DAW Sustainability Advisory Board

Ober-Ramstadt, 23rd November 2012 (DAW) – OBER RAMSTADT. As one of the first companies in the field the Deutsche Amphibolin-Werke (DAW) established an external Sustainability Advisory Board under the chairmanship of DAW Chairman of the Managing Board, Dr. Ralf Murjahn in September 2010. The panel advises the building paints manufacturer with regard to the positioning and further development of the Group's own sustainability strategy. The external Sustainability Advisory Board meets every six months and its posts are filled every two years by renowned persons from the sectors of architecture, painting and decorating companies and commercial life. On 23rd November 2012 the DAW Sustainability Advisory Board (SAB) met for its latest meeting with new members in Ober-Ramstadt to interchange ideas and opinions on topics which included sustainable construction, innovative products and energy efficiency. The board members include Prof. Dipl.-Ing. M.Sc. Econ. Manfred Hegger (Chair of Design and Energy Efficient Construction at the Technical University Darmstadt), Tom Nietiedt (Director of the Nietiedt Group from Wilhelmshaven) as well as Prof. Marcus Wagner (Chair of Corporate Foundation and Growth at the University of Würzburg). "Construction offers one of the greatest potentials for sustainable shaping of the environment. We must therefore increase our efforts towards increasing material and energy efficiency in the use of buildings. It is only in this way that we can use resources and improve the durability of buildings, reduce environmental effects and consequently obtain lasting values," said Prof. Hegger, who has also been President of the DGNB, the German Sustainable Building Council, since 2010. "Due to our years of business co-operation with the DAW Group, it is my pleasure and honour to be able to make available to the Sustainability Board new experience in the field of sustainability. Through our own entrepreneurial activity I am deeply convinced that business activity and sustainable behaviour in the sense of people, nature and the environment can be brought into harmony and pay off in the medium and long term," explained Nietiedt, whose group of companies has specialised in the fields of surface techniques, painting and decorating operations, scaffold construction, insulation technology and plastering. "I am delighted to belong to the DAW Sustainability Advisory Board. This is because it exemplarily combines the claim of sustainability leadership for an internationally active medium-sized company with an outsider's view from practice and science," points out Professor Dr. Marcus Wagner, who is one of the most research-intensive business economists in Germany. Within DAW the internal "Sustainability" Project Group is responsible for the continuous on-going development and the implementation of the targets and measures in the sustainability sector. The activities are co-ordinated by the DAW Sustainability Manager, Bettina Klump-Bickert. In 2011, as a sustainable company, DAW was awarded the Silver Medal from the Consumer Initiative. In May 2012 DAW won the n-tv medium-sized company prize "Hidden Champion" in the Sustainability category.