« 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
Our three CSR principles
Principle n°1: social balance
« To be an example in our day-to-day actions for fairness, respect for health, safety and diversity. »
Health, Safety & Environment Training – SOCOTEC (end of 2024)
For site operations teams and Regional Management.
Objectives:
- Raise awareness among teams about HSE challenges in their operations and provide them with the tools and skills needed to comply with regulations and meet client expectations.
- Strengthen autonomy and accountability in managing HSE at the regional level and on construction sites.
Pooling Internal Resources
Objectives:
- This process aims to mobilize internal resources to absorb workload peaks while minimizing systematic reliance on external recruitment.
Challenges:
- Ensure flexibility and adaptability in response to workload fluctuations.
- Foster skill development and strengthen company culture by standardizing practices and improving collaboration.
Principle n°2: respect for the environnement
« Contribute to the preservation of our resources by adopting responsible behaviour.»
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:
- Provide site operations teams with essential information for managing waste in cases of environmental certification or reuse requests during the strip-out phase (providers, pricing, procedures).
- Enable cost estimators to accurately assess waste management costs based on unit price schedules (BPU) provided by certain service providers.
- Help operations teams and cost estimators identify partners capable of meeting recovery targets set by certification requirements and ensuring waste traceability.
- Guide operations teams in selecting the most suitable provider to meet client expectations.
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.
Principle n°3: economic integrity
« Contribute to the dynamism of local ecosystems by maintaining integrity with all stakeholders. »
- Approval of the CIR (Research Tax Credit) by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, confirming our ability to conduct R&D projects on behalf of companies.
- Creation of a Purchasing Department within Korus Group to strengthen procurement management and oversight.
- Deployment of the Responsible Purchasing Charter, designed to structure and formalize our commitments to social and environmental responsibility.
- Implementation of a purchasing reporting system, providing a comprehensive overview of Korus Group’s procurement activities, including partners, projects, and gender distribution among company executives. This tool aims to guide the group’s strategy and recommend local suppliers closest to project sites.
Carbon balance
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:
- Re-use, recycling and eco-design through our 5R approach
- Circular leasing offered by Lbc in collaboration with Leasecom
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!
CSR Governance
- In 2023, the CSR Steering Committee was strengthened to promote the CSR approach within each department and entity of the group. Representatives from Korus Consulting and the Operational Support Division were added.At the same time, we reinforced our collaboration with international teams to prepare for the European CSRD directive.
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CSR Steering Committee
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Executive Committee
Our certifications
Our certificates
A gold medal for our CSR policy
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).
ISO 9001, 45001, 14001 certified (Italy)
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.
- The ISO 9001 standard defines the minimum requirements that an organisation’s Quality Management System must demonstrate to meet in order to guarantee the level of product and service quality that it claims to have with itself and with the market.
- ISO 14001 provides a management framework for the integration of environmental management practices, pursuing environmental protection, pollution prevention, and reduction of energy and resource consumption.
- ISO 45001 ‘Management systems for occupational health and safety – Requirements and guidance for use’ is an international normative reference that redefines the requirements that an occupational safety management system must have. It was created with the aim of providing companies around the world with a scheme to apply and follow in order to make workplaces safer.
Our labels
Member of the United Nations Global Compact
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.
In Germany – DGNB System
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.
Our sponsorship initiatives
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:
- Professional integration and enhance employability at Bac+2/Bac+3 levels.
- Promote the IUTs of Grenoble among businesses and the local ecosystem.
- Help companies develop their employer brand.
- Expand professional networks.
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.
To find out more about our CSR actions
Download our CSR charter 2023