September 22, 2015

To our Stakeholders,

I am content to explicitly confirm Al Ajmi Engineering Consultants commitment towards the UN’s Global Compact initiative and its continued intent to embrace and act on the UN’s Global Compact “10 Principles” in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.

In this second annual Communication on Progress, we elaborate on how we integrated the Global Compact’s principles, that we said we would meet in the last COP submitted, into our policies, philosophy and daily operations.

We bind ourselves to continually share this information with all our stakeholders through various means of communication.

Yours Sincerely,

Wassim Adlouni
CEO

We consider the United Nation's Declaration of Human Rights as a standard of achievement at AEC and accordingly such rights are upheld in our company at all levels.

As proof of our commitment in enforcing the Human Rights policies as articulated in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, we have implemented a new policy section dedicated for Human Rights

To ensure that no one in our company breaches any of the human rights policies, we have a strict program of monitoring which is part of our ISO Certification, hence, that allows any information or action to be passed on through different levels of the company for approval of its relevant senior.

Any violation would be exposed at the its level once undertaken.

At AEC we are always keen in giving all employees their rights without prejudice, regardless of ones background.

As proof of our commitment to providing proper labour rights, our employees have access to their rights as soon as they are employed, furthermore, we have taken measures by including a section dealing with labour rights in our policies and standards.

The way our operations work, especially after putting procedures for ISO Certification, any breach would be caught instantly.

Any breach of these rights and policies would be dealt with immediately following investigating the incident.

Environmental protection is one of the many issues that are always raised in our company. Accordingly a section dedicated towards the environment was implemented in our policies and standards.

To prove AEC's commitment towards the environment and to uphold such commitment on at all company levels, a full policy was dedicated for this section.
Employees are always encouraged to conduct their correspondences as much as possible electronically and accordingly clients and companies we deal with are encouraged to do the same.
Furthermore, we try to design and supervise the construction of environmentally friendly structures and meet LEEDS sustainability criteria.

Different levels in the company have different monitoring criteria.

On the administration level, going paperless is the main goal and accordingly staff with high printing would be investigated for check relevance of printing and if going paperless could be achieved. If so they would be reminded of the companies paperless initiatives.

During project design phase, specification engineers and designers work together to achieve sustainability through use of materials that emit less VOC or are made from recycled material...etc.

During construction supervision, mainly our engineers try to monitor contractor performance and make sure no material wastage is made.

Anti-corruption is one of the main issues we always try to maintain in our company. Our reputation in the industry is what sets us apart.

A dedicated section that deals with anti corruption is implemented in our company to deal with bribery, perjury and all other forms of corruption possible in our industry.

Regular auditing across all levels of the company by random checking as well as a yearly external audit ensures all our actions comply with the policies set forth by our company.