to people’s quality of life. Nowadays production and consumption
constitute the sustentation for this model, where the focus is maximising profits, with
the understanding that nature is an inexhaustible source of raw material and energy.

Sustainability is the fundamental principle of The pillar “BIM” symbolizes the search for technical
intelligent management, where the expected results innovation throughout the entire life cycle.
are not only the financial side, but the triple bottom
line, where we have three pillars: economic, social The pillar “Life” is a reference to the quality of
and environmental. life of our collaborators and workplace safety. It
encompasses a series of actions that are aimed at
C. Rolim Engenharia has been active in the civil the loyalty of the internal client.
construction industry in Brazil in favour of a more
conscientious world, where the question is: The third pillar is the green philosophy. The
“Is it necessary to destroy in order to build?” Of course predisposition to this green philosophy has its seeds
not. The path to sustainable construction is the in the passion of our president and his collaborators.
unification of “lean” and “green”. So, let us be “lean” In 2009, the program Green Commitment was
and “green” as nature is, because the flora takes created. The program consisted of planting one
from the environment only what it needs, in other tree in a public space for each square meter of
words, every plant is born lean. land acquired, in order to increase our planet’s
afforestation. Even without knowing the concepts
At the centre of our management model we and politics established about the management of
have the Lean Philosophy, based on the Toyota emissions back then, our first initiative was to reduce
Production System. the environmental impact of our activities. This
project was awarded regionally and nationally.

In 2014, we certified the first residential building in
Brazil with LEED for core & Shell, and the first building
LIFE with the energy efficiency label of “Brasil PBE Edifica
nível A”. In 2015, we published our first report within
the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines, and
started to make carbon offsets.

This year, to celebrate the company’s 40th
anniversary and as a way to improve our planet’s
LEAN arborisation, C. Rolim Engenharia is going to plant
40,000 trees in the biggest park in Fortaleza.

To reduce waste and improve the management
BIM GREEN of solid, liquid and gaseous effluents of civil
construction, C. Rolim Engenharia developed a
program of carbon management with established
goals, such as the industrialization of the processes
in construction with technology, reduction of solid
waste, water consumption, energy use, vegetal
suppression and fuel consumption, in addition to
Figure 1 - C. Rolim Engenharia’s management model making all the carbon offsets.