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Promoting worker welfare and dignity in the built environment and energy sector.

Mission

Improve the welfare, dignity, and respect of workers in the built environment and energy sector by gathering leading companies in the sector to work together via an impact partnership.

Our Strategy for Impact

Building Responsibly enables engineering and construction companies to work together to protect worker rights across the industry, even in contexts where the rule of law is limited, by:

Creating and adopting common principles and practices and developing tools to implement them
Collectively engaging workers, clients, governments, civil society, and international organizations
Driving innovation and continuous improvement

Impacts: SDGs 8, 9, 16

How We Work

Develop and adopt industry-led principles and practices that advance worker welfare across the sector.
Create practical tools and implementation guidance to support effective operationalization of these principles.
Strengthen business partner capacity to drive meaningful engagement on worker welfare practices.
Aligning members across definitions of worker welfare issues and data practices
Activate regional chapters to advance BR’s Principles through locally grounded engagement, including in the Gulf.
Collaborate with workers and key stakeholders—including clients, governments, civil society, and international organizations—to strengthen awareness and collective action on worker welfare.

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Who We Work With

ADNOC Logistics & Services

Ali & Sons Holding LLC

Archirodon Group N.V.

Baker Hughes Company

Bechtel Corporation

Chiyoda Corporation

Consolidated Contractors International Company

Emdad LLC

Fluor

JGC Corporation

NMDC Energy PJSC

Saipem SpA

Samsung E&A

Shell plc

Subsea 7 Inc.

Technip Energies

TechnipFMC

Tecnimont S.p.A.

Trojan Construction Group

Wood plc

WorleyParsons

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Board and associate membership is open to all companies in the engineering and construction industry.

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Depth of Experience and Knowledge

Our team consists of global experts across multiple focus areas and industries, bringing a depth of experience in developing sustainable business strategies and solutions.

Claudio Formisano

Global Lead, Human Trafficking and Forced Labor, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

Paris

Global Lead, Human Trafficking and Forced Labor, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

Paris

Claudio leads BSR’s portfolio on addressing modern slavery, human trafficking, and forced labor. He develops guidance for companies seeking to prevent and mitigate human trafficking and forced labor risks and advances policies to scale impact through BSR’s collaborative initiatives like Tech Against Trafficking, the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking, and Building Responsibly.

He brings almost two decades of years of experience in managing multidisciplinary programs on criminal justice, human rights, and security in multilateral settings. Prior to joining BSR, he worked at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), establishing and leading the Secretariat of the UN Inter-Agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT). As a senior advisor to the Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), he oversaw country needs assessments in North America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.

Claudio holds a MA in Advanced International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria and an Executive Certificate from Harvard JFK School of Government in building and leading diverse organizations. He speaks English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

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Alice Pease

Associate Director, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

Paris

Associate Director, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

Paris

Alice works with members across sectors to advance human rights through cross-industry and multi-stakeholder collaboration. She manages several collaborative initiatives, including Building Responsibly, the Global Business Coalition against Human Trafficking (GBCAT), and the Healthcare and Human Rights Forum.

At BSR, Alice has supported members in designing and implementing human rights governance, strategy, and due diligence, with a particular focus on anti-trafficking.

Prior to joining BSR, Alice managed a campaign at the British Parliament on an initiative to strengthen the supply chain transparency requirements of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. Previously, she had policy and research roles with a human rights focus at the Argentine Council for International Relations, the European Commission, and the Italian National Research Council. Alice is the co-author of Crime and Global Justice: The Dynamics of International Punishment, published by Polity in 2018.

Alice holds an MA in International Relations: Latin America—Europe from the University of Bologna and an MA in History and Spanish from the University of Edinburgh. She speaks English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

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