Hill poaches Telford sustainability director

Essex-based housebuilder Hill Group has appointed Andrew Day to the new role of sustainability director at the business in a bid to ensure the delivery of its sustainability strategy.

Andrew Day (pictured right) joins £753m turnover Hill from CBRE-owned east London housebuilder Telford Homes, where he held the same role.

Hill published its first environmental, social and governance (ESG) report last year in which it pledged to make the business net zero carbon in operations, ensure all the homes it built reached net zero operational carbon by 2030, and it land achieved biodiversity net gain.

Hill said in a statement that Day’s “vast experience” would be relied upon to ensure Hill could deliver against the objectives in the report. Telford ranked as the UK’s most sustainable UK housebuilder in the NextGeneration Sustainability Benchmark Report for 2021 and 2022.

Prior to working at Telford, Andrew was divisional board director for architecture, design and sustainability for Countryside. He also sits on the Future Homes Hub Oversight Group, the NHBC Foundation Expert Panel and he chairs the Supply Chain Sustainability School Wellbeing Group.

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Andy Hill, Group chief executive of The Hill Group said his appointment would ensure that Hill’s projected growth – it is targeting a doubling of turnover by 2025 – was done in a sustainable way. “Andrew brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our senior leadership team and will make a major contribution to our ESG delivery.

“We have ambitious plans for growing the size of our business but it is vital that we do so in a sustainable way that makes a positive social impact and enhances the natural environment. I’m very confident that Andrew will enable us to do just that.”