This section looks at our key environmental impacts and how we sought to reduce them in 2019.
Our ambitions
To reduce our carbon footprint, maintain carbon neutrality and work towards de-coupling carbon emissions from business growth
To reduce the intensity of construction waste and achieve zero waste to landfill
Our headline targets
To reduce carbon intensity by 50% by 2020 (compared with 2010)
To reduce construction waste intensity by 60% by 2020 (compared with 2012)
Our 2019 achievements
- Reduced our carbon emissions (relative to turnover) by 5% between 2018 and 2019 and by 61% since 2010, further exceeding our end-2020 50% reduction target
- By year-end all our sites and offices (where we are responsible for energy procurement) were powered with 100% natural renewable electricity
- Carbon neutral for the seventh year running
- Paid out £43k in green bonuses to our people choosing low emissions cars
- Increased the choice of electric and hybrid vehicle models on our company car list
- Re-certified to the Carbon Trust Standard and named best in sector