« Korus Group is built around strong values that guide our actions as responsible entrepreneurs and our behaviour.
The Group shares with its managers and employees
the desire to promote its values. Together, we reaffirm the need to embody them by acting in an exemplary manner. Indeed, the success of our company will only be sustainable if we clearly affirm our requirements as an ethical and responsible company.
CSR is defined as the way companies adapt, integrating social, environmental and economic concerns into their values, decision-making and strategy to improve their performance.
In this context, Korus Group has undertaken the drafting of this Charter so that it becomes a reference for everyone in terms of individual or collective behaviour and a guide for our daily actions enabling us to embody our values.
We are determined to make this Charter a unifying issue, and to share it with the men and women who join our Group with the same aspirations. »
Charles MARCOLIN, President and Founder of Korus Group
Health, Safety & Environment Training – SOCOTEC (end of 2024)
For site operations teams and Regional Management.
Objectives:
Pooling Internal Resources
Objectives:
Challenges:
Optimization of Waste Management on Construction Sites
Implementation of a Waste Management Operating Procedure (MODOP)
Selection of specialized partners capable of supporting waste management based on their geographical coverage and service offerings.
Objectives:
Deployment of NOOCO
NOOCO evaluates a project’s carbon footprint and identifies optimization levers.
An Offer Committed to the Environment
Korus Consulting has developed an environmental offering for companies looking to integrate their ecological ambitions into the redesign of their workspaces.
Designed to support every stage of the project, this offer helps define environmental objectives, analyze various layout scenarios based on their economic, social, and environmental performance, and integrate eco-design at the core of spaces.
Korus Consulting also works closely with employees to co-design spaces and raise awareness of best practices, both in building design and everyday usage.
Our low-carbon approach:
In order to reduce its carbon footprint, Korus Group has structured a roadmap in line with the objectives of Paris. It aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. This roadmap involves reducing all our emissions (scopes 1, 2 and 3), as well as actively participating in carbon sequestration or reduction projects, in order to generate a positive environmental impact.
Here are a few examples of the actions we have taken:
Our carbon footprint:
Since 2021 we carry out an annual carbon footprint assessment (scope 1 including direct emissions and scope 2 including indirect emissions) of our activities in France. In 2024, we reduced our energy consumption by 37% compared to 2021, the equivalent of saving 156 Paris-New York flights!
To ensure transparency in its CSR approach, Korus Group underwent the rigorous evaluation criteria of the international platform EcoVadis. With an overall score of 74/100, it was awarded the gold medal. This result places the company in the top 5% of businesses evaluated by EcoVadis over the past twelve months (95th percentile or higher).
Since 2019, we have had our Quality policy certified and hold the ISO 9001 certification. The ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certifications were obtained in May 2023. With the acquisition of the ISO 14001 certification, we commit to defining key performance indicators to achieve and implementing necessary actions within our internal processes to meet this objective.
Since 2021, Korus Group has been a supporter of the Global Compact, responding to the call for companies around the world to align their practices and strategies with Ten Principles, derived from the fundamental texts of the United Nations, in the areas of human rights, labour law, the environment and anti-corruption.
DGNB, the German Council for Sustainable Building, is a non-profit organisation based in Stuttgart. Since its foundation in 2007, DGNB has been committed to the development of liveable buildings and urban neighbourhoods. Its main objective is to support changes in the construction and real estate market through an understanding of responsible and sustainable issues.
The Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) Foundation works for a human and responsible management, to create value respectful of the ambitions of each person and the world in which we live. The projects are based on high-level applied research to anticipate the major challenges of tomorrow. The GEM Foundation launches innovative actions to address current issues. Charles Marcolin, President and Founder of Korus Group, is its President. The collaboration between GEM and Korus Group commenced in 2018 with the creation of the TIM Lab, a space dedicated to discovery through experimentation of the different stages of the innovation process. “As a manager, I am well placed to know: we need to oxygenate our minds and open ourselves up to new themes. As for the researchers in the chairs, they have the ability to ‘land’ their work on concrete and pragmatic issues,” explains Charles Marcolin.
Since its creation in 2015 by the IUTs of Grenoble, the Club des Entreprises has been chaired by Charles Marcolin. The Club’s goal is to break down barriers between the world of education and entrepreneurship, convinced that learning takes place “throughout our lifetime.”
The Club’s mission:
Under the leadership of its President, Charles Marcolin, the Club strives to build bridges between universities and the businesses that will shape the professionals of tomorrow, based on the following pillars:
Learning: Training future professionals with care, developing their skills, passing on experience, values, and industry norms, while harnessing the energy of youth to co-create the world of tomorrow.
Soft skills and values: Leading by example to instill a strong work ethic, commitment, respect, humility, and consideration for others, ensuring their development, well-being, and health.
We support the GHW association, which aims to combat sudden adult death by cardiac arrest, by raising public awareness of life-saving techniques and supporting scientific research into heart health.
Download our CSR charter 2023